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

  1. She heaved her formidable bulk off the frail chair.
  2. We looked up at the great dark bulk of the cathedral.
  3. Despite its bulk and weight
  4. the Mercedes handles like a small car.