Bulk

What “Bulk” means

Noun

1. Size, specifically, volume.
2. Any huge body or structure.
3. The major part of something.
4. The major part of something.
5. The major part of something.

Adj

1. Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).
2. Total.

Verb

1. To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
2. To grow in size; to swell or expand.
3. To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
4. To put or hold in bulk.
5. To add bulk to; to bulk out.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English bulk, bolke (“a heap, cargo, hold; heap; bulge”), borrowed from Old Norse búlki (“the freight or the cargo of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *bulkô (“beam, pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Icelandic búlkast (“to be bulky”), Swedish dialectal bulk (“a bunch”), Danish bulk (“bump, knob”). Conflated with Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk”).

Business name ideas with “Bulk”

Industries where “Bulk” fits

We suggest this word for 3 business types and industries, including:

• Electric Bulk Power Transmission and Control
• Petroleum Bulk Stations and Terminals
• Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers (except Bulk Stations and Terminals)