Considerable vs Bulk - What's the difference?
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Significant; worth considering.
Large in amount.
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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.
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being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
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To grow in size; to swell or expand.
As adjectives the difference between considerable and bulk
is that considerable is considerable while bulk is being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc).As a noun bulk is
size, mass or volume.As a verb bulk is
to appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.considerable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
Statistics
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English
(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)
Adjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)- The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.