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Hulk vs. Bulk

Hulk and Bulk Definitions

Hulk

A heavy, unwieldy ship.

Bulk

Size, mass, or volume, especially when very large.

Hulk

The hull of an old, unseaworthy, or wrecked ship.

Bulk

A distinct mass or portion of matter, especially a large one
The dark bulk of buildings against the sky.

Hulk

Often hulks An old or unseaworthy ship used as a prison or warehouse.

Bulk

The body of a human, especially when large or muscular.
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Hulk

One, such as a person or object, that is bulky, clumsy, or unwieldy.

Bulk

The major portion or greater part
"The great bulk of necessary work can never be anything but painful" (Bertrand Russell).

Hulk

A wrecked or abandoned shell of a usually large object, such as a building or vehicle.

Bulk

See fiber.

Hulk

To appear as a massive or towering form; loom
The big truck hulked out of the fog.

Bulk

Thickness of paper or cardboard in relation to weight.
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Hulk

To move clumsily.

Bulk

A ship's cargo.

Hulk

(nautical)

Bulk

To be or appear to be massive in terms of size, volume, or importance; loom
Safety considerations bulked large during development of the new spacecraft.

Hulk

(archaic) A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.

Bulk

To grow or increase in size or importance.
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Hulk

(by extension) A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.

Bulk

To cohere or form a mass
Certain paper bulks well.

Hulk

(figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence.

Bulk

To cause to swell or expand.

Hulk

(figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.

Bulk

To cause to cohere or form a mass.

Hulk

(bodybuilding) An excessively muscled person.

Bulk

Being large in mass, quantity, or volume
A bulk buy.
A bulk mailing.

Hulk

To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.

Bulk

Size, specifically, volume.

Hulk

To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.

Bulk

Any huge body or structure.

Hulk

(transitive) To move (a large, hulking body).

Bulk

The major part of something.
The bulk of my income comes from my office job, but I also teach a couple of evening classes.
I understood the bulk of what you were saying, just one of two points I need to hear again.

Hulk

(intransitive) To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.

Bulk

Dietary fibre.

Hulk

(intransitive) Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.

Bulk

Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.

Hulk

To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.

Bulk

(countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.

Hulk

The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.

Bulk

(bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.

Hulk

A heavy ship of clumsy build.

Bulk

(bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.

Hulk

Anything bulky or unwieldly.

Bulk

(brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.

Hulk

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare.

Bulk

(obsolete) The body.

Hulk

A very large person; impressive in size or qualities

Bulk

Being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)

Hulk

A ship that has been wrecked and abandoned

Bulk

Total

Hulk

Appear very large or occupy a commanding position;
The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain
Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall

Bulk

(intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.

Bulk

(intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.

Bulk

(intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.

Bulk

(transitive) To put or hold in bulk.

Bulk

To add bulk to, to bulk out.

Bulk

Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
Against these forces there were prepared near one hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a more nimble motion, and more serviceable.

Bulk

The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them, "to obtain what by labor can be obtained."

Bulk

The cargo of a vessel when stowed.

Bulk

The body.
My liver leaped within my bulk.

Bulk

A projecting part of a building.
Here, stand behind this bulk.

Bulk

To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.

Bulk

The property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part;
The majority of his customers prefer it
The bulk of the work is finished

Bulk

The property of something that is great in magnitude;
It is cheaper to buy it in bulk
He received a mass of correspondence
The volume of exports

Bulk

The property possessed by a large mass

Bulk

Stick out or up;
The parcel bulked in the sack

Bulk

Cause to bulge or swell outwards

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