Noun

(en noun)

A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.

* Francis Bacon

a heap of vassals and slaves

* W. Black

He had heaps of friends.

A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

a heap of earth or stones

* Dryden

Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.

A great number or large quantity of things.

* Bishop Burnet

a vast heap , both of places of scripture and quotations

* Robert Louis Stevenson

I have noticed a heap of things in my life.

(computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.

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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.

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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)