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bulky
English
Etymology
From Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?lki/
Adjective
bulky (comparative bulkier, superlative bulkiest)
- Being large in size, mass, or volume.
- Unwieldy.
- (bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
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bulk
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?)
- 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.
- 1729. I Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, page 1.
- Any huge body or structure.
- The major part of something.
- Dietary fibre.
- (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
- (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- (obsolete) The body.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of George Turberville to this entry?)
Translations
Adjective
bulk (not comparable)
- being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
- total
Translations
Derived terms
- bulken (verb)
Verb
bulk (third-person singular simple present bulks, present participle bulking, simple past and past participle bulked)
- (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
- (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to, to bulk out.
Related terms
- bulker
- bulkhead
- bulky
- bulk up
- in bulk
Translations
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