Bulk

Definitions: Bulk

Bulk

Adjective

1. Large in quantity or volume; "a bulk buy"; "bulk mailing".

Noun

1. 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".

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".

3. The property possessed by a large mass.

Verb

1. Stick out or up; "The parcel bulked in the sack".

2. Cause to bulge or swell outwards.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bulk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bulk

Ejection

Unpack, unlade, unload, unship, offload; break bulk; dump.

Greatness

Principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part; bulk, mass; (whole).

Size

Noun: size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness; Adjective: greatness; (of quantity); expanse; (space); amplitude, mass; proportions.

Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows".

Whole

Bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages; trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part; essential part; (importance).; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all.

Crosswords: Bulk

Norwegian (dent), Swedish (bulk).

References

• Western Bulk Shipping ASA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Standard and Bulk Ice Cream (reference)

• The World Market for Mineral Wools in Bulk, Sheets, or Rolls: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Bulk Metallic Glasses: Symposium Held December 1-3, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.a (Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings, V. 554.) (reference)

• Compound Semicond Bulk Mat Charac (reference)

• From Quarks to Bulk Matter (reference)

• Mechanics of bulk materials handling (reference)

• Processing and Properties of High-Tc Superconductors: Bulk Materials (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Australian Bulk Handling Review (reference)

• Bulk Carrier Register (reference)

• Bulk Handling International (reference)

• Bulk Materials International (reference)

• Bulk Solids Handling (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Bulk (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• PHOENIX GOLD WP-1 Bulk Wall Plate Inserts (reference)

• Imation 3 1/2in. Bulk Diskettes, IBM Format, DS/HD, Rainbow, Box Of 30 (reference)

• Office Depot 3 1/2in. Bulk Diskettes, IBM Format, DS/HD, Black, Box Of 25 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• FoodSaver 2-Quart Bulk Storage Canister by Tilia (reference)

• Tilia 2005301 6-Quart Bulk Storage Canister (reference)

• Freud 900-00 Size 00 Biscuit Splines - Bulk Pack (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A modified catamaran takes mobile current profiles with an acoustic digital current profiler (ADCP) as a large bulk carrier passes under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge heading up the bay. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A view of filling a bulk carrier ship with phosphate at the piers at Nauru as seen from the NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Bulk bread products in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk canned goods in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk salad dressing in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk dry goods in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk products in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk vegetables in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk meat products in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk fruit and vegetables in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Most libraries would be terribly diminished in bulk.

In front, they had the bulk of the army.

Casy and Joad struggled up and walked back toward the black bulk of the house.

That the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by laboring every day for small wages to make a few live plentifully.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Surgery involves adding bulk to the paralyzed vocal cord or changing its position. (references)

The implant adds bulk and helps to close the urethra to reduce stress incontinence. (references)

Doctors, nurses, and other professionals can order bulk quantities of materials for patients or sets of reproduction masters. (references)

Business

Private ports today handle 85 percent of bulk cargo. (references)

A bulk of these sales is to the training institutions. (references)

For bulk products, the information is only required on the bulk container. (references)

Civil Liberties

Armenia

When shipped in bulk, publications of Jehovah's Witnesses are seized at the border. (references)

Bangladesh

The activities of the Prime Minister occupy the bulk of prime time news bulletins on both television and radio, followed by the activities of members of the Cabinet. (references)

Croatia

The HRT continued to enjoy an overwhelming advantage as the recipient of the bulk of advertising revenues and increased subsidies from government taxes on television users. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

Some bakeries are seeking bulk mixes as well. (references)

Costa Rica

These companies comprise the bulk of Mexican exports. (references)

Bulgaria

A handful of high end, bulk bakers exist in the larger cities. (references)

Human Rights

Panama

However, many public defenders are appointed late in the investigation, and the prosecutor already may have evaluated the bulk of the evidence and made a decision to recommend trial or the dismissal of the charges. (references)

Minorities

Angola

In addition approximately 30,000 Portuguese citizens live in the country, forming the bulk of the nonrefugee expatriate community. (references)

