Bulked vs Burked - What's the difference?
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(bulk)
Size, mass or volume.
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The major part of something.
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(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
being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
* Leslie Stephen
To grow in size; to swell or expand.
(burke)
(UK, slang) To murder in the same manner as Burke, to kill by suffocation
*1829 February 2 , Times (London), 3/5
*:As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke' him, '''Burke''' him—give him no rope’... were vociferated... ‘' Burke Hare too!’
(UK, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons,
*1833 , T. Hook, Parson's Daughter , II. i. 26
*:Perhaps he is Burked , and his body sold for nine pounds.
*1836 , Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers , :
(UK, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
*1835 , J. A. Roebuck. Dorchester Labourers , 6/1 (note)
*:The reporters left it out... Those who spoke in favour of the poor men, were what the reporters call burked .
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, page 128:
:1953 , (Robert Graves), Poems , 4
::Socrates and Plato burked the issue.
As verbs the difference between bulked and burked
is that bulked is past tense of bulk while burked is past tense of burke.bulked
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(wikipedia bulk)Noun
- 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 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.}}
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. }}
- My liver leaped within my bulk .
- (George Turberville)
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(en verb)- The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.
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(burk)- ‘You don’t mean to say he was burked , Sam?’ said Mr. Pickwick, looking hastily round.
- He put away—burked —the Directors' letter, and went in to talk to Riley