bulk

noun

The major part of something.

Size, specifically, volume.

Any huge body or structure.

Majority, balance.

(uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.

Gist.

Dietary fibre.

(bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.

(bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.

(countable) A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.

(brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.

(obsolete) The body.

verb

(intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.

(intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.

(intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.

(transitive) To put or hold in bulk.

(transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to; to bulk out.

adjective

Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).

Total.

Synonyms for bulk

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