Noun : a chunk of bread; a chunk of firewood. ,Rent is a real chunk out of my pay. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : My tires have started to chunk. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : chunking pebbles at the barn door. From Dictionary.com.
If students have developed some proficiency with phonemes, they can begin chunking unfamiliar words. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Strategies For Struggling Readers « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
Overload can be reduced by grouping items/steps what Itiel calls 'chunking'. From Wordnik.com. [The science of learning] Reference
Dr BB, it’s called chunking, and it’s 7 plus or minus 2. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Desperation Sets In] Reference
I also do a combination of these, but I alternate between blocking off whole days/half days and "chunking" all the work. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
"In the fifth, I was always going to need a break or two with the way I was kind of chunking my serve around," admitted the American. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
"chunking" of larger sets of items four or fewer smaller sets. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
This relieved him so that he returned to his occupation of "chunking" the fire, adding, "When women sets de mines on. From Wordnik.com. ["George Washington's" Last Duel 1891] Reference
The following is a sample of chunking the pause-unit. From Wordnik.com. [On Obama's victory style] Reference
What we are best at is heuristics: or chunking of data. From Wordnik.com. [Social definitions of racism] Reference
Dotes was doing sit-ups, chunking them out like a machine. From Wordnik.com. [Old Tin Sorrows]
The chunking of larger projects into smaller pieces is vital. From Wordnik.com. [How to Hold Yourself Accountable As a Writer | Write to Done] Reference
Doesn't say anything about chunking your shoes at people, though. From Wordnik.com. [RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference
And no sooner than I said that, I started chunking pool balls at them. From Wordnik.com. [death from above | clusterflock] Reference
My constructivist-based beliefs scream no to chunking and simplifying. From Wordnik.com. [Ten rules of thumb] Reference
Eagerly, I downed half of it to the chunking sound of metal defenses engaging. From Wordnik.com. [Fatal Circle] Reference
IMO I would say that proper chunking and concept alignment would take precedence. From Wordnik.com. [Brain rules #4] Reference
A common decoding strategy that is taught to struggling readers is called chunking. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Strategies For Struggling Readers « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
But this might involve explicitly chunking "the economy" into connected smaller economies. From Wordnik.com. [Is Inflation Fun?] Reference
He shoved her head to the ground as more gunfire rang out, chunking out splinters of wood. From Wordnik.com. [Harvest] Reference
Digitisation by its nature creates more ‘chunking’ opportunities the selling of fragments. From Wordnik.com. [Sampling, Chunking, Permissions and Whose Line is it anyway?] Reference
Grandfather-to-be Jim Carrey is chunking up for his role as Curly in 'The Three Stooges' movie. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol (3D) -- Don't Get Scrooged] Reference
When politicians yelp this loud it generally means you're chunking rocks in the right direction. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: The Path to 9/11] Reference
Since then my vomit reflex has been chunking like a nickel slot machine at a Seniors Only casino. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Goeglein: Finding My Me-Place] Reference
Several times, I had the feeling that I was chunking my thoughts like a good technical communicator. From Wordnik.com. [The Frustrating Side of Podcast Listening] Reference
The web is largely a page-based medium and chunking stuff down to read watch on the screen makes sense. From Wordnik.com. [Page turners? Yes please.] Reference
We like the term ‘native chunking’ and only hope that we all have a common understanding of its meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Chunking] Reference
The package is great for re-purposing the outputs of presentations/lectures and chunking this up into modules. From Wordnik.com. [Adobe Presenter 7 still a Breeze to use] Reference
I found that chunking them up and soaking the bits in salt and other random ingredients make great catfish bait. From Wordnik.com. [There is a local warm water discharge from a power plant that I fish at.] Reference
I also talk about chunking to my classes and incorporate the practice into my teaching and modeling of note taking. From Wordnik.com. [Wise words on time management from student planning wikis - 9th grade] Reference
Participants showed evidence of using methods of estimation and chunking to guess at quantities in larger set sizes. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PIRAHA AND WHORF.] Reference
Turns out it takes 2 minutes in a boiling bath and then drying and quick freezing - all this after peeling and chunking. From Wordnik.com. [Growing winter vegetables] Reference
It actually also contains all the data from the server manifest, but additionally all the chunking or “fragment” information. From Wordnik.com. [ginger's thoughts » Manifests for exposing the structure of a Composite Media Resource] Reference
The headlamps of the children danced through the reeds and cattails, and I could hear their paddles chunking loudly in the water. From Wordnik.com. [Heaven’s Prisoners] Reference
Some people advocate aggression, "to act like a wolverine and go at" a bear, even to the point of shouting and chunking rocks at it!. From Wordnik.com. [Being Bear Aware] Reference
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