Dictionary entry
Bulky
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌlki/
Pronunciation
/ˈbʌlki/
Myanmar Meaning
(adj) ကြီးမားလေးလံသော။
Definition
bulk /bʌlk/ n ၁။ [U] ႀကီးမားေသာအရြယ္၊ ပမာဏ၊ ထုထည္။ It's not their weight that makes these sacks hard to carry, it's their bulk. ❍ The sheer bulk of Mozart's output is extraordinary. ❍ a bulk order for office stationery. ၂။ [C] ႀကီးမားေသာပံုပန္းသဏၭာန္၊ ခႏၶာကိုယ္၊ လူ။ She heaved her huge bulk out of the chair. ၃။ [U] အစာတြင္ အမွ်င္ မ်ားမ်ားပါေသာအပိုင္း။ You need more bulk in your diet. ၄။ [sing] the ~ (of sth) အမ်ားစု။ The bulk of the work has already been done. ❍ The eldest son inherited the bulk of the estate. ❏ bulk-buying n [U] (ေပါေပါရသျဖင့္) အေျမာက္အျမား ဝယ္ယူျခင္း။ ❏ bulk large [ IDM ] ( Brit ) အေရးႀကီးပံုရသည္။ သိသာ ေပၚလြင္သည္။ The war still bulks large in the memories of those who fought in it. ❏ bulk sth out [ PHRV ] ပိုမို၍ ထူလာ၊ ႀကီးလာေအာင္ ျပဳလုပ္သည္။ add extra pages to bulk a book out. ❏ bulky adj ( -ier, -iest ) အရြယ္ပမာဏႀကီးမားေသာ။ ဝန္က်ယ္ေသာ။ The bulky figure of Inspector Jones appeared at the door. ❍ a bulky parcel/crate/load. ❏ in bulk [ IDM ] အလံုးအခဲလိုက္။ အစုအပံုလိုက္။ It's cheaper to buy (goods) in bulk.
Examples
- She heaved her formidable bulk off the frail chair.
- We looked up at the great dark bulk of the cathedral.
- Despite its bulk and weight
- the Mercedes handles like a small car.