bulk
noun
[ bʌlk ]
• the mass or size of something large.
• "residents jump up and down on their rubbish to reduce its bulk"
Similar:
size,
volume,
dimensions,
measurements,
proportions,
mass,
substance,
scale,
magnitude,
immensity,
hugeness,
vastness,
massiveness,
bulkiness,
largeness,
bigness,
ampleness,
amplitude,
• the greater part of something.
• "the bulk of the traffic had passed"
Similar:
majority,
greater quantity/number,
larger part/number,
best/better part,
main part,
major part,
most,
almost all,
more than half,
(main) body,
lion's share,
predominance,
preponderance,
generality,
bulk
verb
• treat (a product) so that its quantity appears greater than it is.
• "traders were bulking up their flour with chalk"
• combine (shares or commodities for sale).
• "your shares will be bulked with others and sold at the best prices available"
Origin:
Middle English: the senses ‘cargo as a whole’ and ‘heap, large quantity’ (the earliest recorded) are probably from Old Norse búlki ‘cargo’; other senses arose perhaps by alteration of obsolete bouk ‘belly, body’.
