Definizione monolingua

chuck

chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked)

1. To make a clucking sound.
2. To touch or tap gently.
3. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.

   Chuck that magazine to me, would you?

4. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.

   This food?s gone off - you?d better chuck it.

5. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
6. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.

chuck (plural chucks)

1. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
   • 1975, Thomas Fabbricante, William J. Sultan, Practical Meat Cutting and Merchandising: Beef, page 141,

     Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.

   • 2006, North American Meat Processors Association, The Meat Buyers Guide: Beef, Lamb, Veal, Pork, and Poultry, page 113,

     The chucks are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may either be attached or separated and packaged with the chucks.

2. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
   • 1824, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions, Volume 42, page 88,

     I have had a chuck of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.

   • 1912, Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley, American Machinist Grinding Book, page 322,

     Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks.

   • 2003, Julie K. Petersen, “chuck”, entry in Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary, page 181,

     A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has chucks, they are typically either clamping chucks or vacuum chucks.

   • 2008, Ramon Francis Bonaquist, NHCRP Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice, page 30,

     The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrep^TM is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.

Definizione dizionario chuck

abbandonare

accarezzare

buttare

chuck

dare un buffetto

gettare

lanciare

mandrino

Altri significati:

slang: to vomit

(slang) Friend or close acquaintance.

In general, a mechanical device to hold something, such as a drill bit, firmly in place, as in a high-speed rotating machine such as a drill or grinder.

(intransitive, slang) To vomit.

Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.

A gentle touch.

(transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.

(slang) An act of vomiting.

chuck (device for holding a workpiece in a lathe or a tool in a drill)

to discard

to throw carelessly

(intransitive, cricket) To throw the ball rather than bowl it.

(transitive, Australian, New Zealand, UK, US, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.

mechanical device