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Pouch vs Bulge - What's the difference?

pouch | bulge |

As nouns the difference between pouch and bulge

is that pouch is a small bag usually closed with a drawstring while bulge is a type of helmet.

As a verb pouch

is to enclose within a pouch.

pouch

English

Noun

(es)
  • A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  • A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
  • Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
  • (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
  • A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  • (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  • A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    See also

    * bag * pocket * sack

    Verb

  • To enclose within a pouch.
  • To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
  • (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
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  • (obsolete) To pout.
    • (Ainsworth)
  • (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
    (Webster 1913)

    bulge

    English

    (wikipedia bulge)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
    • a bulge in a wall
    a bulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet
  • The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
  • (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.

    • See also

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    Verb

    (bulg)
  • To stick out from (a surface).
    • The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.
    He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • The wind actually stirred the cloth on the chest of drawers, and let in a little light, so that the sharp edge of the chest of drawers was visible, running straight up, until a white shape bulged out; and a silver streak showed in the looking-glass.
  • To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
  • * Broome
    • And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.

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