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Bulk vs Clutter - What's the difference?

bulk | clutter |

In countable|lang=en terms the difference between bulk and clutter

is that bulk is (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo while clutter is (countable) a group of cats;.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between bulk and clutter

is that bulk is (obsolete) the body while clutter is (obsolete) clatter; confused noise.

As nouns the difference between bulk and clutter

is that bulk is size, mass or volume while clutter is a confused disordered jumble of things.

As verbs the difference between bulk and clutter

is that bulk is to appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent while clutter is to fill something with.

As an adjective bulk

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

bulk

English

(wikipedia bulk)

Noun

  • Size, mass or volume.
  • * 1729 .
    • The Quantity of Matter is the mea?ure of the ?ame, arising from its den?ity and bulk conjunctly.
  • *
    • 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.
  • The major part of something.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=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.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 15, author=Felicity Cloake, work=Guardian
    • , title= How to cook the perfect nut roast , passage=I'm convinced that the nut's very nutritiousness is to blame for the dish's poor reputation. They're so dense that a loaf made primarily from nuts would be more suitable for slicing into energy bars and selling to mountaineering supply shops - hence the main bulk of a nut roast is generally some form of carbohydrate, intended to lighten the load. }}
  • The result of water retained by fibre.
  • (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
  • (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
  • (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
  • (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
  • (obsolete) The body.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My liver leaped within my bulk .
    (George Turberville)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
  • * Leslie Stephen
    • The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.
  • To grow in size; to swell or expand.

    • Related terms

    * bulkhead * bulky * bulk up * in bulk

    clutter

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A confused disordered jumble of things.
  • * L'Estrange
    • He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter' by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the ' clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • (obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.
    • (Jonathan Swift)
  • Background echos, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
  • (countable) A group of cats;
  • * 2008 , John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories , Introduction
    • Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification.

    Derived terms

    * surface clutter * volume clutter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fill something with .
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
    • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.}}
  • (obsolete) To clot or coagulate, like blood.
    • (Holland)
  • To make a confused noise; to bustle.
  • * Tennyson
    • It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.
    (Webster 1913)