Indonesia

While many reside in Singapore, there also are sizeable Sino-Indonesian populations in Australia and the U.S. Prominent Sino-Indonesians estimate that approximately half of the Sino-Indonesian men living abroad occasionally return to their homes for short visits to protect their remaining business interests, but most keep their families and the bulk of their capital offshore or in other parts of the country. (references)

Political Economy

NIGERIA

The import of vegetable oil in bulk is banned. (references)

Mozambique

The primary exports are shrimp, sugar, cotton, cashew nuts, and bulk electric power. (references)

IRELAND

Personal income and consumption taxes form the bulk of total government tax revenue. (references)

Trade

Bangladesh

Milk food can be imported in cans and in bulk. (references)

France

In general, large commercial banks provide the bulk of export financing. (references)

Guatemala

The overwhelming bulk of credit is allocated by commercial banks on market terms. (references)

Travel

Qatar

Bulk shipments are handled at the nine-berth Umm Said port, 30 miles south of Doha. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Over the past two years, freight rates from the United States have decreased considerably due to bulk service provided by Lykes Lines and Maersk Lines. (references)

Nicaragua

Puerto Sandino, also located on the Pacific Coast, is primarily used for the import of crude petroleum and bulk cargo, such as fertilizer, clinker and steel. (references)

Worker Rights

Haiti

The Government devotes the bulk of its entire social welfare budget to combating the trafficking of children. (references)

Russia

The FNPR inherited the bulk of the property of its Soviet predecessors, including office and recreational property. (references)

Philippines

Working at a piece rate in the unloading of bulk cargo they are exposed to harmful dust and chemicals in the ships' holds. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bulk": Barrel bulk ♦ break bulk ♦ bulk buying ♦ bulk cargo ♦ bulk carrier ♦ bulk commodity ♦ bulk discount ♦ bulk goods ♦ bulk handler ♦ bulk head off ♦ bulk inclusive tour ♦ bulk large ♦ bulk mail ♦ bulk modulus ♦ bulk mortgage ♦ bulk petroleum product ♦ bulk price ♦ bulk purchaser ♦ bulk transportation ♦ bulk up ♦ centre of immersed bulk ♦ contract bulk inclusive tour ♦ goods in bulk ♦ in bulk ♦ Laden in bulk ♦ sale by bulk ♦ sell in bulk ♦ signal to erased signal ratio after bulk erasure ♦ stowed in bulk ♦ To break bulk. Additional references.

Beginning with "bulk": bulk-boosting, bulk-buy, bulk-buying, bulk-buys, bulk-carriers, bulk-channel, bulk-chemicals, bulk-destined, bulk-discount, bulk-flow, bulk-forming, bulk-gas, bulk-heads, bulk-loaded, bulk-shop, bulk-washing.

Ending with "bulk": low-bulk.

Afrikaan

grootte (dimension, extend, size). (various references)

Albanian

trup (bodice, body, build, case, constitution, flesh, frame, personnel, shaft, staff), sasi e madhe (avalanche, bagful, deal, heap, load, mint, ream, rout), pjesë më e madhe (heft), pjesë kryesore (body, heart), ngarkesë e anijes (floating cargo), madhësi (dimension, ensemble, gauge, greatness, largeness, loftiness, magnificence, magnitude, majesty, operand, quantity, rout, size), korpus (corps, corpus), kam madhësi, jam me rëndësi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتلة (agglomerate, agglomeration, bloc, block, body, chunk, clot, cluster, conglomeration, hunch, knob, lump, mass), ‏معظم الشىء, ‏حجم (dimension, extent, flinch, format, funk, gage, girth, magnitude, measure, measurement, proportion, refrain, size, volume), ‏تراكم (accumulate, accumulation, bank, collect, collection, cumulation, drift, gathering, inure, pack, pile, piling up, press), ‏عظم (become mighty, bone, ennoble, enthrone, exaggerate, glorify, glory, loftiness, magnify, os, pinnacle, value), ‏جسم جسد, ‏جسد (body, bone, corpus, embody, externalize, frame, impersonate, incarnate, incorporate, materialize, model, mold, mould, personate, personify, reify, shape, substantiate), ‏شحنة غير معبئة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

