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How to pronounce bulk in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms mass, volume
Type of magnitude
Has types dollar volume, turnover
Derivation bulky


it is cheaper to buy it in bulk.
Type Words
Synonyms bulge
Type of swell
Type Words
Synonyms majority
Type of number, figure


the bulk of the work is finished.
Type Words
Type of protrude, pouch, bulge


The parcel bulked in the sack.
Type Words
Type of mass
Derivation bulky

Examples of bulk

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Wah Kwong, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates a fleet of bulk carriers.
From the bloomberg.com
Craig, who was batting sixth, and Jon Jay will get the bulk of the playing time.
From the washingtontimes.com
However, Tramco also builds conveyors for numerous industrial dry bulk products.
From the kansas.com
Freshman Tommy McCune, 6-7, needs to add bulk, but he will block a ton of shots.
From the freep.com
The bulk of the cuts, more than $800 billion, take effect between 2007 and 2011.
From the businessweek.com
The U.S. government provides 50 percent reimbursement for the bulk of that cost.
From the sacbee.com
OxiClean can be expensive, but buy in bulk on sale and a little goes a long way.
From the dailyherald.com
The bulk of his sales, though, are by mail order to individuals like you and me.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Rumours that his wife, Sarah, bulk-bought 80 of them herself remain unconfirmed.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Majority: 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"
  • Stick out or up; "The parcel bulked in the sack"
  • Bulge: cause to bulge or swell outwards
  • 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"
  • The property possessed by a large mass
  • The field-effect transistor (FET) relies on an electric field to control the shape and hence the conductivity of a channel of one type of charge carrier in a semiconductor material. ...
  • Size, mass or volume; The major part of something; The result of water retained by fibre; (transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. ...
  • (BULKING) Clouds of billowing sludge usually associated with algae or bacteria in secondary clarifiers when the sludge becomes too light to settle properly.
  • (Bulking) Also known as crimping, texturizing or lofting. Bulking imparts texture/fullness to the fiber or yarn during production. Bulking is done to increase the coverage the yarn will have in the carpet face. Bulking also adds to fiber resiliency. See "Texturizing."