bulk
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
transport
Etymology: From Middle English bulk, bolke (“a heap, cargo, hold; heap; bulge”), borrowed from Old Norse búlki (“the freight or the cargo of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *bulkô (“beam, pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Icelandic búlkast (“to be bulky”), Swedish dialectal bulk (“a bunch”), Danish bulk (“bump, knob”).
Conflated with Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk”).
Inflected forms:
form: bulks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bulks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bulking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bulked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bulked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Size, specifically, volume.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Quantity of Matter is the measure of the same, arising from its density and bulk conjunctly.
“ Didn't Balbus say this morning that, if a body is immersed in liquid, it displaces as much liquid as is equal to its own bulk? ” said Hugh.
By this process the body of the oyster acquires such a plumpness and rotundity, and its bulk and weight are so increased, as to materially increase its selling value.
The cliff-dwellers had chipped and chipped away at this boulder till it rested its tremendous bulk upon a mere pin-point of its surface.
gloss: Any huge body or structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The obese woman couldn't ease her bulk through the narrow passageway.
gloss: The major part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the case of such a contract, there must be an implied condition that the bulk shall correspond with the sample in quality
There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
the main bulk of a nut roast is generally some form of carbohydrate, intended to lighten the load.
gloss: The major part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The bulk of my income comes from my office job, but I also teach a couple of evening classes.
The bulk of the criticisms were invalid.
gloss: The major part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I understood the bulk of what you were saying, just one of two points I need to hear again.
gloss: Dietary fibre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Excess body mass, especially muscle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A period where one tries to gain muscle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: ...haunted the chocolate-houses, beat the watch, lay on bulks, and got claps;
Methought I had, and often did I strive
To yield the ghost, but still the envious flood
Stopped in my soul and would not let it forth
To find the empty, vast, and wand'ring air,
But smothered it within my panting bulk,
Who almost burst to belch it in the sea.
little Cupide stroue
Within her bulke, because that she had woue
The web that wrought Nastagio all his woe
gloss: Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Total.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Bulk fermentation
gloss: To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.
Last, behold on Juss’s right hand, yon lord that bulks mighty as Hercules yet steppeth lightly as a heifer.
gloss: To grow in size; to swell or expand.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To put or hold in bulk.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To add bulk to; to bulk out.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Some of the towne dwellers haue ſo large an opinion of their ſetled prouiſion, that if all her Maieſties fleet at once ſhould put into their bay, within twelue dayes warning with ſo much double beere, beefe, fiſh and bisket they would bulke them as they could wallow away with.
Related words: bulker
bulkhead
bulk out
bulk up
bulky
in bulk
Derived words: barrel bulk
break bulk
break-bulk
bulk-add
bulkage
bulk bill
bulk billing
bulk cargo
bulk carrier
bulk data
bulk defect
bulk density
bulk eraser
bulkish
bulk large
bulklike
bulk liquid
bulk mining
bulksome
bulk supply
bulk technology
bulk-up
bulk viscosity
bulkwise
clean bulk
debulk
dirty bulk
microbulk
ore-bulk-oil carrier
outbulk
overbulk
permabulk
pseudobulk
semibulk
bulken
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: главна част
roman: glavna čast
lang: Catalan
word: gruix
lang: Czech
word: většina
lang: Czech
word: velká část
lang: Finnish
word: suurin osa
lang: Finnish
word: valtaosa
lang: French
word: gros
lang: French
word: ensemble
lang: French
word: essentiel
lang: German
word: Großteil
lang: Hungarian
word: nagyja
lang: Italian
word: grosso
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: masse
lang: Portuguese
word: grosso
lang: Russian
word: бо́льшая часть
roman: bólʹšaja častʹ
lang: Russian
word: основна́я ма́сса
roman: osnovnája mássa
lang: Spanish
word: grueso
lang: Swedish
word: lejonpart
lang: Swedish
word: merpart
lang: French
word: prise de masse