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noun (plural bulks) |
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1. large size: large size or mass
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2. large body: a large or overweight person's body
  eased his bulk through the narrow passageway
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3. fiber in food: the indigestible fiber that is a constituent of some food
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4. majority: the greater part of something
The bulk of the funding will come from the federal government.
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adjective |
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in large quantity: in or of a large quantity
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intransitive verb (past and past participle bulked, present participle bulk·ing, 3rd person present singular bulks) |
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gain weight: to gain weight, especially by deliberately adding additional muscle mass
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| [15th century. Partly < Old Norse búlki "heap" (< Indo-European, "swell"); partly < Old English būc "belly" (< Germanic)] |
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in bulk
1. in large quantities or amounts
2. loose, instead of being commercially packaged
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