Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A protruding part; an outward curve or swelling.
- noun Nautical A bilge.
- noun A sudden, usually temporary increase in number or quantity.
- intransitive verb To swell, protrude, or curve outward.
- intransitive verb To cause to bulge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rounded protuberance; a swelling; a swell; a hump.
- noun The swirl made by a salmon rising to the surface.
- To swell out; be protuberant.
- To bilge, as a ship.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
- noun A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure.
- noun (Naut.) The bilge of a vessel. See
Bilge , 2. - noun (Naut.) See
Bilge ways . - intransitive verb To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant.
- intransitive verb To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something sticking out from a surface.
- verb intransitive To stick out from (a surface).
- verb intransitive To
bilge , as a ship; tofounder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- verb bulge outward
- verb bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- verb swell or protrude outwards
- verb cause to bulge or swell outwards
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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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.
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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.
Boing Boing 2009
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
elenaberu commented on the word bulge
"eyes bulge"
January 10, 2009
bilby commented on the word bulge
Latin borrowing from Celtic, nice.
March 25, 2019