Crossword clues for bulge
bulge
- Love handle?
- Jut out
- "Tales From the ___"
- 1944-45 battle
- Midriff affliction
- WW II battle
- World War II's Battle of the ___
- Swell slightly
- Swell outwards
- Start to swell
- Spandex danger
- Slight swelling
- Roundish protrusion
- Round projection
- Pregnancy tipoff
- Muffin top, e.g
- Dieter's annoyance
- Beer belly, say
- Be ready to burst, maybe
- 1944 battle
- "Battle of the __"
- Expansion of a sort
- Overeater's worry
- Shoplifter's giveaway, perhaps
- Evidence of a concealed weapon, maybe
- Dieter's problem
- Shoplifter's tip-off, maybe
- Potbelly, e.g.
- Dieter's loss
- Protrude outward
- Middle-age spread
- Protruding part
- Listening device left in - note something sticking out
- Learner advances in brass instrument – that's swell
- Rounded swelling
- Boy cut all gorging, ankles progressively swelling
- Hitler's offensive swelling
- Stick out slightly
- Sudden increase
- Battle of the ___ (Ardennes conflict)
- Potbelly, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bulge \Bulge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bulged; p. pr. & vb. n. Bulging.]
To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.
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To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.
--Broome.
Bulge \Bulge\ (b[u^]lj), n. [OE. bulge a swelling; cf. AS. belgan to swell, OSw. bulgja, Icel. b[=o]lginn swollen, OHG. belgan to swell, G. bulge leathern sack, Skr. b[.r]h to be large, strong; the root meaning to swell. Cf. Bilge, Belly, Billow, Bouge, n.]
The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.
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(Naut.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
Bulge ways. (Naut.) See Bilge ways.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "wallet, leather bag," from Old French bouge, boulge "wallet, pouch, leather bag," or directly from Latin bulga "leather sack" (see budget (n.)). Sense of "a swelling" is first recorded 1620s. Bilge (q.v.) might be a nautical variant.
"to protrude, swell out," 1670s, from bulge (n.). Related: Bulged; bulging.
Wiktionary
n. 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 (context nautical English) The bilge of a vessel. 4 (context colloquial English) The outline of a man's penis and testicles visible through clothing. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To stick out from (a surface). 2 (context intransitive English) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
WordNet
v. swell or protrude outwards; "His eyes bulged with surprise" [syn: pouch, protrude]
bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge [syn: bag]
bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: protrude, pop, pop out, bulge out, bug out, come out]
cause to bulge or swell outwards [syn: bulk]
n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form [syn: bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
Wikipedia
In astronomy, a bulge is a tightly packed group of stars within a larger formation. The term almost exclusively refers to the central group of stars found in most spiral galaxies (see galactic spheroid). Bulges were historically thought to be elliptical galaxies that happened to have a disk of stars around them, but high-resolution images using the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that many bulges lie at the heart of a spiral galaxy. It is now thought that there are at least two types of bulges: bulges that are like ellipticals and bulges that are like spiral galaxies.
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Usage examples of "bulge".
The heat was very much stronger than he had expected, and he had to duck his Plexiglas mask away when the near end of the admin building bulged out and then collapsed in a wall of flame.
Chapter Eight The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron, syringas, and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path.
Just as we were starting on again the voortrekker, whom I had set to watch at a little distance, ran up with his eyes bulging out of his head, and reported that he had seen a Basuto with an assegai hanging about in the bush, as though to keep touch with us, after which we delayed no more.
Anji spotted several televisions flickering amidst the mess, each one an old valve job with a Bakelite casing and bulging screen.
Mexican banderilleros with huge slouched hats and pistols bulging from their belts.
The survey of the Egyptian officers shows an oval extending from north-west to south-east, with four baylets or bulges in the northern shore.
His uniform shirt was tight without the armor, and through the thin material she saw bulging biceps, powerful pectorals, and a host of manly muscles.
His huge hands flexed into even more massive fists, his great teeth bared into a fierce grimace, and his biceps bulged, straining through his shirt.
His evening clothes tightly hugged every masculine muscle from his bulging biceps to the powerful quadriceps in his thighs.
The biceps in his upper arms bulged around the silver bands with the small turquoise stones.
His biceps bulged under the tight fabric above his elbow and she stared a moment before pulling her gaze away, annoyed at herself.
The second was a small, fat, blobby, bulging boy who was chewing something.
The wide, blubbery lips, the speading nose with its clear-red tip, the bulging eyes.
The small book-crammed sitting room of the Mifflins, the sparkling fire, the lively chirrup of the bookseller reading aloud--and there, in the old easy chair whose horsehair stuffing was bulging out, that blue-eyed vision of careless girlhood!
A dog, its ribs bulging, trotted across the street in front of Bowie toward the depot.