bulge

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. An object which is 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. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
4. The bilge of a vessel.
5. (colloquial) The outline of the penis visible through clothing.
6. (figuratively) A sudden rise in value or quantity.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To stick out from a surface without breaking it.
2. (intransitive) (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; to swell; to belly.
3. (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

Conceptes

sobresortir

gep

gepa

saltar

sortir

tubercle

tuberositat

prominència

inflar-se

bombar-se

bony

protuberància

Sinònims

swell

protrude

swelling

protuberance

bump

protrusion

hump

lump

stick out

distend

inflate

prominence

bloat

expand

rise

bulging

knot

🪢

projection

project

pop out

belly

excrescence

bulge out

salient

swell up

gibbousness

jut

pop

extrusion

bulk

bag

eminence

distension

belly out

puff

salience

start

heave

become swollen

heap

grow

convexity

blister

come out

gibbosity

billow

knob

knuckle

pouch

👝

protuberate

Traduccions

bomber

bosse

bulto

protuberância

protuberancia

protubérance

bojo

Wulst

anschwellen

bombement

Beule

Wölbung

saliência

protuberanza

renflement

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bʌldʒ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: bulge

Cognat amb francès: bouge

Cognat amb alemany: Balg

In summary

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, and from the same root as belly and bellows. See also budget.