bulk
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bulk
- /bʌlk/
- /bʊlk/ Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌlk
Where it comes from
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”).
noun bulks
- Size, specifically, volume. The Quantity of Matter is the measure of the same, arising from its density and bulk conjunctly.
- Any huge body or structure. The obese woman couldn't ease her bulk through the narrow passageway.
- 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
- Majority, balance. The bulk of my income comes from my office job, but I also teach a couple of evening classes.
- Gist. I understood the bulk of what you were saying, just one of two points I need to hear again.
- Dietary fibre.
- Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
- A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- The body. ...haunted the chocolate-houses, beat the watch, lay on bulks, and got claps;
adjective
- Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).
- Total. Bulk fermentation
verb bulks · bulking · bulked
- To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent. The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.
- To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- To put or hold in bulk.
- To add bulk to; to bulk out. 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.
