junk as a noun: - 1
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as a verb: - 1
junk
noun
1 junk
The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up.
synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, rubble.
Roget 273:
ship,
vessel,
sail;
craft,
bottom.
navy,
marine,
fleet,
flotilla;
shipping.
man of war
etc.
(combatant)
726;
transport,
tender,
storeship†;
merchant ship,
merchantman;
packet,
liner;
whaler,
slaver,
collier,
coaster,
lighter;
fishing boat,
pilot boat;
trawler,
hulk;
yacht;
baggala†;
floating hotel,
floating palace;
ocean greyhound.
ship,
bark,
barque,
brig,
snow,
hermaphrodite brig;
brigantine,
barkantine†;
schooner;
topsail schooner,
for and aft schooner,
three masted schooner;
chasse-maree [Fr.];
sloop,
cutter,
corvette,
clipper,
foist,
yawl,
dandy,
ketch,
smack,
lugger,
barge,
hoy†,
cat,
buss;
sailer,
sailing vessel;
windjammer;
steamer,
steamboat,
steamship,
liner,
ocean liner,
cruisp,
flap,
dab,
pat,
thump,
beat,
blow,
bang,
slam,
dash;
punch,
thwack,
whack;
hit hard,
strike hard;
swap,
batter,
dowse†,
baste;
pelt,
patter,
buffet,
belabor;
fetch one a blow;
poke at,
pip,
ship of the line;
destroyer,
cruiser,
frigate;
landing ship,
LST;
aircraft carrier,
carrier,
flattop [Coll.],
nuclear powered carrier;
submarine,
submersible,
atomic submarine.
boat,
pinnace,
launch;
life boat,
long boat,
jolly boat,
bum boat,
fly boat,
cock boat,
ferry boat,
canal boat;
swamp boat,
ark,
bully,
battery,
bateau [Can.],
broadhorn†,
dory,
droger†,
drogher;
dugout,
durham boat,
flatboat,
galiot†;
shallop†,
gig,
funny,
skiff,
dingy,
scow,
cockleshell,
wherry,
coble†,
punt,
cog,
kedge,
lerret†;
eight oar,
four oar,
pair oar;
randan†;
outrigger;
float,
raft,
pontoon;
prame†;
iceboat,
ice canoe,
ice yacht.
catamaran,
hydroplane,
hovercraft,
coracle,
gondola,
carvel†,
caravel;
felucca,
caique†,
canoe,
birch bark canoe,
dugout canoe;
galley,
galleyfoist†;
bilander†,
dogger†,
hooker,
howker†;
argosy,
carack†;
galliass†,
galleon;
polacca†,
polacre†,
tartane†,
junk,
lorcha†,
praam†,
proa†,
prahu†,
saick†,
sampan,
xebec,
dhow;
dahabeah†;
nuggah†;
kayak,
keel boat [U.S.],
log canoe,
pirogue;
quadrireme†,
trireme;
stern-wheeler [U.S.];
wanigan†,
wangan [U.S.],
wharf boat.
balloon;
airship,
aeroplane;
biplane,
monoplane,
triplane†;
hydroplane;
aerodrome;
air balloon,
pilot balloon,
fire balloon,
dirigible,
zeppelin;
aerostat,
Montgolfier;
kite,
parachute.
jet plane,
rocket plane,
jet liner,
turbojet,
prop-jet,
propeller plane;
corporate plane,
corporate jet,
private plane,
private aviation;
airline,
common carrier;
fighter,
bomber,
fighter-bomber,
escort plane,
spy plane;
supersonic aircraft,
subsonic aircraft.
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Roget 645:
inutility;
uselessness
etc.
adj.;
inefficacy†,
futility;
ineptitude,
inaptitude;
unsubservience†;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
inefficiency,
etc.
(incompetence)
158;
unskillfulness
etc.
699;
disservice;
unfruitfulness
etc.
(unproductiveness)..
169;
labor in vain,
labor lost,
labor of Sisyphus;
lost trouble,
lost labor;
work of Penelope;
sleeveless errand,
wild goose chase,
mere farce.
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104;
supererogation
etc.
(redundancy)
641.
vanitas vanitatum [Lat.],
vanity,
inanity,
worthlessness,
nugacity†;
triviality
etc.
(unimportance)
643.
caput mortuum [Lat.],
waste paper,
dead letter;
blunt tool.
litter,
rubbish,
junk,
lumber,
odds and ends,
cast-off clothes;
button top;
shoddy;
rags,
orts†,
trash,
refuse,
sweepings,
scourings,
offscourings†,
waste,
rubble,
debris,
detritus;
stubble,
leavings;
broken meat;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
weeds,
tares;
rubbish heap,
dust hole;
rudera†,
deads†.
fruges consumere natus [Lat.]
[Horace].
etc.
(drone)
683
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Dutch: bik, puin, restanten, steenbik, wrakhout, wrakstukken
Polish: gruz
2 junk
Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails.
Polish: dżonka
verb
1 junk
Dispose of (something useless or old):
— Junk an old car.
synonyms: scrap, trash.
Dutch: afdanken
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