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bulk(1) (iou)



bulk noun1 & adjective. ME.
[Senses 1, 2 from Old Norse bulki cargo; other senses perh. alt. of BOUK.]
A. noun.
A ship's cargo, esp. as a whole; the whole amount (of a commodity). ME.
break bulk begin unloading.
Oxford English Dictionary The bulk is not equal to sample.
A heap, a pile (now rare in lit. use); a large quantity. LME.
in bulk loose, not packaged; in large quantities.
The hull or hold of a ship. Long obsolete exc. dial. LME.
The body, the trunk; now spec. a bodily frame of large proportions. LME.
F. Norris His arms moved, and his head, but the great bulk of the man remained immobile in its place. E. Figes He shifted his bulk in the creaking chair.
Bodily magnitude; volume, size, weight. LME.
T. H. Huxley Sea water is denser.., bulk for bulk, than fresh water. J. A. Michener Those [bones] that were higher in her body were of successively lighter bulk.
b. spec. Considerable volume etc. E17.
Ld Macaulay The facility and assiduity with which he wrote are proved by the bulk..of his works.
c. Roughage in food. M20.
A (large) mass or shape. L16.
Tennyson A Tudor-chimnied bulk Of mellow brickwork.
The greater part or number of. E18.
R. L. Stevenson The bulk of the time I spent in repeating as much French poetry as I could remember.
b. attrib. or as adjective. In bulk. L17.
Comb.: bulk-buying (a) buying in large amounts at a discount; (b) the purchase by one buyer of all or most of a producer's output; bulk carrier a ship that carries cargo in bulk; bulk modulus the relative change in volume of a body produced by unit compressive or tensile stress acting uniformly over its surface.
bulked adjective having bulk, bulky LME.
bulker noun a bulk carrier L20.