Junk vs Spam - What's the difference?

junk | spam |

As a noun junk

is discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash or junk can be (nautical) a chinese sailing vessel.

As a verb junk

is to throw away.

As a proper noun spam is

tinned meat made mainly from ham by hormel foods corporation.

junk

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (EtymOnLine).

Noun

(-)

Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.

* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place

, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}

A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.

(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.

* 1961 , William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine , page 7

Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk' hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck ' junk through all the hungry young cells.

(slang) Genitalia.

* 2009 , (Kesha), (Tik Tok)

I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk

Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk

Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk

(nautical) Salt beef.

Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

(dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

(Lowell)

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* junk bond * junk bottle * junk DNA * junk drawer * junk food * junk hook * junkie * junk mail * junk ring * junkroom * junk science * junkshop * junk vat * junk wad * junkyard

Verb

(en verb)

To throw away.

Synonyms

* (throw away) bin, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash * See also

Etymology 2

From (etyl) junco, from (etyl) djong (Malay (adjong)).

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

References

spam

English

Noun

(uncountable, computing, Internet) A collection of unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place

, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.}}

(uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.

(countable, rare, computing, Internet) An unsolicited electronic message sent in bulk, usually by email or newsgroups.

(tinned meat product)

Hyponyms

(Hyponyms of spam) * * * * * (hyp-mid) * * * * (hyp-bottom)

Derived terms

* * * * *

Meronyms

* e-mail, email

Verb

(spamm)

(intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)

(transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.

(transitive, by extension, video games) To relentlessly attack an enemy with (a spell or ability).

Stop spamming that special attack!

(transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To post the same text repeatedly with disruptive effect; to flood.

Anagrams

Usage notes

----