bulk.
Size, specifically, volume.
Meaning & usage
Size, specifically, volume.
Any huge body or structure.
The obese woman couldn't ease her bulk through the narrow passageway.
The major part of something.
The major part of something. Majority, balance.
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.
The major part of something. 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.
Where this word 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”).
Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).
Total.
Where this word 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”).
To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
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.
Where this word 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”).
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