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bulk

noun
/bʌlk/

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”).

  1. derived from bouk — “belly, trunk”
  2. derived from *bʰelǵ-✻ — “beam, pile, prop”
  3. derived from *bulkô✻ — “beam, pile, heap”
  4. derived from búlki — “the freight or the cargo of a ship”
  5. inherited from bulk

Definitions

  1. Size, specifically, volume.

    • 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.

  2. Any huge body or structure.

    • The obese woman couldn't ease her bulk through the narrow passageway.

  3. The major part of something.

    • In the case of such a contract, there must be an implied condition that the bulk shall correspond with the sample in quality
    • the main bulk of a nut roast is generally some form of carbohydrate, intended to lighten the load.
  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. Dietary fibre.

    2. Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.

    3. A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.

    4. Excess body mass, especially muscle.

    5. A period where one tries to gain muscle.

    6. A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe…

      A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.

    7. The body.

      • ...haunted the chocolate-houses, beat the watch, lay on bulks, and got claps;
      • little Cupide stroue Within her bulke, because that she had woue The web that wrought Nastagio all his woe

    8. Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).

    9. Total.

      • Bulk fermentation

    10. To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.

      • 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.

    11. To grow in size

      To grow in size; to swell or expand.

    12. To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.

    13. To put or hold in bulk.

    14. To add bulk to

      To add bulk to; to bulk out.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bulk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA