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Bulk vs Husk - What's the difference?

bulk | husk |

As nouns the difference between bulk and husk

is that bulk is size, mass or volume while husk is the dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.

As verbs the difference between bulk and husk

is that bulk is to appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent while husk is to remove husks from or husk can be to say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.

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

    husk

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . More at (l), (l). Alternate etymology derives husk from Low German .)

    Noun

    (wikipedia husk) (en noun)
  • The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside
    • A coconut has a very thick husk .
  • Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something
    • His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man.
  • The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove husks from.

    • Etymology 2

    Partly imitative, partly from Etymology 1, above, influenced by (husky).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.
  • * The French captain did not immediately respond; he looked at his men with a miserable expression [...]; still he hesitated, drooped, and finally husked , "Je me rends," with a look still more wretched. — (Naomi Novik), "His Majesty's Dragon"

    • See also

    * husky

    References

    The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary , 2nd Ed., Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1978 ----