bulk

Signification

Noun

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

Adj

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

Verb

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

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bʌlk/

Étymologie

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 *bʰelǵ- (“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”).

Phrases

I have already described the appearance of that colossal bulk which was embedded in the ground .

J'ai déjà décrit l'apparence de ce volume colossal qui était ancré dans le sol.