размери (dimensions, magnitude, measure, measurements, proportions, size), тяло (body, corps, figure, flesh, form, frame, person, personage, umbrella), товар (burden, burthen, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, freightage, goods, imposition, lading, load, loading, tax, tie, tote, weight), корпус (body, carcass, corps, fuselage, housing, shell), обем (capacity, content, contents, largeness, mass, size, volume), натрупвам на камари, натрупан на камари, налагам се (domineer, lay down the law), маса (accumulation, aggregation, body, concretion, crowd, gross, heap, heaps of, herd, lashings, lot, lump, mass, oodles, pack, regiment, ruck, scad, shoal, slathers, stack, swarm, table, volume, volumes). (various references)

Chinese 

�"積 (volume), 大块 (Chunk, Chunky). (various references)

Czech

velikost (grandeur, greatness, largeness, quantity, size), objem (cubic capacity, extent, stretch, volume), množství (amount, lot, many, measure, multitude, number, plurality, quantity, quantum, shoal, volume), masa (mass), lodní náklad (ship-carriage). (various references)

Danish

bulk, volumen (volume), tusindedel, substrat (substrate), størrelse (dimension, extend, grandeur, greatness, size), slagger (ballast, bulking agents, clinker, dross, indigestible material, slag), ryg (back), omfang (circumference, outskirts, periphery), kostfibre (ballast, bulking agents, crude fiber, dietary fiber, dietary fibres, indigestible material, unavailable carbohydrates), fyldstof (ballast, bulking agent, encrusting substance, extender, extender pigment, filler, incrusting substance, loading, padding, size, sizing). (various references)

Dutch

omvang (dimension, extend, size), grootte (dimension, extend, grandeur, greatness, measure, measurement, size), bestek (dimension, extend, reckoning, room, size, space, specifications). (various references)

Esperanto

amplekso (dimension, extend, size). (various references)

Farsi 

لش (Sluggish), حجم (Content, Mass, Volume), تنه (Body, Corpus, Frame, Jostle, Push, Shove, Stem, Stock, Trunk), توده (Aggregate, Barrow, Bloc, Block, Clot, Cob, Congeries, Gross, Heap, Hill, Lump, Mass, Midden, Oodles, Pile, Pyre, Rick, Riffraff, Shock, Stack, Volume, Wad), جسم (Body, Corpus, Material, Metal, Substance), جسامت , جثه , اندازه (Deal, Dimension, Extent, Gauge, Indicator, Limit, Measure, Quantity, Scale, Size, Span, Tract), انباشتن (Accumulate, Agglomerate, Assemble, Cumulate, Garner, Hill, Hoard, Hoarding, Stack, Stash, Stow, Stuff), اکثریت (Majority), بصورت توده جمع کردن . (various references)

Finnish

bulkki, tasa-aine, täyttävä aine (ballast, bulking agent), pulkki, laajuus (comprehensiveness, dimension, extend, extensiveness, extent, range scope, size, width), koheus. (various references)

French

grandeur, ampleur. (various references)

German

masse (assets, crowd, dimensions, dollop, estate, heaps, horde, host, lump, mass, mixture, mob, pile, stacks), größe (area, bigness, deepness, dimensions, extent, giant, grandeur, greatness, growth, heft, height, important figure, largeness, magnificence, magnitude, measurement, quantity, significance, sizableness, size, swell, tallness, variable, vastness), abschnittweise. (various references)

Greek 

κύριο μέροσ (gist), όγκοσ (bunch, clump, excrescence, gobbet, growth, hump, hunch, lump, mass, neoplasm, nub, tumor, tumour, volume), όγκος (growth, tumour, volume), έρμα (ballast), έχω όγκο ή μέγεθοσ, ράχη (backboard, ridge, spine, tergum), πλάτη (back), χιλιοστό (mill), χονδρικόσ (gross, wholesale), εσωτερικό (interior), εσωτερική μάζα, δύσπεπτες ουσίες (ballast, bulking agents, indigestible material), διόγκωση (blowing, bulging, cheese blowing, dilatation, dilation, expansion, flipper, foam blowing, foaming, intumescence, irradiation swelling, plastic foaming, strand bulging, swell, swelling, to swell, volume). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממ�" (dimension, extent, measure, measurement, mensuration), ל�"ראות �'�"ול, תפזורת, כללי (common, general, generic, sketchy, universal), כולל (comprehensive, included, including, inclusive, total), �'וש (block, body, clod, hunk, lump, mass), צובר. (various references)

