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# junk

«junk» in Mova's school dictionary: **old things that are not wanted, are broken or have no use** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#m1)

2) Junk food is food with lots of sugar, salt or fat and little goodness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#m2)

3) Junk mail is advertising you did not ask for, on paper or by email. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#m3)

4) A junk is also a kind of wooden sailing boat from China. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#m4)

5) A junk can also mean a thick lump or chunk of food, such as a piece of bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#x1)
- They took 3 bags of junk to the dump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#x2)
- Junk food costs 4 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#x3)
- The garage is full of old junk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#x4)
- Eating too much junk food is bad for your teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#x5)
- Mum deletes the junk mail without opening it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#x6)
- We found an old clock in a junk shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#x7)
- A junk sailed slowly across the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#x8)
- So she took Jack into the kitchen, and gave him a junk of bread and cheese and a jug of milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/6/)
- [One treat meal to celebrate is fine, but sport doesn't cancel out a huge pile of junk food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «junk» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junk/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.