Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BULK

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Definitions of BULK

1. Size, specifically, volume.
2. Any huge body or structure.
3. The major part of something.
4. Dietary fibre.
5. being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
6. total
7. (uncountable, transport) 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. (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
10. (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
11. (branecosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
12. (obsolete) The body.
13. (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
14. (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
15. (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
16. (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
17. (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to, to bulk out.

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Examples of Using BULK in a Sentence

• Clippers were generally narrow for their length, small by later 19th-century standards, could carry limited bulk freight, and had a large total sail area.
• Glycerides are fatty acid esters of glycerol; they are important in biology, being one of the main classes of lipids and comprising the bulk of animal fats and vegetable oils.
• It flows south and east through the Gangetic plain of North India, receiving the right-bank tributary, the Yamuna, which also rises in the western Indian Himalayas, and several left-bank tributaries from Nepal that account for the bulk of its flow.
• Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in 1727.
• There are around 100,000 matatus (minibuses), which constitute the bulk of the country's public transport system.
• The bulk of Bujold's works comprises three series: the Vorkosigan Saga, the World of the Five Gods, and the Sharing Knife series.
• The bulk of meat, vegetable, and grain requirements must be imported, contributing to a chronic trade deficit that requires large annual transfers of aid from France.
• Its vast bulk – and main asterism viewed in most European cultures per Greco-Roman antiquity as a distant pair of fishes connected by one cord each that join at an apex – are in the Northern celestial hemisphere.
• Physical chemistry, in contrast to chemical physics, is predominantly (but not always) a supra-molecular science, as the majority of the principles on which it was founded relate to the bulk rather than the molecular or atomic structure alone (for example, chemical equilibrium and colloids).
• Title Deed lands, where the bulk of high-value crops are grown (sugar, forestry, and citrus) are characterized by high levels of investment and irrigation, and high productivity.
• Charities and relief agencies raised over $657 million in the three weeks following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the vast bulk going to immediate survivors and victims' families.
• The port is Canada's third-largest by tonnage with a cargo base that includes dry and liquid bulk, break bulk, containers, and cruise.
• The ethnic groups of the coastal region, particularly Ewe and Gen language (or Mina) (the two major African languages in the south), constitute the bulk of the civil servants, professionals, and merchants, due in part to the former colonial administrations which provided greater infrastructure development in the south.
• January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths.
• Spring – Vandalic War: Anti-Vandal revolt in Tripolitania and Sardinia; Gelimer, king of the Vandals, dispatches the bulk of the Vandal fleet (120 ships and 5,000 men) under his brother Tzazo to Sardinia.
• April – May – The bulk of the Crusader army gathers at Venice, although with far smaller numbers than expected: about 12,000 men (4–5,000 knights and 8,000 soldiers) instead of 33,500 men.
• Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation.
• In this picture, the whole 3D space maps the surface of the hypersphere, whereas in the next picture the 3D space contained the shadow of the bulk hypersphere.
• The theoretical dielectric strength of a material is an intrinsic property of the bulk material, and is independent of the configuration of the material or the electrodes with which the field is applied.
• The encoding material sits atop a thicker substrate (usually polycarbonate) that makes up the bulk of the disc and forms a dust defocusing layer.
• For example, the bulk of the plains of Venus, which cover ~80% of the surface, are basaltic; the lunar maria are plains of flood-basaltic lava flows; and basalt is a common rock on the surface of Mars.
• Some occur in bulk non-magnetic metals and semiconductors, such as geometrical magnetoresistance, Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations, or the common positive magnetoresistance in metals.
• The metaphor implies that the creators showed little care for the quality of the original software, as if the new compilation or version had been created by indiscriminately adding titles "by the shovel" in the same way someone would shovel bulk material into a pile.
• Proof of payment is usually in the form of an adhesive postage stamp, but a postage meter is also used for bulk mailing.
• The high-level, strategic nature of the intelligence obtained from Tutte's crucial breakthrough, in the bulk decrypting of Lorenz-enciphered messages specifically, contributed greatly, and perhaps even decisively, to the defeat of Nazi Germany.

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