Hungarian

terjedelem (content, coverage, dimension, expanse, extend, extension, extent, footage, largeness, latitude, magnitude, purview, quantity, range, reach, size, spread, stretching). (various references)

Icelandic

stærð (dimension, extend, grandeur, greatness, size). (various references)

Indonesian

terbesar (biggest, hugest, largest, major), penting (important, momentous, note worthy). (various references)

Italian

massa (body, crowd, earth, ground, heap, lump, mass, mob, multitude, pack, paste, welter). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

嵩 (quantity, volume). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かさ (halo, hat, parasol, quantity, ring, shade, umbrella, volume). (various references)

Korean 

부�"�. (various references)

Manx

thummid (accumulation, bank, batch, batch of things, size, volume), mooads (bigness, largeness, magnitude, stature), lught (batch, batch of numbers, burden, cargo, cast, complement, content, freight, load, train, train of personage). (various references)

Norwegian

størrelse (dimension, extend, grandeur, greatness, size). (various references)

Papiamen

tamaño (dimension, extend, size). (various references)

Pig Latin

ulkbay

Portuguese

volume (capacitance, capacity, content, contents, fullness, fulness, massiness, measure, parcel, size, tome, volume), massa (aggregate, bawbee, cob, dough, gross, havings, lump, mass, massive, mummy, pad, paste, squash). (various references)

Romanian

volum (book, capacity, content, measure, size, tome, volume), se umple (choke, fill), se umfla (bag, balloon, belly out, billow, bloat out, bulge, distend, fill out, flow, ridge, swell), masã (avoirdupois, block, board, body, clump, congeries, cooking, crop, crowd, cuisine, dinner, dusty treat, feast, gross, lump, mass, meal, meat, multitude, people, repast, shoal, table, throng, tuck in), majoritatea, mårime (dimension, extend, size), mãrime (bigwig, dimensions, extent, greatness, magnitude, measure, proportion, quantity, scale, size, volume), grosime (bigness, breadth, bulkiness, depth, height, stoutness, thickness), gros (abundantly, big, blubber, bulky, coarse, compact, densely, gross, highly, podgy, quod, stiff, stout, thick, voluminous), grãmadã (aheap, assemblage, batch, block, clamp, clump, cluster, cob, collection, congeries, crowd, drift, flock, heap, host, hulk, load, lump, mass, mountain, multitude, ocean, pack, Peck, pile, power, shoal, snag, stack, throng, ton, wilderness of), creşte în volum, creşte în importanţã, cea mai mare parte (majority, mass, the best part), încãrcãturã a vasului. (various references)

Russian 

ссыпать в кучу, рыхлый (crumbly, doughy, friable, light, mealy), казаться большим, груз судна, груз (burden, cargo, consignment, embarkation, freight, incubus, jetsam, lading, load, loading, plate, stowage, weight, weighting), величина (bigness, greatness, highness, magnitude, quantity, size), основная масса, объем (amplitude, capacity, circumference, content, corpus, size, space, volume, volume of), масса (army, array, congeries, crowd, handful, heap, heaps of, lashings, lot of, lots, lots of, lotsa, mass, mountain, multitude, passel, paste, ream, regiment, ruck, stock, stuff, the million, wealth of, weight, whale, wilderness), лежащий навалом, пухлость (plumpness, pudginess, tubbiness). (various references)

Scottish

tomult, tomad , tomult, meud (extent, measure; as many as : cia). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapremina (volume), tovar (cargo, carload, cart load, lading, load, pack), svaliti na gomilu, rasut (dissipated, scattered, straggling), obim (ambit, amplitude, circumference, extent, girth, latitude, parameter, perimeter, scope, volume), natrpati (cram, cram in, heap up, jam, lumber, squeeze, stuff), glavni deo (main, main body). (various references)

