Definitions for junk
dʒʌŋkjunk

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritusnoun

   the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

2. junkverb

   any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails

3. trash, junk, scrapverb

   dispose of (something useless or old)

   "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer"

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Junknoun

   Hence: Something worthless, or only worth its value as recyclable scrap.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Junk

   Junk is a song written by English musician Paul McCartney and released on his debut studio album McCartney (1970). He wrote the song in 1968 with the Beatles while the group were studying Transcendental Meditation in India. After the band's return from India, he recorded the song as a demo at Kinfauns, George Harrison's home, before sessions for The Beatles (also known as "the White Album") took place. It was ultimately passed over for inclusion on The Beatles and Abbey Road in 1969. After the group's break-up, McCartney recorded the song for inclusion on McCartney. The lyrics describe various items in a junkyard. A slightly longer, instrumental version of the song, titled "Singalong Junk", also appears on the album.

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1. junk

   Junk refers to old or discarded items that are considered useless or of little value. It can also refer to a type of unhealthy food that is quick to prepare and consume, but has low nutritional value. In the financial sector, it refers to high-risk bonds with low credit ratings. In terms of a junk boat, it's a type of Chinese sailing ship. Junk can also refer to a type of mail typically categorized as unwanted or unsolicited advertising.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Junknoun

   a fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk

2. Junknoun

   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

3. Junknoun

   old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers

4. Junknoun

   hard salted beef supplied to ships

5. Junknoun

   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

6. Etymology: [Pg. junco; cf. Jav. & Malay jong, ajong, Chin. chwan.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Junk

   A junk is an ancient Chinese sailing vessel/ship design still in use today. Junks may have developed from very early bamboo rafts which had a high stern. Cromagnon cave paintings on the Indo China coast show junk shaped doublehull vessels. Junks were developed during the Han Dynasty and were used as seagoing vessels as early as the 2nd century AD. They evolved in the later dynasties, and were used throughout Asia for extensive ocean voyages. They were found, and in lesser numbers are still found, throughout South-East Asia and India, but primarily in China, perhaps most famously in Hong Kong. Found more broadly today is a growing number of modern recreational junk-rigged sailboats. The term junk may be used to cover many kinds of boat—ocean-going, cargo-carrying, pleasure boats, live-aboards. They vary greatly in size and there are significant regional variations in the type of rig. To Western eyes, however, they all appear to resemble one another due to their most significant shared feature, their fully battened sails.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Junk

   jungk, n. a Chinese vessel, with high forecastle and poop, sometimes large and three-masted. [Port. junco—Chinese chw‛an, a boat.]

2. Junk

   jungk, n. pieces of old cordage, used for making mats, &c., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for the seams of ships: salt meat supplied to vessels for long voyages, so called because it becomes as hard as old rope.—ns. Junk′-deal′er, Junk′man, a dealer in junk; Junk′-ring, a metal ring confining a fibrous piston-packing; Junk′-shop, a place where junk is bought and sold. [L. juncus, a rush.]

3. Junk

   jungk, n. a thick piece, chunk. [Chunk.]

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Junk

   a Chinese boat with a flat bottom, a square prow, a high stern, and a pole for mast.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. junk

   The Chinese junk is the largest vessel built by that nation, and at one period exceeding in tonnage any war-vessels then possessed by England. The extreme beam is one-third from the stern; it shows no stem, it being chamfered off. The bow on deck is square, over which the anchors slide fore and aft. Having no keel, and being very full at the stern, a huge rudder is suspended, which at sea is lowered below the depth of the bottom. The masts are immense, in one piece. The cane sails are lug and heavy. The hull is divided into water-tight compartments, like tanks.--Junk is also any remnants or pieces of old cable, or condemned rope, cut into small portions for the purpose of making points, mats, swabs, gaskets, sinnet, oakum, and the like (which see). Also, a dense cellular tissue in the head of the sperm-whale, infiltrated with spermaceti. Also, salt beef, as tough to the teeth as bits of rope, whence the epithet.

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1. junk

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Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Junk

   A seaman’s term for rope ends and also the salt beef served out on board ship. The word is derived from the Latin Juncus, a bulrush, out of which ropes were anciently made. In the second sense of the term the toughness of the meat is sarcastically implied.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. JUNK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Junk is ranked #22856 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Junk surname appeared 1,120 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Junk.
   
   95.6% or 1,071 total occurrences were White.
   1.6% or 18 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.2% or 14 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 10 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Discard

How to pronounce junk?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of junk in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of junk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of junk in a Sentence

1. David Sinclair:

   It’s not junk, it’s not damage that causes us to get old, we believe it’s a loss of information — a loss in the cell’s ability to read its original DNA so it forgets how to function — in much the same way an old computer may develop corrupted software. I call it the information theory of aging.

2. Gregory Chertok:

   ‘I’d like to cut down on junk food a little bit,’ is a goal more likely to be accomplished than ‘I’ll completely revamp my lifestyle,’ which is the kind of goal we set as a New Year’s resolutions.

3. Jonathan McDowell:

   The overall message from both the junk issue and the re-entry issue is, weneed reasonable international governance of humanity's use of outer space.

4. Jeffrey Gundlach:

   To raise interest rates when junk bonds are nearly at a four-year low is a bad idea.

5. James Gannon:

   She said at the time that it was something you would pick up at a junk shop, but it's really just the fact that she took the time to decorate it and the fact she actually wrote the books on it that is important.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=junk
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=junk
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junk
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=junk
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=junk
8. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Junk
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=junk
10. ^ Etymology and Origins
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=junk
11. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html