Enlarge vs Bulk - What's the difference?
enlarge | bulk |
To make larger.
To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians vi. 11
To speak at length upon'' or ''on (some subject)
* 1664 , (Samuel Butler), Hudibras 2.2.68:
(archaic) To release; to set at large.
* 1580 , (Philip Sidney), Arcadia 329:
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
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* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II Scene II:
(nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
(legal) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
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.
As verbs the difference between enlarge and bulk
is that enlarge is to make larger while bulk is to appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.As a noun bulk is
size, mass or volume.As an adjective bulk is
being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc).enlarge
English
Verb
(enlarg)- Knowledge enlarges the mind.
- O ye Corinthians, our heart is enlarged .
- I shall enlarge upon the Point.
- Like a Lionesse lately enlarged .
- Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge , / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.
- It will enlarge us from all restraints.
- Uncle of Exeter, enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person. We consider it was excess of wine that set him on.
- (Abbott)
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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)
Adjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)- The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.