English-German translations for chunk

• Stück das
  Wenn wir nämlich dazu kämen, die Gesetzgebung für den öffentlichen Personennahverkehr endlich voranzubringen, hätten wir ein konkretes Stück der Arbeit von Parlament und Rat geleistet. If we were actually to manage to at last make some progress with the legislation on local public transport, we would have done a substantial chunk of Parliament's and the Council's work.
• Abschnitt der
• Brocken
• Chunk
• Teil der
  Das ist ein beträchtlicher Teil der Steuerbemessungsgrundlage. That is a huge chunk of the tax base.
  Ein großer Teil der praktischen Nutzung des Weltraums unterliegt bereits der Kontrolle der Märkte, was meines Erachtens gefährlich ist. A large chunk of the practical applications involving space is already controlled by the market, and I feel that this is dangerous.
  Seit Kurzem wollen sich Drittländer, insbesondere aus Asien, einen großen Teil vom lukrativen Thunfisch-Markt sichern. Third countries, particularly those in Asia, have recently sought to secure for themselves a major chunk of the tuna market, which is a lucrative one.

Definition of chunk

• A part of something that has been separated
• A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular
• A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster
• A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. ; a block
• A segment of a comedian's performance
• To break into large pieces or chunks
• To throw

Examples

• The statue broke into chunks.
• a chunk of granite
• examples of chunks would include "in accordance with", "the results of", and "so far"

Related words

• chunky
• chunder
• chunter
• Changchun
• Taichung
• Chungyuan
• Fälschung
• Verfälschung
• metrichundreweight