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Bulk vs Fiber - What's the difference?

bulk | fiber |

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

is that bulk is (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo while fiber is (countable) a single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.

As nouns the difference between bulk and fiber

is that bulk is size, mass or volume while fiber is (countable) a single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.

As an adjective bulk

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

As a verb bulk

is to appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.

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

    fiber

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fibre (chiefly British)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
    • The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
  • (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
    • The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber .
  • (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
    • Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
  • Dietary fiber.
    • ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber
  • (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
    • The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber .
  • (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
    • ''Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
  • (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, dietary fiber , fiber bundle , fiberboard , fibered , fiberglass , fiberize , fiber optics , fiberscope , fibril, fibrilar , fibrin, fibrinous , fibrinogen , fibrinolysin , fibroblast , fibrocyte , fibroid , fibroma , fibrosis , fibrositis , fibrous , fibrovascular , microfiber , moral fiber , natural fiber , synthetic fiber}}

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