bulk

(Inglese)

Noun

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

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).
2. (not-comparable) Total.

Verb

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

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/bʌlk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: bulk

Affine islandese: búlkast

Affine svedese: -

Affine danese: bulk

In summary

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”).

Concetti

massa

maggior parte

dimensione

mole

rinfusa

volume

maggioranza

Quantita

misura

ampiezza

generalità

magnitudine

blocco

sinonimi

size

mass

volume

dimension

magnitude

extent

majority

scale

extend

measurement

breadth

bulge

measure

quantity

scope

range

body

gross

figure

capacity

heap

bunch

area

hunch

lot

bountiful

cubic content

crowd

cut

bottle

batch

corpus

containment

configuration

clump

blow up

barrel

amplify

chunk

generality

cask

block

gauge

gist

gobbet

cargo

growth

figuration

heft

bigness

Frasi

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

Ho già descritto l'aspetto di quella massa colossale che era incorporata nel terreno.