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noun

magnitude in three dimensions: a ship of great bulk.

the greater part; main mass or body: The bulk of the debt was paid.

goods or cargo not in packages or boxes, usually transported in large volume, as grain, coal, or petroleum.

fiber (def. 9).

(of paper, cardboard, yarn, etc.) thickness, especially in relation to weight.

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the body of a living creature.

bulk mail.

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adjective

being or traded in bulk: bulk grain.

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verb (used without object)

to increase in size; expand; swell.

10.

to be of or give the appearance of great weight, size, or importance: The problem bulks large in his mind.

11.

(of paper, cardboard, yarn, etc.) to be of or to acquire a specific thickness, especially in relation to weight.

12.

to gather, form, or mix into a cohesive or uniform mass.

verb (used with object)

13.

to cause to swell, grow, or increase in weight or thickness.

14.

to gather, bring together, or mix.

Verb phrase

15.

bulk up, to increase the bulk of, especially by increasing the thickness of: Adding four chapters will bulk up the book.

Idiom

16.

in bulk,

unpackaged: Fresh orange juice is shipped from Florida in bulk.

in large quantities: Those who buy in bulk receive a discount.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English bolke heap, cargo, hold < Old Norse bulki cargo, ship's hold

Synonyms
1. See size¹.

Pronunciation note
Bulk and bulge most often are pronounced with the vowel

[uh] of buck. In South Midland and Southern U.S. the [oo] of book and bull commonly occurs among all speakers. Standard British speech has only [uh]. EXPANDBoth types exist in British regional speech, and both were brought to the colonies, where each came to predominate in a different area and was carried west by migration

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Example Sentences

Brand your listings with your own logo and save money when you buy in bulk.

The bulk of that amount was a bequest, and some of it comes from the couple's family foundation.

In fact, it is not clear whether a federal law banning bulk water exports would trump provincial authority over natural resources.

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Brand your listings with your own logo and save money when you buy in bulk.

The bulk of that amount was a bequest, and some of it comes from the couple's family foundation.

In fact, it is not clear whether a federal law banning bulk water exports would trump provincial authority over natural resources.

Larger burlap bags are sometimes used to ship specialty, bulk and green coffee beans.

In aerobic exercises flow of blood enter in brain fast so bulk of hippo campus improveExercises also useful to turn away anxiety.

Above, within the main bulk of the pyramid, the second tunnel system leads up to a series of funerary vaults.

And she saves money by taking advantage of bulk bargains.

Court system refuses to make them available for bulk download.

Short-term trips, which had been growing in popularity, accounted for the bulk of the declines.

The bulk of the rise came from energy, but food also loomed large.

Waste-free lunches are also economical, relying on bulk foods and reusable packaging to cut down on trash.

Part of the problem is that the bulk of your bulk is stored inside fat cells.

When the eggs hatch, the larvae bulk up by eating the host's innards.

The trunk will then bulk out and you can prune short branches to create flowering spurs.

Buying hot chocolate mix in bulk saves having to rip open the little packages.

Some publishers offer discounts to scholars and to people who order in bulk.

Over the long run they provide the bulk of equity investors' returns.

Asia's leaf monkeys take their name from the lush jungle foliage that makes up the bulk of their diets.

The current best guess is that the bulk of the normal matter is trapped in giant gaseous filaments.

Bison-backed dinosaurs would have been obligated to take up a different posture to handle all that extra bulk.

Don't miss the treats in the old-fashioned bulk candy bin.

Less expensive commodity cluster machines now make up the bulk of supercomputers.

Others have spouses who carry the bulk of the family financial load, including providing health insurance.

But the rational response to uncertainty is not inaction: it is action based on the bulk of the evidence.

These pieces will form the bulk of the diaper and prevent leakage.

Absorption by the bulk of the other gases is negligible.

Most lobstermen bait their traps with salted fish parts because the rank stuff is available in bulk and easy to use.

Don't rule out the bottom shelf, you can find good-value bulk wines there.

Immediately noticeable is the phone's physical bulk.

Not important, said the bulk of professors surveyed for the study that was detailed in the paper.

The government relies on indirect taxes for the bulk of its revenue.

Another year of feeding at sea may give him the bulk and the strength to win his own domain.

