Junk
noun
Old or discarded items that are considered useless or of little value.
We need to clear out all the junk in the garage.
Often appears as...
- junk food
- junk mail
noun
A type of ancient Chinese sailing ship.
We took a sunset cruise on a traditional junk in Hong Kong harbor.
Often appears as...
- chinese junk
- hong kong junk
Usage tips
Historical
noun
In slang, illegally marketed drugs.
They were arrested for possession of junk.
Often appears as...
- junk fiend
- junk sickness
Usage tips
Slang, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
Low-quality or cheap goods.
Don't waste your money on that junk, it'll break in a week.
Often appears as...
- junk merchandise
- junk products
adjective
Refers to bonds with a high risk and a low credit rating.
Investors are dumping their junk bonds.
Often appears as...
- junk status
- junk grade
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Formal
Financial
noun
Old or discarded items that are considered useless or of little value.
We need to clear out all the junk in the garage.
Often appears as...
- junk food
- junk mail
noun
A type of ancient Chinese sailing ship.
We took a sunset cruise on a traditional junk in Hong Kong harbor.
Often appears as...
- chinese junk
- hong kong junk
Usage tips
Historical
noun
In slang, illegally marketed drugs.
They were arrested for possession of junk.
Often appears as...
- junk fiend
- junk sickness
Usage tips
Slang, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
Low-quality or cheap goods.
Don't waste your money on that junk, it'll break in a week.
Often appears as...
- junk merchandise
- junk products
adjective
Refers to bonds with a high risk and a low credit rating.
Investors are dumping their junk bonds.
Often appears as...
- junk status
- junk grade
Usage tips
Formal
Financial
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Junk often implies a personal attachment or history with the items.
I can’t just throw this away, it’s not junk to me!
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Formal Writing
Consider a more formal term like 'debris' or 'clutter' in official documents.
The report mentioned the accumulation of debris in the warehouse.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Matters
Use 'junk' for unwanted items, but not for recycling or resale goods.
That old chest isn’t junk; it’s vintage and valuable.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Junk often implies a personal attachment or history with the items.
I can’t just throw this away, it’s not junk to me!
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Formal Writing
Consider a more formal term like 'debris' or 'clutter' in official documents.
The report mentioned the accumulation of debris in the warehouse.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Matters
Use 'junk' for unwanted items, but not for recycling or resale goods.
That old chest isn’t junk; it’s vintage and valuable.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Junk often implies a personal attachment or history with the items.
I can’t just throw this away, it’s not junk to me!
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid in Formal Writing
Consider a more formal term like 'debris' or 'clutter' in official documents.
The report mentioned the accumulation of debris in the warehouse.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Matters
Use 'junk' for unwanted items, but not for recycling or resale goods.
That old chest isn’t junk; it’s vintage and valuable.
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SpaceX's plan to fly you...
and perhaps mainly for good -- I mean, it changes a lot if suddenly everyone can connect cheaply. Yeah, there's no question it'll change the world. How much of a worry is it, and how much of a drag on the planning is it, are concerns just about space junk? People worry a lot about this. This would a huge increase in the total number of satellites in orbit.
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Martin Hanczyc: The line...
If you let that go unregulated, you'll continue to make and break chemical bonds, forming an even more diverse mixture of molecules that then forms this kind of black tarry stuff in your pan, right, that's difficult to wash out. So that's what the origin of life would have looked like. You needed to get life out of this junk that
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Let's raise kids to be...
customer service looks like right we have all these lessons in front of us that we don't take those opportunities we teach kids to go get a tutor imagine if you actually took all the kids junk that's in the house right now all the toys that they're outgrown two years ago and said why don't we start selling some
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What's wrong with what...
they encouraged us, via their overly simplistic food pyramid, to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, along with more carbs. What they didn't tell us is that some carbs are better than others, and that plants and whole grains should be supplanting eating junk food.
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Digging the Scrap Heap PIPE...
protection resources are precious nothing is thrown out everything has multiple uses for every source full Sam Carlson junk and scrap piles are key to his independence and survival first thing I'm gonna do to build this vertical axis wind turbine is I'm gonna
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Be humble -- and other...
But I couldn't find anything satisfactory. In fact, the more self-help books I read, the more stressed and anxious I became. It was like I was feeding my mind with junk food, and I was becoming mentally obese. I was about to give up,
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Underground Templar...
