bulk
Size, specifically, volume.
Noun 4 meanings
Size, specifically, volume.
Any huge body or structure.
“The obese woman couldn't ease her bulk through the narrow passageway.”
The major part of something.
Dietary fibre.
Adjective 2 meanings
Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).
Total.
“Bulk fermentation”
Verb 4 meanings
To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
To grow in size; to swell or expand.
To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
To put or hold in bulk.
Etymology
From Middle English bulk, bolke (“a heap, cargo, hold; heap; bulge”), borrowed from Old Norse búlki (“the freight or the cargo of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *bulkô (“beam, pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”).
BULK at a glance
BULK has 4 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (B 3 + U 1 + L 1 + K 5) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,104 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with bulk
All rhymes- HULK11
- SULK8
- CAULK11
- BAULK11
- SKULK13
- PULK10
- OULK8
- OUTBULK13
- OUTSULK11
- OVERBULK17
- SCULK11
- WAULK12
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