JUNK
Dictionary entry overview: What does junk mean?
• JUNK (noun)
The noun JUNK has 2 senses:
1. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
2. any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
Familiarity information: JUNK used as a noun is rare.
• JUNK (verb)
The verb JUNK has 1 sense:
1. dispose of (something useless or old)
Familiarity information: JUNK used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• JUNK (noun)
Meaning:
The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
debris; detritus; junk; rubble; dust
Hypernyms ("junk" is a kind of...):
rubbish; scrap; trash (worthless material that is to be disposed of)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "junk"):
slack (dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve)
Meaning:
Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("junk" is a kind of...):
boat (a small vessel for travel on water)
Meronyms (parts of "junk"):
lug; lugsail (a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast)
• JUNK (verb)
Meaning:
Dispose of (something useless or old)
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
junk; scrap; trash
Context examples:
trash these old chairs / junk an old car / scrap your old computer
Hypernyms (to "junk" is one way to...):
cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out (throw or cast away)
Sentence frame:
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