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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bulk
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
buy in bulk (=buy large quantities of something)
▪ It’s much cheaper to buy in bulk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dark
▪ And before Fen could answer her question a dark bulk moved out of the shadows into their path.
▪ She dashed around the corner, glad to see his dark bulk again.
▪ The dark bulk of buildings on his right gave way to emptiness, and he knew he'd reached Princess Street.
▪ The dark bulk of St Catherine's faced him on the other side of the wide road.
▪ If Reynolds glanced back he could still see the dark bulk of the table against the light, its straps hanging.
great
▪ To the south is the great bulk of Cadair Idris.
▪ The quadriceps has such great bulk and strength that slight weakness of knee extension is more difficult to demonstrate. 4.
▪ This means that fibre-rich foods swell to a greater bulk, to fill the stomach, than any other foods.
▪ A Northrop GrummanHughes combination would control the great bulk of the market for airborne radar systems.
▪ But they may be more dangerous there, because of the great bulk of official paper which sometimes supplies tempting shortcuts.
▪ Data sets precluded from analysis are well documented, but the great bulk of typical experimental data will be handled.
▪ Inevitably therefore, commercial considerations will govern the great bulk of our electronic output.
▪ The great bulk of the cases come from the work of Q. Cervidius Scaevola.
huge
▪ In the centre of the room was a monstrous machine, black and towering; its huge bulk awesome with power.
▪ Against their huge bulk, the pilgrims and mule toiling up the almost invisible pathways are tiny and humbled.
▪ I saw Redgrave's huge bulk forcing me under the water.
▪ Incredibly, despite his huge bulk, he records just 11 per cent body fat.
▪ But now mariners could see, dwarfing the tower, the huge rectangular bulk of Larksoken Power Station.
large
▪ The large bulk of the data that have led to this conclusion originates from areas south of the polar circle.
▪ Satiety was increased with a larger bulk of food intake.
▪ With a slider it is possible to fish a much larger grouping of bulk shot well below the drifting layers of water.
▪ Designed for hardware implementation, its operation is relatively fast and works well for large bulk documents or encryption.
▪ Possibly because of its immensely larger bulk, antarctic ice has changed far less during the same period.
▪ The house loomed undefined, a large bulk between her and the milky sky.
▪ The gentlemanly proprietorships and relaxed chairmanships that historically supplied a large bulk of presidents have become rarities.
vast
▪ Some may be notes and coin but the vast bulk will come from people writing cheques drawn on bank accounts.
▪ The purpose of the new series starting this week, Computer 102, is to keep its vast bulk from crushing you.
▪ The theory is that data from the vast bulk of incoming faxes is later inputted in some form back into the computer.
▪ The vast bulk of mainstream manufacturers in this country don't know how to use our designers.
■ NOUN
cargo
▪ After coal, building materials figured importantly among bulk cargoes.
chemical
▪ Heavy bulk chemicals are controlled by the provision of fixed dispensers.
▪ The industry, as defined by the IDA. comprises bulk chemicals, pharmaceuticals and healthcare products.
▪ All bulk chemicals should retain their identity with intact labelling, instructions and safety precautions.
modulus
▪ A perfect gas can sustain no shear forces so that the above bulk modulus is the only relevant one.
■ VERB
buy
▪ Aunt Margaret must buy tins in bulk.
▪ Unless you are feeding a large group, try not to buy in bulk, or they will rot.
▪ According to new statistics, most of us buy the bulk of our wine from supermarkets and are keen on own brands.
▪ They are more convenient and often less expensive.-#Buy in bulk.
▪ Another woman explains how a food co-operative has been set up, buying in bulk and selling at no profit to members.
▪ Internet start-up companies, which bought the bulk of online ads, are increasingly selective about where they put their dwindling dollars.
▪ They buy in bulk from manufacturers and importers, and distribute direct to their retail outlets.
▪ You have entrepreneurs there looking to buy in bulk.
constitute
▪ Together, these two bodies constitute the bulk of legislative and executive authority within the Community.
▪ The training command... constitutes the bulk of the instruction.
