bulk – English noun declension

English noun forms of bulk

Noun: bulk
Singularbulk
Pluralbulks

Sample Sentences

  • The Quantity of Matter is the measure of the same, arising from its density and bulk conjunctly. [1729, I Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, page 1:]
  • “ Didn't Balbus say this morning that, if a body is immersed in liquid, it displaces as much liquid as is equal to its own bulk? ” said Hugh. [1885, Lewis Carroll, “Knot IX”, in A Tangled Tale, page 58:]
  • By this process the body of the oyster acquires such a plumpness and rotundity, and its bulk and weight are so increased, as to materially increase its selling value. [1887, W. O. Atwater, “The Chemistry of Oyster-Fattening”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 32, number November, page 77:]
  • The cliff-dwellers had chipped and chipped away at this boulder till it rested its tremendous bulk upon a mere pin-point of its surface. [1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:]
  • The obese woman couldn't ease her bulk through the narrow passageway.
  • In the case of such a contract, there must be an implied condition that the bulk shall correspond with the sample in quality [1911, Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 24, «Sample», page 119:]
  • There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • the main bulk of a nut roast is generally some form of carbohydrate, intended to lighten the load. [2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:]
  • The bulk of my income comes from my office job, but I also teach a couple of evening classes.
  • The bulk of the criticisms were invalid.
  • I understood the bulk of what you were saying, just one of two points I need to hear again.
  • ...haunted the chocolate-houses, beat the watch, lay on bulks, and got claps; [1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section II”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:]
  • Methought I had, and often did I strive
  • To yield the ghost, but still the envious flood
  • Stopped in my soul and would not let it forth
  • To find the empty, vast, and wand'ring air,
  • But smothered it within my panting bulk,
  • Who almost burst to belch it in the sea. [c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:]
  • little Cupide stroue
  • Within her bulke, because that she had woue
  • The web that wrought Nastagio all his woe [1587, George Turberville, Tragical Tales:]

Etymology

1. 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”). Compare Icelandic búlkast (“to be bulky”), Swedish dialectal bulk (“a bunch”), Danish bulk (“bump, knob”).
2. Conflated with Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk”). See: Middle English Nouns 'bulk', Old Norse Nouns 'búlki', Middle English Nouns 'bouk'.

Verbs referencing "bulk"

Finnish Nouns bulkki, Dutch Nouns bolk.