(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.
Toss
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
(v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
(v. t.) To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
(v. t.) To agitate; to make restless.
(v. t.) Hence, to try; to harass.
(v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
(v. i.) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
(v. i.) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
(n.) A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
(n.) A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(2) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(3) "We realise that it's an election time and these issues are tossed back and forth, but regardless of who leads Australia, we will look to them for action."
(4) The jury concluded Duggan had tossed the gun away and was not holding a weapon when surrounded by police marksmen.
(5) For every drop shot that was loose, lazy and tossed away a point, there was another that smacked of insouciant brilliance.
(6) Any hint of Charlotte as a sexual being is tossed on to the historical furnace.
(7) Hoodies don't vote, they've realised it's pointless, that whoever gets elected will just be a different shade of the "we don't give a toss about you" party.
(8) In one email, an aide suggests she should “toss a wrench at someone”.
(9) Campbell got the parents to play a simple game in which one team tried to flip some cones over one way and the other to flip them the other way – to illustrate the point that when parents are not united in their approach, children will feel like the cones being tossed about.
(10) Kazakhstan win the toss and the warring cheersquads go quiet for now.
(11) Their appetite for double entendres on Bake Off - which prompted a complaint to the BBC’s Points of View that they get “smuttier and smuttier, and it is totally unnecessary” - was already evident at Light Lunch when word came down from on high at Channel 4 that there were too many references to “tossing a salad”.
(12) I was having some tapas and a large bottle of wine as I was flicking through Facebook and I said: ‘Who should I nominate?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jennifer Mitchell, law student Labour & Liverpool: Jennifer Mitchell interview After tossing about some names, her boyfriend suggested her father.
(13) But bewilderment quickly turned to horror after the gunman tossed two gas canisters into the room and began firing, spraying the audience with bullets.
(14) 800g veal shoulder, cut into 4cm dice 1 tbsp plain flour Salt and black pepper 30g unsalted butter 60ml olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 200ml dry white wine 8 large sage leaves Shaved skin of 1 lemon, plus 3 tbsp lemon juice 1 550g head puntarelle (or 2 heads white chicory, cut widthways into 3cm-long segments) 1 small celeriac, peeled and chopped into 2cm dice (500g net weight) 200g pancetta, cut into 1cm dice 20g capers For the salad 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed 1 anchovy fillet, finely chopped 2 tsp red-wine vinegar 2 tbsp olive oil 1 white chicory, cut in half lengthways and then into long, 0.5cm thick wedges (or the rest of the puntarelle, if using) 80g rocket Toss the veal in flour seasoned with a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper, until evenly coated, then tap off any excess.
(15) 10.32am BST The toss Cook has won it, and England are going to have a bowl.
(16) One throwaway moment with him tossing a hat into a van, I thought, well, nothing much we can do with that, but Will made it work beautifully.
(17) Mount Sinai is so overstretched they couldn’t give a toss either way.
(18) I think retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy.” The idea to march was first tossed around on a Reddit thread in January.
(19) Photograph: Franck Allais and Ed Johns for the Guardian Flatbread, baked golden and crispy, tossed in a light salad and dressing.
(20) You could toss a mullet net over any park bench between Key West and Pensacola and drag in two people who’d be more inspiring.