Spanish

volumen (bulkiness, capacitance, dimension, edition, loudness, volume). (various references)

Swedish

volym (capacity, content, cubic capacity, extent, tome, volume), storlek (dimension, dimensions, extend, fitting, grandeur, greatness, highness, largeness, magnitude, muchness, size, volume), omfång (ambit, dimension, dimensions, distention, expanse, extend, extension, extent, range, ranging, scope, size, volume), bulk. (various references)

Tagalog

lakí (dimension, extend, size). (various references)

Thai

ความจุ. (various references)

Turkish

boy (clan, height, length, linear measurement, size, stature, tribe), büyümek (accrue, augment, enlarge, expand, extend, flourish, greaten, grow, grow up, hatch, increase, outgrow, shoot up, swell, vegetate, wax), yük (burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, goods, haul, impedimenta, imposition, impost, incident, lading, load, loading, onus, pile, plummet, shipload, shipment, stowage, strain, sumpter, tax, weight), yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, crowd, drove, flock, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, Peck, pile, raft, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), toptan (by wholesale, collectively, en bloc, gross, in bulk, in the lump, total, wholesale), kütle (aggregate, block, body, force, gob, group, mass, pack), hacim (body, capacity, gauge, volume), ekseriyet (majority, plurality), eşya (appointments, article, belongings, commodity, furniture, gear, goods, property, stuff, thing, traps, ware), cüsse, şişmek (balloon, be puffed up, become tumid, belly, bloat, bloat out, bulge, distend, expand, fill, swell, swell out, swell up, tumefy), şişirmek (bag, balloon, bloat, bloat up, blow up, distend, embroider, exaggerate, expand, fill, heave, heighten, inflate, overcharge, pad, pad out, pile it on, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put it on, put it on thick, run up, swell out, swell up, tumefy), önemli olmak (be decisive in, be important, matter), çoğunluk (generality, majority, plurality, predominance, preponderance, ruck, run, the crowd). (various references)

Ukranian 

величина (admeasurement, bigness, dimension, greatness, magnitude, quantity), великі розміри, нагромаджувати (accumulate, agglomerate, congest, crowd, pyramid, stockpile), маса (aggregation, army, body, congeries, mass, mountain), зсипати, прилавок (bar, counter, stall). (various references)

Vietnamese 

h� ng hoá phần lớn hơn. (various references)

Welsh

swm (amount, sum), cyfan.gorff (mass, whole), crynswth (aggregate, mass, whole). (various references)

Zulu

usayizi (dimension, extend, size). (various references)

onkos. (various references)

auctum, auctus, auctusque, magnitudine, magnitudinem, magnitudines, magnitudinis, magnitudo, massa, massae, massam, massas, masseas, massis, mole, molem. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bulk": bulkage, bulkages, bulked, bulkhead, bulkheads, bulkier, bulkiest, bulkily, bulkiness, bulkinesses, bulking, bulks, bulky. (additional references)

Words ending with "bulk": outbulk. (additional references)

Words containing "bulk": outbulked, outbulking, outbulks, unbulky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bulk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balkh, Belk, bilko, blu, Blumka, bluo, bolk, buak, buik, buk, buka, buko, bul, bulaki, bulo, bult, buluk, burk, Butko, bylak, Obukw, pulk, Ubik, Ulc, ulk, zulk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

+1 letter: baulk, bulks, bulky.

+2 letters: baulks, baulky, buckle, bulked.

+3 letters: baulked, blaubok, bookful, buckled, buckler, buckles, budlike, bulkage, bulkier, bulkily, bulking, bullock, bulwark, burlesk, outbulk, tublike, unblock, unbulky.

+4 letters: backhaul, baulkier, baulking, blackgum, blackout, blauboks, blesbuck, bluebook, bluejack, bluetick, bookfuls, bucklers, buckling, bucktail, buhlwork, bulkages, bulkhead, bulkiest, bullneck, bullocks, bullocky, bulwarks, burlesks, bushlike, duckbill, fullback, kabeljou, kilobaud, outbulks, pullback, rubylike, subblock, subclerk, subskill, sunblock, tubelike, unblocks, unbuckle.

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