bulge

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

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. A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
4. The bilge of a vessel.
5. (colloquial) The outline of male genitals visible through clothing.
6. A sudden rise in value or quantity.

Verb

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

Sinónimos

swell

protrude

swelling

protuberance

bump

protrusion

stick out

lump

hump

distend

inflate

prominence

rise

expand

bloat

knot

🪢

projection

project

belly

pop out

bulging

extrusion

bag

bulge out

bulk

excrescence

gibbousness

jut

pop

salient

swell up

heave

belly out

become swollen

pouch

👝

knob

gibbosity

come out

uplift

knuckle

be swollen

curve out

bug out

billow

grow

swell out

heap

salience

convexity

distension

eminence

blister

protuberate

start

puff

point

floor heave

pout

😡

convex

build-up

promontory

bottle

blow up

puff out

raised

ramus

range

ridge

ridgy

roll

sag

saliency

sweel

stand out

bilge

surge

gibbose bunchy

teat

thickening

upheaval

be piled up

get cross

balloon

🎈

become inflated

get sulky

be inflated

karyosphere

preiection

prominency

sowback

uphearal

upswell

be enlarged

outshot

be dilated

be distended

be embonpoint

be forced out from an orifice

be puffy

bezel of a ring

flower calyx

protrude the lips

pucker the lips

gibbousity

ectasis

floor lift

be lumpy

enlarge

projecting portion

distended

extend

expansion

appendix

feather

🪶

fill out

gibbous

saddle-backing

gnarl

hill

hob

curve

hunch

crowning

jag

bottom squeeze

jute

crown

👑

lip

lobe

mound

node

outgrowth

outshoot

overflow

piling

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/bʌldʒ/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: bulge

Relativo a francés: bouge

Relativo a alemán: 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.