Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A protruding part; an outward curve or swelling.
- n. Nautical A bilge.
- n. A sudden, usually temporary increase in number or quantity: The baby boom created a bulge in school enrollment.
- n. An advantage.
- v. To cause to curve outward.
- v. To curve outward.
- v. To swell up.
- v. To stick out; protrude.
- v. To be filled or overfilled: pockets bulging with coins.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A rounded protuberance; a swelling; a swell; a hump.
- n. The swirl made by a salmon rising to the surface.
- To swell out; be protuberant.
- To bilge, as a ship.
- n. A rapid rise in price, of stock, grain, cotton, or the like, followed by an equally rapid fall, owing to some temporary causes. The name has reference to the curve in a diagram of prices.
- To cause to swell out and become protuberant.
- To bilge or stave in the bottom of, as a ship.
Wiktionary
- n. Something sticking out from a surface.
- v. intransitive To stick out from (a surface).
- v. intransitive To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
- n. A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure.
- n. (Naut.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
- v. To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant.
- v. To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
WordNet 3.0
- n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- v. bulge outward
- v. bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- v. swell or protrude outwards
- v. cause to bulge or swell outwards
Etymologies
- From Latin bulga "leather bag". Cognates includes bilge, belly, bellows, budget, French bouge, German Balg, etc. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, pouch, from Old French bulge, bouge, from Latin bulga, bag, of Celtic origin; see bhelgh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To generate the resultant pattern, a 3-dimensional bulge is formed around the tree, and its distorted wire-grid projected onto a 2-dimensional surface.”
“Diet this, diet that and the merry-go-round of the bulge is nothing less or more than a way of life ridden with guilt, should I even think of eating a piece of candy.”
“But they underscore that in a country where we're living longer and where the boomer bulge is leaving a deep wake behind it, it is about to have an enormous impact on our health-care system and will challenge our long-term care plans.”
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“The Yankees '12-game bulge is their largest since winning the division by 22 games in 1998.”
“The accuracy of the bulge is known by the geologists to within about a hundred yards.”
“If the snipersaw that shirt, he’d only care about whether the bulge is a concealed weapon.”
“The first measurement of success would be a drop in the number of boys in the ninth-grade "bulge" - the boys held back for another year because they are not prepared to start high school.”
“As Allied lines fall back, a "bulge" is created in the center of the line, giving the battle its familiar name (see”
“In an interview earlier this year while promoting GI Joe, Wayans joked: I get why they picked Chris O’Donnell, because it would be messed up to have Batman and you’ve got Robin, and his bulge is somewhat bigger than Batman’s.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘bulge’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
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Tweets
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elenaberu "eyes bulge" Jan 10, 2009