Nevertheless, the bulk of climate science suggests that similar events will become more frequent and severe in the future.

Reflecting general trends in broadcasting, the bulk of the material comes from conversations and interviews.

Its deep drawers provide storage for kitchen utensils and bulk supplies.

Powered phone cases usually add too much extra heft and bulk to a cell phone.

Of course, the larger the organization, the more likely that the bulk of that communicating will involve writing.

In short, none of the luxuries denied to the taxpayers who actually own the bulk of the organisation.

But such toxins don't deter several fish species from feeding on the ample bulk of the cold water-loving jellyfish.

It took all three of us to muscle the slippery black bulk of the pilot whale into the screaming blur of the band-saw blade.

In the background looms the pastry cook's bulk of the city hall.

Try to time the bulk of your uploading during hours of low net congestion.

But that doesn't mean you have to bulk it up to steroidal proportions to be taken seriously.

The bulk of population growth is expected to come from the developing world.

While other snakes can grow longer, they cannot match the anaconda's length and bulk.

The shattering can produce a quark-gluon plasma, a bulk form of quarks and gluons.

They will bulk out your annual review paket which is used for merit increases.

But the bulk of costs are incurred in the development phase between early-stage and market.

Scientists agree that the bulk of the state's vast underground repositories of water are still clean.

They then cloned the genetic material and eventually used fruit fly cells to produce the protein in bulk.

Smaller outfits saw the crisis as an opportunity to bulk up by hiring experienced staff from struggling or failing banks.

The zip and snap pockets come in handy and secures your items without adding extra bulk to the shorts.

The complex models are not to be trusted for details, but they generally converge on the bulk predictions.

Those companies will then take on the bulk of the research effort.

Yet, the bulk of them are old ideas dusted off after years of storage.

He was looking for a warmer jacket without the bulk.

Direct instruction applies to the tools and the framework, but the bulk of the subject requires innovation.

The sheer chance shearing of the bulk of our crust into an orbiting body has to be a minimal.

Elephant ivory-ranging from full tusks to trinkets-accounted for the bulk of the site's wildlife offerings.

Lunging faster than their bulk should allow, the two testosterone-crazed males tear at each other with sharp canine teeth.

The following are widely available in bags or in bulk from nurseries and landscape supply centers:.

The dead star's extra bulk could rule out several theories about what these dense.

Madoff's huge investment fraud to claim a tax deduction related to the bulk of their losses.

The bulk of state investments in banks has been in preferred stock, rather than in the purest form of capital.

The bulk of them were destroyed or sold as scrap metal.

He sold razors in bulk to banks so they could give them away with new deposits.

Officials say the police are simply after tax evaders and smugglers who buy in bulk for resale.

The poorest will have the bulk of their income in the form of.

And the more acidic the water, the harder it is for corals to deposit the skeletal structures that form the bulk of the reef.

Your e-mail holds the bulk of your online information.

Chuck was also a pioneer in the bulk storage of petrochemicals.

The vast bulk of the banana family is made up of the starchy cooking bananas and plantains grown as a staple.

New studies offer a tantalizing suggestion that certain programs may work-but the bulk of the research is murky.

Landscape supply companies will deliver bulk orders.

Ravenstein, will render more efficient service than many a volume of greater bulk and.

But for the vast bulk of academics, clever use of time will become an even greater imperative.

They decided to buy a single beverage in bulk to save money, but they wanted to choose which one in as.

But when pickings are slim, they bide their time to bulk up for an extended journey in search of.

The bulk of his evidence consists of correlations he observes between sounds in nature and those in.

Currently, companies put an enormous amount of time and money into choosing which carrier will handle the bulk of their packages.

The bulk of the evidence is that hurricane power will go up, but in some places it will go down.

Taxes of varying kinds form the bulk of governments' revenues.

Vending machines handle the bulk of the culinary duties.

The bulk of its net foreign-currency receipts now comes from capital inflows, not the current-account surplus.

Trip weight and bulk should be your chief concern when packing your camera for hiking or biking.

However, if you are being asked to foot the bulk of the bill, the game changes.

As for collections, they seem to send out bulk inquiries to panels a little too willingly.

The bulk of global output will be produced in the emerging world.

