Synonyms of the word bulk


BULKBULGE - FIGURE - MAGNITUDE - MAJORITY - MASS - NUMBER - POUCH - PROTRUDE - SWELL - VOLUME

bulk

  • n. Size, mass or volume.
  • n. The major part of something.
  • n. The result of water retained by fibre.
  • n. (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
  • n. (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
  • n. (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
  • n. (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe…
  • n. (obsolete) The body.
  • adj. being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.).
  • adj. total.
  • v. To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
  • v. To grow in size; to swell or expand.

bulge

  • n. Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when…
  • n. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
  • n. (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
  • n. (colloquial) The outline of penis and testicles visible through clothing; manbulge.
  • v. (intransitive) To stick out from (a surface).
  • v. (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

figure

  • n. A drawing or diagram conveying information.
  • n. The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially,…
  • n. A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
  • n. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
  • n. (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
  • n. A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
  • n. A numeral.
  • n. A number.
  • n. A shape.
  • n. A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
  • n. A dance figure, a complex dance moveW.
  • n. A figure of speech.
  • n. (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
  • n. (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
  • n. (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single…
  • n. (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
  • v. To solve a mathematical problem.
  • v. To come to understand.
  • v. (intransitive) To be reasonable.
  • v. (transitive) To enter, be a part of.
  • v. (obsolete) To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal;…
  • v. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
  • v. (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
  • v. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
  • v. (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
  • v. (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying…
  • v. (music) To embellish.

magnitude

  • n. (uncountable, countable) The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
  • n. (countable) An order of magnitude.
  • n. (mathematics) A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically.
  • n. (mathematics) Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.
  • n. (astronomy) The apparent brightness of a star (on a negative, logarithmic scale); apparent magnitude.
  • n. (seismology) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).

majority

  • n. More than half (50%) of some group.
  • n. The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes.
  • n. (dated) Legal adulthood.
  • n. (Britain) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
  • n. Ancestors; ancestry.

mass

  • n. (physical) Matter, material.
  • n. A large quantity; a sum.
  • n. (quantity) Large in number.
  • v. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses;…
  • v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
  • adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
  • adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
  • n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
  • n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
  • n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

number

  • n. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
  • n. (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
  • n. (countable, mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers,…
  • n. (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence…
  • n. Quantity.
  • n. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
  • n. (countable, informal) A telephone number.
  • n. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
  • n. (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
  • n. (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
  • n. (countable, informal) A person.
  • n. (countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one.
  • n. (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
  • n. (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
  • v. (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
  • v. (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
  • adj. comparative form of numb: more numb.

pouch

  • n. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  • n. A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
  • n. Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
  • n. (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
  • n. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  • n. (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  • n. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose within a pouch.
  • v. (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
  • v. (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
  • v. (obsolete) To pout.
  • v. (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.

protrude

  • v. To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
  • v. To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
  • v. To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.

swell

  • v. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
  • v. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
  • v. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
  • v. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
  • v. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
  • v. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
  • v. To protuberate; to bulge out.
  • n. The act of swelling.
  • n. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
  • n. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
  • n. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
  • n. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
  • n. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
  • n. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
  • n. (informal, dated) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.
  • n. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
  • adj. (Canada, US, informal, slang) Excellent.

volume

  • n. A unit of three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured…
  • n. Strength of sound. Measured in decibels.
  • n. The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
  • n. A bound book.
  • n. A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
  • n. Quantity.
  • n. (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended,…
  • n. (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition…

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