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Bulk Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Bulk?
[n] the property possessed by a large mass
[n] the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports" [n] the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; "the majority of his customers prefer it"; "the bulk of the work is finished" [v] cause to bulge or swell outwards [v] stick out or up; "The parcel bulked in the sack" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bulk: bulge | majority | volume Related Terms | Find terms related to Bulk: accumulate | add to | agglomerate | aggrandize | aggregate | aggroup | amass | amount | ampleness | amplify | amplitude | area | assemble | augment | balloon | batch | best part | better part | bigness | bloat | block | blow up | bodily size | body | boundlessness | breadth | bring together | broaden | budget | build | build up | bulk large | bulk out | bunch | bunch together | bunch up | caliber | chunk | clod | clump | cluster | coarseness | collect | colligate | collocate | combine | compare | compile | conglomerate | core | corpulence | corpus | corral | coverage | crescendo | cumulate | depth | develop | diameter | dig up | dilate | dimension | dimensions | distance through | distend | draw together | dredge up | drive together | enlarge | enlargement | enormity | enormousness | essence | exceed | expand | expanse | expansion | extend | extension | extent | fatness | fill out | force | formidableness | fullness | gather | gather in | gather together | gauge | generality | get in | get together | gigantism | girth | gist | gob | grandeur | grandness | gravamen | great scope | greaten | greatness | grossness | group | height | hike | hike up | huff | hugeness | hunk | immensity | increase | infinity | inflate | intensity | join | juxtapose | largeness | length | loaf | loom | loom large | lump | lump together | magnify | magnitude | main body | major part | majority | make up | mass | match | matter | measure | measurement | meat | might | mightiness | mobilize | more than half | most | muchness | muster | nugget | numbers | object | outsoar | outstrip | overtop | pair | partner | pat | plenitude | plurality | power | preponderance | preponderancy | prodigiousness | proportion | proportions | puff | puff up | pump | pump up | put together | quantity | quantum | radius | raise | rake up | rally | range | rarefy | reach | rear | rise above | round up | scale | scope | scrape together | size | snowball | soar | spread | stand out | staple | strength | stretch | stupendousness | substance | sufflate | sum | swell | take up | the greatest number | the third dimension | thickness | thrust | total | totality | tower | tower above | transcend | tremendousness | tumefy | up | vastness | volume | wad | whip in | whole | widen | width See Also | dollar volume | figure | magnitude | mass | number | pouch | protrude | swell | turnover Bulk In Webster's Dictionary \Bulk\ (b[u^]lk), n. [OE. bulke, bolke, heap; cf. Dan. bulk
lump, clod, OSw. bolk crowd, mass, Icel. b?lkast to be bulky.
Cf. {Boll}, n., {Bile} a boil, {Bulge}, n.]
1. Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size;
as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
Against these forces there were prepared near one
hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a
more nimble motion, and more serviceable. --Bacon.
2. The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion;
the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them,
``to obtain what by labor can be obtained.'' --J.
Morley.
3. (Naut.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
4. The body. [Obs.] --Shak.
My liver leaped within my bulk. --Turbervile.
{Barrel bulk}. See under {Barrel}.
{To break bulk} (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the
cargo.
{In bulk}, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate
packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape
that any desired quantity may be taken or sold.
{Laden in bulk}, {Stowed in bulk}, having the cargo loose in
the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks.
{Sale by bulk}, a sale of goods as they are, without weight
or measure.
Syn: Size; magnitude; dimension; volume; bigness; largeness;
massiveness.
\Bulk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bulked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bulking}.] To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell. The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment. --Leslie Stephen. \Bulk\, n. [Icel. b[=a]lkr a beam, partition. Cf. {Balk}, n. & v.] A projecting part of a building. [Obs.] Here, stand behind this bulk. --Shak. |
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