▪ In all countries that we studied paraprofessionals constitute the bulk of the social welfare work-force.
▪ It might be said that this constitutes the bulk of market lore and wisdom.
form
▪ They form the bulk of congregations, raise funds, dean and decorate the churches.
▪ Undergraduate majors form the bulk of most economic professors' workloads.
▪ His experiences there form the bulk of the story that he wants to tell voters.
▪ It is intended that yarn for hard twist carpets will form the bulk of production in the future months.
▪ Carbohydrate-potatoes, pasta, rice, cereals, bread-should form the bulk of our diet.
▪ Angiosperms are usually tiny, growing in isolated clusters and nowhere forming the bulk of the cover.
make
▪ Employers will not be able to make bulk transfers of employees from one scheme to another unless certain conditions are met.
▪ Quartz, feldspar, and the clay minerals make up the bulk of that contribution.
▪ Oat straw, although variable in quality, generally makes good bulk fodder for cattle.
▪ Adjustment has been made throughout for intra-industry bulk Scotch Whisky sales. 7.
▪ Women actually make up the bulk of underground workers in many countries.
▪ Bread made by traditional bulk fermentation. 75p for 800g.
▪ Often current slang and colloquialisms make up the bulk of such people's language.
▪ Consigning me to hell seemed to make up the bulk of it, as I recall.
produce
▪ Proofs are produced in bulk by the Computer Group on request.
provide
▪ The participating banks collectively provide the bulk of the funds.
▪ Petrus Partners, a venture capital firm, provided the bulk of the financing.
▪ As well as providing the bulk of labour for large plantations, they carried out menial tasks in Colombo and other urban centres.
▪ Subscriptions and contributions to various appeals provide the bulk of our finances.
▪ It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
▪ Essentially Glasgow and Edinburgh were the two towns which provided the bulk of the membership and carried the burden of administration.
sell
▪ Governments do not sell the bulk of their goods and services.
▪ Milk chocolate sold in bulk could only vary in price and quality.
▪ Supermarkets have found they can get around licensing restrictions by selling in bulk.
▪ It rolls up people's small holdings and sells them in bulk.
▪ Both sides of the narrow highway are lined with family outlets selling souvenirs in bulk quantities.
▪ Unmarked boxes of jointed meat with forged inspection stamps are being sold into the bulk meat trade.
spend
▪ Wells has spent the bulk of $ 23 million elsewhere in its 10-state area.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For its bulk, the whale is a graceful swimmer.
▪ Let the dough rise until it is double in bulk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the bulk of the chemical run-off binds to particulates and is concentrated rather than dispersed evenly through the water column.
▪ He saw the pond they called the lake and the grey bulk of the Mithraeum on the farther shore.
▪ The bulk of the mound towered over Mungo, intimidating him.
▪ The great bulk of the evidence from the town, however, concerns pottery production and iron-working.
▪ The participating banks collectively provide the bulk of the funds.
▪ Undergraduate majors form the bulk of most economic professors' workloads.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We sell bulk coffee to restaurants.
III.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ Use pads of acid-free tissue paper to bulk out shoes.
▪ Reno unfolded herself, pushed her bulk out of the car, and peeled her dresses off the back seat.
up
▪ Unlimited quantities of canned or fresh beansprouts may be added to bulk up small quantities of rice.
▪ We could have bulked up our record.
▪ The temptation is to leave these areas for later lifting, in the hope that plants bulk up better.
▪ Wesley Person must bulk up his body and his confidence, but he showed encouraging signs late in the season.
▪ Richard was bulking up, working on his lats, his tris, his abs.
▪ They bulked up on cash, bought stock index futures but also placed a big, new wager.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As for Hellinck and Lupi, their work is a chaos of dubious attributions but motets bulk largely in it.
▪ Each day bulked, a wrong guess, a thing Ralph had failed to take into account.
▪ These had always bulked large in the history of diplomacy.
▪ Use pads of acid-free tissue paper to bulk out shoes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bulk

