different between knur vs bulge

English

Etymology

Late Middle English knorre, variant of knarre; see knar (“knot on a tree trunk”).

Cognate with German Knorren (“knurl”) and Danish knor (“knurl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/

Noun

knur (plural knurs)

1. A knurl.
2. The small wooden ball in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Runk

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o???

Verb

knur

1. imperative of knurre

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *k?norz?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knur/

Noun

knur m anim

1. boar, uncastrated male pig kept for reproduction

Declension

Further reading

• knur in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• knur in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?ld?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b?ld?/, /b?ld?/

Etymology

From Middle English bulge (“leather bag; hump”), from Old Northern French boulge (“leather bag”), from Late Latin bulga (“leather sack”), from Gaulish *bulga, *bulgos, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”). Cognate with bilge, belly, bellows, budget, French bouge, German Balg, etc. Doublet of budge. See also budget.

Noun

bulge (plural bulges)

1. Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
2. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
3. (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
4. (colloquial) The outline of male genitals visible through clothing.
5. (figuratively) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
   • 1930, Stanford University, Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute (volume 7, page 204)

     A second bulge in prices occurred during September 30 — October 9. The rise of prices up to October 3 was in part apparently a technical adjustment of the markets, a reaction to the preceding decline.

Derived terms

• cockbulge
• manbulge

Translations

See also

• bulge bracket

Verb

bulge (third-person singular simple present bulges, present participle bulging, simple past and past participle bulged)

1. (intransitive) To stick out from (a surface).

   The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.

   He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt.
2. (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
   • 1739, William Broome, “The Battle of the Gods and Titans” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Henry Lintot, p. 253,^[2]

     Fatal to Man! at once all Ocean roars,

     And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.

Derived terms

• abulge

Translations

References

Anagrams

• bugle