junk
part of speech
noun (junk); verb (junk, junks, junked, junking — informal, to throw away); noun (a junk, junks — a Chinese sailing boat)
meaning for a pupil
1) Junk is old things that are not wanted, are broken or have no use. tree →
2) Junk food is food with lots of sugar, salt or fat and little goodness. tree →
3) Junk mail is advertising you did not ask for, on paper or by email. tree →
4) A junk is also a kind of wooden sailing boat from China. tree →
5) A junk can also mean a thick lump or chunk of food, such as a piece of bread. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths, a word of the story; sometimes things sold or thrown away (take away), or junk food priced. In everyday life: clearing junk out of the garage, a junk shop, junk mail. In health, too much junk food is bad for you. In safety: junk email can be a scam, do not click its links. Phrases: «junk food», «junk mail», «junk shop», «full of junk».
examples
- He sold his junk for 20 dollars. tree →
- They took 3 bags of junk to the dump. tree →
- Junk food costs 4 dollars. tree →
- The garage is full of old junk. tree →
- Eating too much junk food is bad for your teeth. tree →
- Mum deletes the junk mail without opening it. tree →
- We found an old clock in a junk shop. tree →
- A junk sailed slowly across the harbour. tree →
- So she took Jack into the kitchen, and gave him a junk of bread and cheese and a jug of milk. tree →
note
Uncountable when it means rubbish: «a lot of junk», not «junks». Usually no clue; throwing junk away takes away, selling it brings money in.
In the corpora
- Spam filters use AI to spot junk and scam emails, but some real emails end up in the spam folder too.
- One treat meal to celebrate is fine, but sport doesn't cancel out a huge pile of junk food.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «junk» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.