different between bulk vs obo

English

Etymology

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 *b?el?- (“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”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?lk, IPA^(key): /b?lk/
• Rhymes: -?lk

Noun

bulk (countable and uncountable, plural bulks)

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

1. Size, specifically, volume.
   • 1729. I Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, page 1.

     The Quantity of Matter is the measure of the same, arising from its density and bulk conjunctly.

   • The cliff-dwellers had chipped and chipped away at this boulder till it rested its tremendous bulk upon a mere pin-point of its surface.

2. Any huge body or structure.
3. The major part of something.
4. Dietary fibre.
5. (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
6. (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
7. (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
8. (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
9. (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
10. (obsolete) The body.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of George Turberville to this entry?)

Translations

Adjective

bulk (not comparable)

1. being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
2. total

Translations

Derived terms

• bulken (verb)

Verb

bulk (third-person singular simple present bulks, present participle bulking, simple past and past participle bulked)

1. (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
2. (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
3. (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
4. (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to, to bulk out.

Related terms

• bulker
• bulkhead
• bulky
• bulk up
• in bulk

Translations

English

Noun

obo

1. Alternative form of ovoo (“Mongolian cairn”)

Phrase

obo

1. (colloquial) Alternative letter-case form of OBO: or best offer

Anagrams

• Boo, OOB, OoB, boo

Bamu

Noun

obo

1. water
2. liquid
3. tide

Derived terms

• koko obo

References

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67 (confirms this form is used in the Bamu, Pirupiru, and Sisiame dialects)
• Chris and Phil Carr, Bamu Dictionary (2012)

Kerewo

Noun

obo

1. water

References

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67
• Oroa buka: Kerewo wade via bohoboho wade = A book of stories in Kerewo and English (2010), first edition (SIL)

Noun

obo

1. woman

References

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 15
• Kerewo Organised Phonology Data

Luo

Noun

obo (plural oboye)

1. lung

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English oboe.

Noun

obo m (genitive singular obo, plural oboghyn)

1. oboe

Morigi

Noun

obo

1. water

References

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

Northeast Kiwai

Noun

obo

1. (Gope, Urama) water

Synonyms

• o'obó (Arigibi)
• o'bó (Gibaio)

References

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

obo m (definite singular oboen, indefinite plural oboer, definite plural oboene)

1. an oboe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

obo m (definite singular oboen, indefinite plural oboar, definite plural oboane)

1. an oboe

Xhosa

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ô??o]

Pronoun

ôbo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.