What (who) is junk - definition
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Junk (disambiguation); Piece of junk; Junk (album)
Junk
·noun Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
II. Junk ·noun Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, ·etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.
III. Junk ·noun A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. ·see Chunk.
IV. Junk ·noun 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.
V. Junk ·noun 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.
junk
(junks, junking, junked)
1.
Junk is old and used goods that have little value and that you do not want any more.
What are you going to do with all that junk, Larry?
N-UNCOUNT: oft N n
2.
If you junk something, you get rid of it or stop using it. (INFORMAL)
Consumers will not have to junk their old cassettes to use the new format...
= ditch, jettison
VERB: V n
junk
junk1
¦ noun
1. informal useless or worthless articles.
nonsense.
2. informal heroin.
3. the lump of oily fibrous tissue in a sperm whale's head, containing spermaceti.
¦ verb informal discard unceremoniously.
Origin
ME (denoting an old or inferior rope): of unknown origin.
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junk2
¦ noun a flat-bottomed sailing vessel with a prominent stem, used in China and the East Indies.
Origin
C16: from obs. Fr. juncque or Port. junco, from Malay jong, reinforced by Du. jonk.
Pronunciation examples for junk
1. Junk food?
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2. Junk science.
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3. junk DNA.
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4. is junk.
The Social Brain and The Workplace _ Matthew Lieberman _ Talks at Google
5. The junk food industry
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Examples of use of junk
1. I am fed up of junk calls, junk post and junk e–mails.
2. Kitts feels Dean‘s power 1 Wiener dogs race 2 Some ‘junk‘ isn‘t junk 3 Snap decision 4 Mrs.
3. Also junk mail, flyers, brochures and directories.
4. The junk food ads will be banned and the children will be left with all the debt buster loan advertisements to contend with, the world‘s gone mad! – Aj, UK Junk food advertising props up and funds junk children‘s TV programs.
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