But the bulk of the added costs are borne by the earliest models.

Hmmmmmaybe they all got a bulk discount on their doctorates.

Buying in bulk is a tried and tested way of bringing down prices.

Each year the bulk of spent coffee grounds are sent directly to landfills.

Using gold as a sensor in this way could never have been predicted from what is known about gold in bulk.

It's all quite strange, and out of step with the bulk of vampire fiction that has come before.

According to the survey results, business matters take up the bulk of board-meeting agendas.

The bulk went on training, technology and reporting systems.

Optical negative refraction in bulk metamaterials of nanowires.

But they still won't know what genes do, which is where the bulk of the work will lie in the coming years and decades.

Accountants, particularly auditors and consultants, do not do the bulk of their jobs inside their offices.

The recession has prompted businesses and advertisers, which account for the bulk of its income, to cut back on mailing.

Reindeer carry the bulk of the expedition gear, a mode of portage that's close to the land and environmentally low-impact.

Whether logging or clearing land for agriculture, the bulk of the world's forests have fallen to crops, cattle or younger trees.

But we've come to the conclusion that this is some kind of bulk collection.

Most adjuncts won't be eligible for unemployment in any case, since they don't rely on it for the bulk of their income.

But that is trivial beside the potential loss of bulk mail.

Unfortunately the bulk of our populations live in areas where they are neutral to a frank negative.

Many have the bulk of their academic experience in the for-profit education industry.

And if ethanol can be made cheaply from cellulose, then so can a lot of other bulk chemicals.

The medieval cathedral loomed above the city, almost sinister in its bulk.

Wow, considering that fossil fuels currently supply the bulk of our transportation energy needs that is quite a claim.

Immigrants are viewed as a bulk commodity, and nobody values commodities.

Start simply by buying products with limited packaging or buy in bulk so less packaging is required.

The bulk of this nitrate comes from fertilizer running off agricultural fields.

It is not, evidently, going to enter the business of bulk shipping oil products or semiconductors.

The bulk of this story was shot in about three hours, but it took me about three months to get it through the in-house process.

With the bulk of the nearly four-hour surgery over, the veterinarians and engineers start murmuring about lunch.

Second, oligarchic capitalism, in which the bulk of the power and wealth is held by a small group of individuals and families.

Though some dinosaurs reached the same length, no animal has ever equaled it in bulk.

The sheer bulk of the latest ships is also concentrating traffic in big hub ports.

These technical manuals are usually in several languages-copy only one language to save weight and bulk.

My impression is that once a sensory input has been received then the bulk of the work begins in the brain.

In almost every case they did so only once the government had got through the bulk of its legislative business.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun Architecture.

a structure, as a stall, projecting from the front of a building.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English: stall; apparently special use of bulk¹

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World English Dictionary

bulk (bʌlk)

—n
1.	volume, size, or magnitude, esp when great
2.	the main part: the bulk of the work is repetitious
3.	a large body, esp of a person: he eased his bulk out of the chair
4.	the part of food which passes unabsorbed through the digestive system: he eased his bulk out of the chair
5.	unpackaged cargo or goods
6.	a ship's cargo or hold
7.	printing
	a. the thickness of a number of sheets of paper or cardboard
	b. the thickness of a book excluding its covers
8.	(plural) copies of newspapers sold in bulk at a discounted price to hotels, airlines, etc which issue them free to their customers
9.	in bulk
	a. in large quantities
	b. (of a cargo, etc) unpackaged

—vb
10.	to cohere or cause to cohere in a mass
11.	to place, hold, or transport (several cargoes of goods) in bulk
12.	bulk large to be or seem important or prominent: the problem bulked large in his mind

usage The use of a plural noun after bulk was formerly considered incorrect, but is now acceptable

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Word Origin & History

bulk

mid-15c., from O.N. bulki "a heap, ship's cargo," thus "goods loaded loose," perhaps lit. "rolled-up load," from P.Gmc. *bul-, from PIE *bhl-, from base *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell" (see bole). Meaning extended by confusion with obsolete bouk "belly" (from O.E. buc, from P.Gmc.

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*bukaz, from PIE root meaning "to swell"), which led to sense of "size," first attested mid-15c.

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