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• enPR: bŭlk, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /bʌlk/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ʌlk

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English bolke (“a heap, cargo, hold”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse búlki (“the freight or the cargo of a ship”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *bulkô (“beam, pile, heap”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”), related to Icelandic búlkast (“to be bulky”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish dialectal bulk (“a bunch”), Danish bulk (“bump, knob”). Conflated with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English būc (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to blow, swell”), related to Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly, stomach”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”). More at bouk, bucket.

bulk (countable and uncountable, plural bulks)

1. Size, mass or volume.
   • 1729. I Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philoſophy

     The Quantity of Matter is the meaſure of the ſame, arising from its denſity and bulk conjunctly.

   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     The cliff-dwellers had chipped and chipped away at this boulder till it rested its tremendous bulk upon a mere pin-point of its surface.

2. The major part of something.
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3. The result of water retained by fibre.
4. (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
5. (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
6. (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
7. (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
8. (obsolete) The body.
   • Shakespeare

     My liver leaped within my bulk.

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bulk (not comparable)

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

bulk (third-person singular simple present bulks, present participle bulking, simple past and past participle bulked)

1. To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
   • Leslie Stephen

     The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.

2. To grow in size; to swell or expand.

• bulkhead
• bulky
• bulk up
• in bulk