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  • 1bulk — bulk1 [bulk] n. [ME, heap, cargo < ON bulki, a heap, ship s cargo; prob. < IE base * bhel : see BALL1] 1. size, mass, or volume, esp. if great 2. the main mass or body of something; largest part or portion [the bulk of one s fortune] 3.… …

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  • 2bulk — ► NOUN 1) the mass or size of something large. 2) the greater part. 3) a large mass or shape. 4) (before another noun ) large in quantity: bulk orders. 5) roughage in food. ► VERB 1) be of great size or importanc …

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  • 3size — size1 /suyz/, n., v., sized, sizing. n. 1. the spatial dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or bulk of anything: the size of a farm; the size of the fish you caught. 2. considerable or great magnitude: to seek size rather than quality. 3. one of a …

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  • 4bulk — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. size, quantity, measure, amount, volume; mass, expanse; body; generality, majority. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Size] Syn. magnitude, mass, extent, size, volume, amount, quantity, weight, heft, largeness,… …

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  • 5bulk — [14] Formally, bulk comes from Old Norse búlki, which meant ‘cargo’ or ‘heap’: the original connotation of the English word in this sense was thus of goods loaded loose, in heaps, rather than neatly packed up. That is the source of the phrase in… …

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  • 6bulk — noun 1》 the mass or magnitude of something large.     ↘a large mass or shape.     ↘[as modifier] large in quantity: a bulk supplier. 2》 the greater part: the bulk of the traffic had passed. 3》 roughage in food. 4》 cargo in an unpackaged mass.… …

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  • 7bulk — [14] Formally, bulk comes from Old Norse búlki, which meant ‘cargo’ or ‘heap’: the original connotation of the English word in this sense was thus of goods loaded loose, in heaps, rather than neatly packed up. That is the source of the phrase in… …

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  • 8bulk large — be of great size or importance. → bulk …

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  • 9bulk — n. 1. Magnitude, size, volume, mass, dimensions. 2. Largeness, bulkiness, great size, bigness, massyness, massiveness, greatness, amplitude. 3. Majority, mass, body, major part, most, main part, greater part, principal part …

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  • 10Bulk — (b[u^]lk), n. [OE. bulke, bolke, heap; cf. Dan. bulk lump, clod, OSw. bolk crowd, mass, Icel. b?lkast to be bulky. Cf. {Boll}, n., {Bile} a boil, {Bulge}, n.] 1. Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great… …

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