bulk

Meaning

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.

size

enormity

holding capacity

in bulk

lots of

tidy sum

large number

whole body

integrality

greater number

solid content

mass energy

loose material

vast majority

discrete material

shell capacity

loading in bulk

loose packed

loose depth

Barl. barrel

cubic content

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bʌlk/

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”).

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