Here? This is it? Yeah. Under this door, we are going to see another world. This is like out of a movie right now. Are you kidding me? We're going to go into a secret door-- Yeah. --behind a junk shop?
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This could be why you're...
But just like junk food has taken over our diets and made us physically sick, a kind of junk values have taken over our minds and made us mentally sick. For thousands of years, philosophers have said,
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Swimming with Dolphins PIPE...
junk unbelievable but sweets a pair of them for most of the diet that was quite unreal with scuba and though BCD is quickly they said it's okay I think my
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Solving problems with...
world sees junk Africa sees rebirth thank you
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SpaceX's plan to fly you...
and perhaps mainly for good -- I mean, it changes a lot if suddenly everyone can connect cheaply. Yeah, there's no question it'll change the world. How much of a worry is it, and how much of a drag on the planning is it, are concerns just about space junk? People worry a lot about this. This would a huge increase in the total number of satellites in orbit.
Video examples
Martin Hanczyc: The line...
If you let that go unregulated, you'll continue to make and break chemical bonds, forming an even more diverse mixture of molecules that then forms this kind of black tarry stuff in your pan, right, that's difficult to wash out. So that's what the origin of life would have looked like. You needed to get life out of this junk that
Video examples
Let's raise kids to be...
customer service looks like right we have all these lessons in front of us that we don't take those opportunities we teach kids to go get a tutor imagine if you actually took all the kids junk that's in the house right now all the toys that they're outgrown two years ago and said why don't we start selling some
Video examples
What's wrong with what...
they encouraged us, via their overly simplistic food pyramid, to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, along with more carbs. What they didn't tell us is that some carbs are better than others, and that plants and whole grains should be supplanting eating junk food.
Video examples
Digging the Scrap Heap PIPE...
protection resources are precious nothing is thrown out everything has multiple uses for every source full Sam Carlson junk and scrap piles are key to his independence and survival first thing I'm gonna do to build this vertical axis wind turbine is I'm gonna
Video examples
Be humble -- and other...
But I couldn't find anything satisfactory. In fact, the more self-help books I read, the more stressed and anxious I became. It was like I was feeding my mind with junk food, and I was becoming mentally obese. I was about to give up,
Video examples
Underground Templar...
Here? This is it? Yeah. Under this door, we are going to see another world. This is like out of a movie right now. Are you kidding me? We're going to go into a secret door-- Yeah. --behind a junk shop?
Video examples
This could be why you're...
But just like junk food has taken over our diets and made us physically sick, a kind of junk values have taken over our minds and made us mentally sick. For thousands of years, philosophers have said,
Video examples
Swimming with Dolphins PIPE...
junk unbelievable but sweets a pair of them for most of the diet that was quite unreal with scuba and though BCD is quickly they said it's okay I think my
Video examples
Solving problems with...
world sees junk Africa sees rebirth thank you
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Quote examples
Tom Ford
American Designer
I think people are sick of trends changing every six months - not because we're tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.
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Shanna Moakler
I didn't eat entire pies or pig out on junk... I gave life and no one can or should make a woman feel bad about her body when she just had a baby.
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George Karl
American Coach
The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.
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Sam Kean
American Writer
Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.
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Vijay Antony
Indian Musician
These days, I pay attention to my eating habits and avoid junk food, but looks are not that important to be a good actor.
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Jamie Oliver
British Chef
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
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Thomas A. Edison
American Inventor
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Dolly Parton
American Singer
I was always a junk food person, still am.
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Ray Bradbury
American Writer
Electronic books are junk.
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Tom Ford
American Designer
I think people are sick of trends changing every six months - not because we're tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.
Quote examples
Jill Lepore
American Historian
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.
Quote examples
Shanna Moakler
I didn't eat entire pies or pig out on junk... I gave life and no one can or should make a woman feel bad about her body when she just had a baby.
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George Karl
American Coach
The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.
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Sam Kean
American Writer
Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.
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Vijay Antony
Indian Musician
These days, I pay attention to my eating habits and avoid junk food, but looks are not that important to be a good actor.
Quote examples
Jamie Oliver
British Chef
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
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Thomas A. Edison
American Inventor
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Dolly Parton
American Singer
I was always a junk food person, still am.
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Ray Bradbury
American Writer
Electronic books are junk.
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