bulk
bulk: n. & v. --n.
1 a size; magnitude (esp. large). b a large mass, body, or person. c a large quantity.
2 a large shape, body, or person (jacket barely covered his bulk).
3 (usu. prec. by the; treated as pl.) the greater part or number (the bulk of the applicants are women).
4 roughage.
5 Naut. cargo, esp. unpackaged. --v.
1 intr. seem in respect of size or importance (bulks large in his reckoning).
2 tr. make (a book, a textile yarn, etc.) seem thicker by suitable treatment (bulked it with irrelevant stories).
3 tr. combine (consignments etc.). break bulk begin unloading (cargo). bulk-buying 1 buying in large amounts at a discount.
2 the purchase by one buyer of all or most of a producer's output. in bulk 1 in large quantities.
2 (of a cargo) loose, not packaged. [sense 'cargo' f. OIcel. blki; sense 'mass' etc. perh. alt. f. obs. bouk (cf. BUCK(3))]
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