Chunks as frames
Some chunks don’t look complete (I don’t know if, in the middle of). These usually help make up or frame sentences: …
chunk
verb[ T ]
 sports specializeduk /tʃʌŋk/ us /tʃʌŋk/
in golf, to hit a ball badly by hitting the ground behind it:
He was forever chunking chip shots around the greens.
At the next hole he went for the green and chunked his ball into the water.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Golf
approach shot
best ball
better ball
bogey
bogie
caddy
carry
chip
dogleg
hazard
hole
hole out
lay someone up
long game
match play
rough
tap
twosome
wedge
yip

chunk | American Dictionary

chunk
noun[ C ]
us/tʃʌŋk/
a thick piece or lump:
A large chunk of plaster crashed down from the ceiling.
infml A chunk is a large part of something:
Her books must be read in chunks to follow the plot.

Examples of chunk

chunk
The lexicalized concepts in our analysis are chunks of knowledge that, when accumulated by the design team, may form a fully developed design concept.
Content is often either fully replicated at a peer or is split into chunks and stored over m peers.
The initial generic grammars for chunking and clause recognition are designed to cover the most frequent phenomena in a restrictive sense.
Astructure analysis is concerned with the recognition of argumental dependencies between both chunks and clauses.
Chunking serves to make the sentence representation more compact by deleting all non-heads of chunks.
In our case, chunks are also the sentence fragments for which the spans are not influenced by any verbal syntactic projection.
There are here two "chunks" of talk that are in a relationship of close dependence to each other.
She focuses on schemata: units of autobiographical events which become closed chunks of information through their frequent retelling, and which incorporate bound links.
A total of 5750 noun chunks were classified.
Figure 4(b) suggests that larger chunks, defined at the clause-level, enable more accurate inference regarding the compositionality of translations in this parallel corpus.
Two levels of particular importance are chunks and simplex clauses.
Cohesion constraints additionally set all alignment positions between unanchored chunks to zero (light grey).
Information from statistical chunkers and parsers could also be introduced to substitute current verb detection rules or include features based on chunks.
The pianist is encouraged to experiment with the timing with chunks of 30 seconds of music to determine how the piano part flows.
In the constructivist model, forms such as he's and that's would be expected to often be learned as ' chunks ', or lexically specific constructions.
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Collocations withchunk

chunk

These are words often used in combination with chunk.

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big chunk
That is a bigchunk of time.
chunk of ice
You can hear it, because when a huge chunk of ice falls off, it sounds like a clap of thunder.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
chunk of land
We are people with a problem, not just a chunkofland for politicians to discuss.
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