 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bulk
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" [syn: {majority}] [ant: {minority}]
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" [syn: {mass}, {volume}]
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 [syn: {bulge}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bulk \Bulk\, noun [Icel. b[=a]lkr a beam, partition. Cf. {Balk},
n. & v.]
A projecting part of a building. [Obs.]
Here, stand behind this bulk. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bulk \Bulk\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bulked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bulking}.]
To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the
moment. --Leslie
Stephen.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bulk \Bulk\ (b[u^]lk), noun [OE. bulke, bolke, heap; cf. Dan. bulk
lump, clod, OSw. bolk crowd, mass, Icel. b?lkast to be bulky.
Cf. {Boll}, noun, {Bile} a boil, {Bulge}, noun]
1. Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size;
as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
Against these forces there were prepared near one
hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a
more nimble motion, and more serviceable. --Bacon.
2. The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion;
the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them,
''to obtain what by labor can be obtained.'' --J.
Morley.
3. (Naut.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
4. The body. [Obs.] --Shak.
My liver leaped within my bulk. --Turbervile.
{Barrel bulk}. See under {Barrel}.
{To break bulk} (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the
cargo.
{In bulk}, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate
packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape
that any desired quantity may be taken or sold.
{Laden in bulk}, {Stowed in bulk}, having the cargo loose in
the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks.
{Sale by bulk}, a sale of goods as they are, without weight
or measure.
Syn: Size; magnitude; dimension; volume; bigness; largeness;
massiveness.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fiber \Fi"ber\, Fibre \Fi"bre\,, noun [F. fibre, L. fibra.]
1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the
tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as,
the fiber of flax or of muscle.
2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a
fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender
rootlets of a plant. [WordNet sense 1]
3. the inherent complex of attributes that determine a
person's moral and ethical actions and reactions; sinew;
strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber. [WordNet
sense 2]
Syn: character, fibre.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force. --Chapman.
4. A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax,
hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
5. (Nutrition) that portion of food composed of carbohydrates
which are completely or partly indigestible, such as
cellulose or pectin; it may be in an insoluble or a
soluble form. It provides bulk to the solid waste and
stimulates peristalsis in the intestine. It is found
especially in grains, fruits, and vegetables. There is
some medical evidence which indicates that diets high in
fiber reduce the risk of colon cancer and reduce
cholesterol levels in the blood. It is also called
{dietary fiber}, {roughage}, or {bulk}.
[PJC]
6. a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper
or cloth. [WordNet sense 3]
Syn: fibre, vulcanized fiber.
[WordNet 1.5]
{Fiber gun}, a kind of steam gun for converting, wood, straw,
etc., into fiber. The material is shut up in the gun with
steam, air, or gas at a very high pressure which is
afterward relieved suddenly by letting a lid at the muzzle
fly open, when the rapid expansion separates the fibers.
{Fiber plants} (Bot.), plants capable of yielding fiber
useful in the arts, as hemp, flax, ramie, agave, etc.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
213 Moby Thesaurus words for "bulk":
accumulate, add to, agglomerate, aggrandize, aggregate, aggroup,
amass, amount, ampleness, amplify, amplitude, area, assemble,
augment, balloon, batch, best part, better part, bigness, bloat,
block, blow up, bodily size, body, boundlessness, breadth,
bring together, broaden, budget, build, build up, bulk large,
bulk out, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, caliber, chunk, clod,
clump, cluster, coarseness, collect, colligate, collocate, combine,
compare, compile, conglomerate, core, corpulence, corpus, corral,
coverage, crescendo, cumulate, depth, develop, diameter, dig up,
dilate, dimension, dimensions, distance through, distend,
draw together, dredge up, drive together, enlarge, enlargement,
enormity, enormousness, essence, exceed, expand, expanse,
expansion, extend, extension, extent, fatness, fill out, force,
formidableness, fullness, gather, gather in, gather together,
gauge, generality, get in, get together, gigantism, girth, gist,
gob, grandeur, grandness, gravamen, great scope, greaten,
greatness, grossness, group, height, hike, hike up, huff, hugeness,
hunk, immensity, increase, infinity, inflate, intensity, join,
juxtapose, largeness, length, loaf, loom, loom large, lump,
lump together, magnify, magnitude, main body, major part, majority,
make up, mass, match, matter, measure, measurement, meat, might,
mightiness, mobilize, more than half, most, muchness, muster,
nugget, numbers, object, outsoar, outstrip, overtop, pair, partner,
pat, plenitude, plurality, power, preponderance, preponderancy,
prodigiousness, proportion, proportions, puff, puff up, pump,
pump up, put together, quantity, quantum, radius, raise, rake up,
rally, range, rarefy, reach, rear, rise above, round up, scale,
scope, scrape together, size, snowball, soar, spread, stand out,
staple, strength, stretch, stupendousness, substance, sufflate,
sum, swell, take up, the greatest number, the third dimension,
thickness, thrust, total, totality, tower, tower above, transcend,
tremendousness, tumefy, up, vastness, volume, wad, whip in, whole,
widen, width
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