Definitions of Bulge [ʌldʒ]

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Definition of 'Bulge'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) bulge
a rounded projection or protruding part, often the result of internal pressure; protuberance.

2. bulge
a sudden increase, as in numbers or volume.

3. (v.i.) bulge
to swell or bend outward; protrude.

4. bulge
to be filled to capacity.

5. (v.t.) bulge
to make protuberant; cause to swell.

Etymology: (1200–50; ME: bag, hump < OF < L bulga bag < Celtic; cf. Ir bolg bag)

Definition of 'Bulge'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
"the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"

2. (verb) bulge, pouch, protrude
swell or protrude outwards
"His stomach bulged after the huge meal"

3. (verb) bulge, bag
bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

4. (verb) start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out, come out
bulge outward
"His eyes popped"

5. (verb) bulge, bulk
cause to bulge or swell outwards

Definition of 'Bulge'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) bulge
a lump or swelling
a bulge in the tube

2. (verb) bulge
to swell
a briefcase bulging with documents

Definition of 'Bulge'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Bulge
the bilge or protuberant part of a cask

2. (noun) Bulge
a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall

3. (noun) Bulge
the bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2

4. (verb) Bulge
to swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges

5. (verb) Bulge
to bilge, as a ship; to founder

Translation of 'Bulge'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a swelling the bulge of her hips.
Afrikaans: ronding	Arabic: نُتوء، انتِفاخ	Bulgarian: изпъкналост
Brazilian: volume	Czech: vypouklina, oblina	German: die Rundung, die Anschwel
Danish: bule	Greek: εξόγκωμα, φούσκωμα	Spanish: protuberancia
Estonian: (väljaulatuv) kumerus	Farsi: برآمدگی	Finnish: pullistuma
French: renflement	Hebrew: לִתְפוֹח	Hindi: उभार
Croatian: izbočina	Hungarian: duzzanat	Indonesian: bengkak, tonjolan
Italian: rigonfiamento, protuberan	Japanese: ふくらみ	Korean: 볼록함
Lithuanian: iškilumas, išgaubtumas	Latvian: izliekums	Malay: bonjol
Dutch: uitstulping	Norwegian: bule, utbuing	Polish: wybrzuszenie
Persian: برآمدگی	Pashto: راوتلی	Portuguese: volume
Romanian: umflătură	Russian: выпуклость	Slovak: vypuklina; oblina
Slovenian: nabreklost	Serbian: ispupčenje	Swedish: utbuktning, rundning
Thai: ส่วนที่นูน	Turkish: şiş(kinlik), çıkıntı	Taiwanese: 腫脹
Ukrainian: випуклість	Urdu: گول ابھار ، سوجن	Vietnamese: chỗ phồng; chỗ sưng
Chinese: 肿胀
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