Dictionary Definition
bulk
Noun
1 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"
[syn: majority] [ant:
minority]
2 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" [syn: mass, volume]
3 the property possessed by a large mass
Verb
1 stick out or up; "The parcel bulked in the
sack"
2 cause to bulge or swell outwards [syn: bulge]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /bʌlk/, /bVlk/
Etymology
From bulki.Noun
Translations
size, mass or volume (1)
the major part of something (2)
- Finnish: suurin osa, valtaosa
- Portuguese: a maior parte de
- Swedish: lejonpart , merpart
fibre (3)
- Finnish: kuitu
Adjective
- being large in size, mass or volume
Translations
- Portuguese: em massa
- Romanian: masiv, voluminos
- Swedish: massiv, omfångsrik, voluminös
- Turkish: yığın
Verb
Extensive Definition
Bulk can refer to:
- Bulk mail
- Bulk purchasing
- Bulk liquids
- Bulk modulus
- Bulk material handling
- Bulk - British professional wrestler
- Bulk and Skull, a pair of characters in the Power Rangers universe.
- The bulk in brane cosmology is a hypothetical higher dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- Bulk Comix
bulk in Danish: Bulk
bulk in German: Bulk
bulk in Japanese: バルク
bulk in Finnish: Bulk
bulk in Swedish: Bulk
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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