What is the meaning of BULK. Phrases containing BULK
See meanings and uses of BULK!Slangs & AI meanings
(1)Adj. Very good. Also used with Mega: "That skirt is mega bulk." See Also: Way Cool, Totally Awesome, The Joint, Radical, Killer, Kickin', Gnarly, Excellent, Dope
Blow one's bulkheads is British slang for to ejaculate.
[adj.] very, as in "Didja see the new Smash Hits? The John Taylor page is bulk good." "like, gag me with a spoon" = gross, yuk. From Moon Unit Zappa's Valley Girl song.
Big and bulky is Australian rhyming slang for a horse−drawn carriage (sulky).
Phrs. Laughing. E.g."Sarah was in bulk all the way through the film." [Merseyside use]
A merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo in its cargo holds. Also bulk freighter or bulker.
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A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc.
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To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
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Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.
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Having volume, or bulk; massive; great.
v. i.
To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
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Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
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Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous.
v. i.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
n.
A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
v. i.
To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.
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Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
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To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
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Of great volume, or bulk; large.
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The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
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Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
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A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.
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Greatness in bulk; size.
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The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc.
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