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bunker

(bʌŋkəʳ)
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense, plural bunkers, present participle bunkering, past tense, past participle bunkered
1. countable noun
A bunker is a place, usually underground, that has been built with strong walls to protect it against heavy gunfire and bombing.
...an extensive network of fortified underground bunkers.
2. countable noun
A bunker is a container for coal or other fuel.
3. countable noun
On a golf course, a bunker is a large area filled with sand, which is deliberately put there as an obstacle that golfers must try to avoid.
4. verb
In golf, if you bunker a shot, you hit your ball into the bunker.
She bunkered her second shot. [VERB noun]

bunker in British English

(ˈbʌŋkə)
noun
1. 
a large storage container or tank, as for coal
2.  Also called (esp US and Canadian): sand trap
an obstacle on a golf course, usually a sand-filled hollow bordered by a ridge
3. 
an underground shelter, often of reinforced concrete and with a bank and embrasures for guns above ground
verb
4. (transitive) golf
a. 
to drive (the ball) into a bunker
b. (passive)
to have one's ball trapped in a bunker
5. (transitive) nautical
a. 
to fuel (a ship)
b. 
to transfer (cargo) from a ship to a storehouse
Word origin
C16 (in the sense: chest, box): from Scottish bonkar, of unknown origin

bunker in American English

(ˈbʌŋkər)
noun
1. 
a large bin or tank, as for a ship's fuel
2. 
an underground fortification of steel and concrete containing a bomb shelter, weapon emplacement, etc., that is often part of a system
3. 
a sand trap or other barren area serving as a hazard on a golf course
verb transitive
4. 
to supply (a ship) with fuel
5.  Golf
to hit (a ball) into a bunker
Word origin
Scot < ?

bunker in Chemical Engineering

(bʌŋkər)
Word forms: (regular plural) bunkers
noun
(Chemical Engineering: Operations, Solid-solid operations)
A bunker is a vessel for storing or mixing collections of particles.
SIMILAR WORDS: 
silo
Free flowing bulk solid materials are stored in bunkers.
Bunkers are used for storing free-flowing powders or granules, and for cohesive materialssuch as coal and iron ore.
A bunker is a vessel for storing or mixing collections of particles.

COBUILD Collocations
bunker

concrete bunker

Examples of 'bunker' in a sentence
bunker

The risk is that it will look like a fortress from the outside and an underground bunker indoors.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Now it seems the youngsters have been held in a concrete bunker all this time.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
You must be careful with the drive to avoid two menacing bunkers to the right.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It began with a blocked drive into a bunker.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
No bunkers but still one of the most testing holes.
The Sun (2016)
The only hole on the course without a bunker.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Underneath the complex is a rabbit run of underground tunnels and bunkers.
The Sun (2011)
You know how people who know golf say the bunker shot is the easiest shot?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Tours of the park outside with a bunker in the grounds.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Drive straight or slightly to the right to avoid bunkers on the left of the fairway.
The Sun (2016)
Fire in coal bunker number six.
Eaton, John P & Haas, Charles A Titanic - Destination disaster (1987)
But it doesn't last long as his next drive finds the bunker.
The Sun (2011)
He hit it down the left, it ran on 80 yards and finished in a bunker.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Most of the tiny bits of jigsaw on show here survived accidentally, cemented into the walls as rubble, dropped into coal bunkers and forgotten.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)

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bunker

British English: bunker NOUN
A bunker is a place, usually underground, that has been built with strong walls to protect it against heavy gunfire and bombing.
...an extensive network of fortified underground bunkers.
  • American English: bunker
  • Brazilian Portuguese: abrigo
  • Chinese: 地堡
  • European Spanish: búnker
  • French: bunker
  • German: Bunker
  • Italian: bunker
  • Japanese: 掩蔽壕
  • Korean: 벙커
  • European Portuguese: abrigo
  • Latin American Spanish: búnker

Chinese translation of 'bunker'

bunker

(ˈbʌŋkəʳ)

n (c)

  1. (Mil) 掩体(體) (yǎntǐ)
  2. (Golf) 沙坑 (shākēng) (个(個), gè)
  3. (= coal store) 煤箱 (méixiāng) (个(個), gè)
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