Bulk
[bʌlk]
Definition
(noun.) the property possessed by a large mass.
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) stick out or up; 'The parcel bulked in the sack'.
Typist: Montague--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
(n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
(n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
(n.) The body.
(v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
(v.) A projecting part of a building.
Checker: Prudence
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Magnitude, size, volume, greatness, largeness, bigness, bulkiness, amplitude, mass, massiveness, dimensions.[2]. Body, gross, majority, main part, greater part, principal part.
Typist: Wesley
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SIZE]
SYN:Mass, whole, entirety, integrity, majority, size, magnitude, extension, body,volume, bigness, largeness, massiveness, dimension
ANT:Tenuity, minority, dismemberment, disintegration, diminution, portion,contraction, section, atom, particle
Edited by Eileen
Definition
n. a stall or framework built in front of a shop.—n. Bulk′er a street thief or strumpet.
n. magnitude or size: the greater part: any huge body or structure: the whole cargo in the hold of a ship.—v.i. to be in bulk: to be of weight or importance.—v.t. to put or hold in bulk.—ns. Bulk′head a partition separating one part of the interior of a ship from another either transverse or longitudinal and usually made watertight; Bulk′iness.—adj. Bulk′y having bulk: of great size unwieldy.—Collision bulkhead that nearest the bow—usually the only one in sailing-ships.—To load in bulk to put the cargo in loose; To sell in bulk to sell the cargo as it is in the hold: to sell in large quantities.
Typist: Willie
Examples
- And the bulk of your fortune would be laid out in annuities on the authors or their heirs. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- They supplied me as fast as they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- This moment was one of intense interest, the huge bulk gliding as gently and easily forward as if she had been but a small boat. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Supposing him wrapped up as those two passengers were, is there anything in his bulk and stature to render it unlikely that he was one of them? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The small-arms of the enemy were far superior to the bulk of ours. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We could thus take care of a snow-storm by diminishing the bulk of material to be handled. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Those duties, when applied to such purposes, are most properly imposed according to the bulk or weight of the goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Looking across it in the darkness, lighter here in the open from the starlight, he saw the dark bulks of the picketed horses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He finds that all unite in equal bulks, or two bulks of one to one of another, or three bulks of one to one of another. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typed by Dave