bulk
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Is bulk a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.uncountable
2. (countable) A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.countable
3. (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.countableuncountable
4. (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.countableuncountable
5. (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.countableuncountable
6. (obsolete) The body.Examples: "...haunted the chocolate-houses, beat the watch, lay on bulks, and got claps;"; "Methought I had, and often did I strive To yield the ghost, but still the envious flood Stopped in my soul and would not let it forth To find the empty, vast, and wand'ring air, But smothered it within my panting bulk, Who almost burst to belch it in the sea."; "little Cupide stroue Within her bulke, because that she had woue The web that wrought Nastagio all his woe"countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.Examples: "The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment."; "Last, behold on Juss’s right hand, yon lord that bulks mighty as Hercules yet steppeth lightly as a heifer."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.intransitive
3. (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.intransitive
4. (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.transitive
5. (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to; to bulk out.Examples: "Some of the towne dwellers haue ſo large an opinion of their ſetled prouiſion, that if all her Maieſties fleet at once ſhould put into their bay, within twelue dayes warning with ſo much double beere, beefe, fiſh and bisket they would bulke them as they could wallow away with."obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary