(n.) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.
(n.) Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
(n.) Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.
(n.) Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
(n.) A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.
Example Sentences:
(1) We propose that "junk" DNA in eucaryotes functions to maintain total DNA at an optimum concentration.
(2) People are eating a lot of junk food and rejecting traditional food,” he told the BBC .
(3) Russia’s credit rating has been downgraded to junk status for the first time in a decade due to the collapsing oil price, the tumbling value of the rouble and sanctions imposed because of its intervention in Ukraine.
(4) ITV's investment in children's programming has also been damaged by the ban on advertising junk food.
(5) At half-time time Pardew acted, junking his entire left side, bringing on Martin Kelly and Bakary Sako.
(6) • The following correction was published on 5 February 2012: "Downgrades, debt and junk: key questions about the eurozone crisis answered" (Business), said: "The [Eurozone financial stability facility] fund has already committed large sums to Greece, Ireland and Portugal and will need to raise more money should Italy and Spain need the same kind of help."
(7) Myths that suggest that the obese are inactive, eat differently, or eat more junk food suggest that obese individuals are socially deviant and justifies the intense discrimination directed against them.
(8) Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as "junk" are in fact crucial to the way our genome works, an international team of researchers said on Wednesday.
(9) These include a mechanism to assess which shows have an "above average" appeal to under-16s and therefore cannot run any junk food ads.
(10) Russia is spending 2.3tn roubles (£22bn) to shore up its economy as sanctions bite and after its debt was downgraded to junk.
(11) Conservatives blame the problems of sexual violence on western values, immodest dress or even on the over-consumption of junk food.
(12) And who is leading the charge to junk our membership of the single market?
(13) For each trial of the DNMS task, two stimuli were randomly selected from a pool of 250 small "junk" objects; one member of the pair was designated as the sample.
(14) The Real Junk Food Project , a charity which operates a chain of “pay as you feel” cafés using surplus food, now has two Sharehouse food stores connected to its operations in Leeds and Sheffield.
(15) Numerous documents prove that executives at leading banks, credit agencies, and mortgage brokers were falsely touting assets as sound that knew were junk: the very definition of fraud.
(16) Spain defied renewed pressure to accept an international bailout on Thursday, a stance that could last for several more weeks or even months despite the humiliation of having its credit rating cut to near junk status.
(17) Stock markets around the world plunged today after Standard & Poor's cut Greece's credit rating to junk status and downgraded its view of Portugal in the clearest evidence yet that the European sovereign debt crisis is spreading.
(18) Any evidence of a fresh split among European policymakers will increase anxiety in the financial markets, which were rattled on Wednesday by news that ratings agency Moody's had downgraded Portugal's debt to junk status.
(19) Dr Aseem Malhotra, an NHS cardiologist who campaigns against junk food, said the study "adds further fuel to the fire that sugar really is the 'silent killer' and is independent of body weight".
(20) The attack happened in a normal part of Delhi, at 9pm and no one can possibly allege that she was behaving in a way that was 'not in keeping with Indian traditions' and all that junk," Gupta said.
Sunk
Definition:
(imp.) of Sink
(p. p.) of Sink
() imp. & p. p. of Sink.
Example Sentences:
(1) When we trained on it, my heart sunk,” Coleman said after his side began their Euro 2016 campaign with a nervous victory.
(2) 5 reconstructions of the posterior bony canal wall were moderately sunk in.
(3) In the sixth frame of the evening he sunk a magnificent long red and careered on his way to a 131 clearance to extend his lead in the match to 9-5.
(4) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
(5) A later investigation suggests the boat was sunk by a torpedo launched from a North Korean submarine.
(6) On the left, meanwhile, we feel our way towards a progressive alliance much more timidly, even when we know we’re sunk without it.
(7) There's little question that the objections to its pro-torture depictions and CIA propaganda were what sunk the film.
(8) In fact Miliband was more Blairite than Blair in opposing Cameron’s referendum wheeze, since Blair had conceded the principle over the EU’s aborted constitution, sunk by French and Dutch voters in 2005 who gave him a get-out card.
(9) He failed to recover from a disappointing opening eight holes and on the par-five 9th Woods slightly overshot the green with his second shot, sending his chip from the first cut well left of the pin.He sunk the remaining putt to card his first birdie of the day but then pulled his tee shot at the 10th well left and played the back nine one over par, starting with two bogeys before clawing back to finish tied for sixth place.
(10) Chinese investors have sunk about $38bn (£29bn) into everything from prime London real estate to banks and football clubs since 2005, according to figures from the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation.
(11) The teams were tied, 43 each at the half, and there was virtually nothing to separate them at the three-quarter mark, either: San Antonio entered the final 12 minutes protecting a one-point advantage despite a purple patch from James, who sunk two three-pointers in a minute.
(12) Suárez was a target for photographers after he sunk his teeth into the Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic in April, an act that resulted in a 10-match ban from the Football Association and, he has now confirmed, prompted him to reconsider his future in English football.
(13) It would be foolish for Facebook, which only started in 2004, to try to go up against that sunk cost.
(14) The night before the vessel, al-Awda ("The Return") was due to sail, it was blown up and sunk in Limassol harbour, Cyprus — with no loss of life or political embarrassment.
(15) In supermarkets, profitability has sunk from [margins of] 5% to 2% in five years and now we face significant new cost pressure.
(16) In antimicrobial test, each sample (one fourth inch in diameter) sunk in the broth that had been innoculated with periodontopathic bacteria showed growth inhibitory activity after 48 hr anaerobic incubation.
(17) It was a tough kick, we weighed up the options, we wanted to go for the win, the two driving mauls before we made some good ground and we thought if we got in a good position we could go for a win.” Wales are bobbing in pool of death while England are not sunk just yet | Eddie Butler Read more So it goes.
(18) Submarine danger: I don't think there will be much of that, they are concentrating on the invasion scheme, and besides, no passenger ship has been sunk for ages.
(19) Two tibial components have sunk and have been revised at The London Hospital.
(20) "It hasn't quite sunk in yet," Lewis said afterwards.