Fiber \Fi"ber\, Fibre \Fi"bre\,, n. [F. fibre, L. fibra.]

  1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

  2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant. [WordNet sense 1]

  3. the inherent complex of attributes that determine a person's moral and ethical actions and reactions; sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber. [WordNet sense 2]

    Syn: character, fibre.

    Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force.
    --Chapman.

  4. A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.

  5. (Nutrition) that portion of food composed of carbohydrates which are completely or partly indigestible, such as cellulose or pectin; it may be in an insoluble or a soluble form. It provides bulk to the solid waste and stimulates peristalsis in the intestine. It is found especially in grains, fruits, and vegetables. There is some medical evidence which indicates that diets high in fiber reduce the risk of colon cancer and reduce cholesterol levels in the blood. It is also called dietary fiber, roughage, or bulk.

  6. a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth. [WordNet sense 3]

    Syn: fibre, vulcanized fiber.

    Fiber gun, a kind of steam gun for converting, wood, straw, etc., into fiber. The material is shut up in the gun with steam, air, or gas at a very high pressure which is afterward relieved suddenly by letting a lid at the muzzle fly open, when the rapid expansion separates the fibers.

    Fiber plants (Bot.), plants capable of yielding fiber useful in the arts, as hemp, flax, ramie, agave, etc.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bulk

mid-15c., "a heap," earlier "ship's cargo" (mid-14c.), from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse bulki "a heap; ship's cargo," thus "goods loaded loose" (perhaps literally "rolled-up load"), from Proto-Germanic *bul-, from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole).\n

\nMeaning extended by confusion with obsolete bouk "belly" (from Old English buc "body, belly," from Proto-Germanic *bukaz; see bucket), which led to sense of "size," first attested mid-15c.

bulk

"swell, become more massive," 1550s (usually with up), from bulk (n.). Related: Bulked; bulking.

Wiktionary
bulk

  1. being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.) n. 1 size, mass or volume. 2 The major part of something. v

  2. 1 To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent. 2 To grow in size; to swell or expand.

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WordNet
bulk

  1. n. the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; "the majority of his customers prefer it"; "the bulk of the work is finished" [syn: majority] [ant: minority]

  2. the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports" [syn: mass, volume]

  3. the property possessed by a large mass

  4. v. stick out or up; "The parcel bulked in the sack"

  5. cause to bulge or swell outwards [syn: bulge]

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Wikipedia
Bulk

Bulk can refer to: small products sold and transportaded to other part

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Usage examples of "bulk".

Reason-Principle: in the same way what gives an organism a certain bulk is not itself a thing of magnitude but is Magnitude itself, the abstract Absolute, or the Reason-Principle.

Once again, he found himself looking at the dark bulk of the aggressor ship as it came about and aimed its weapons ports.

I presume, to the absorption of some included albuminous matter, these substances are not digested, and are not appreciably, if at all, reduced in bulk.

At present, in Great Britain at least, the headmasters entrusted with the education of the bulk of the influential men of the next decades are conspicuously second-rate men, forced and etiolated creatures, scholarship boys manured with annotated editions, and brought up under and protected from all current illumination by the kale-pot of the Thirty-nine Articles.

Compared with the Constitutional Document, with its 7,000 words more or less, the bulk of material requiring to be noticed in the preparation of an annotation of this kind is simply immense.

There was ra - ather more than suspicion another man planned the frauds and got away with the bulk of the money.

Rank dictated the positions of some, like those holding magistracies, priesthoods, augurships, but the bulk of the senators were at liberty to distribute themselves among cronies and settle to partake of viands the bottomless purse of Young Marius had provided.

She got down on her hands and knees and crept from hiding place to hiding place, always keeping the bulk of a chest or an aumbry between herself and the killer.

All these troops and the bulk of their materiel depended, to get ashore safely, on beaching or small landing craft.

She hung up, and a moment later, screaming in her nightgown, pillowless but still in curlers, she filled the window frame, pouring the vast bipartite bulk with which I was so familiar into the window box, over the ice plants, and thrusting both her hands into the fleshy, pale-red leaves.

And after a long time there, watching what it was the great bones of this world did upon the wastes of Bleer, I gave up bulk and went up onto the stones to find my friends.

Standing three paces from Uchitel and the blubbery bulk of the woman, he fired three spaced shots.

But there was good provision for the lesser gentry, and the names of Sudeley and Boteler and Tracey and Lacey and Noel bulked large.

From these feet let the witness infer our whole massive Hercules, a bulk that sprawls and stretches beyond the rivers through the tunnels piercing their beds and that towers into the skies with innumerable tops--a Hercules blent of Briareus and Cerberus, but not so bad a monster as it seemed then to threaten becoming.

Scotland ere the bulk of English arms caught up to them was bruited about, there was a roar of general acclamation for the newmade sovereign.