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Definition of bulge in English: bulgenoun bʌldʒbəldʒ 1A rounded swelling which distorts an otherwise flat surface. the telltale bulge of a concealed weapon Example sentencesExamples - The hernia may look like a bulge or swelling in the groin area.
- Another layer of fat, deeper under the skin, called the scarpus fascia controls the contours, bulges and bumps in our body.
- When present they may produce a bulge of the lateral nasal wall anterior to the middle turbinate.
- Under their ponchos he spied telltale bulges that he took to be weapons.
- He breathed in the scent of her hair and ran a hand down her side to caress the smooth, rounded bulge where their first, long tried for child was growing.
- Since the revolution, the mobsters have kept a lower profile, although visitors will still spot large, muscular men with their jackets undone and suspicious bulges under their left arms as they get out of glittering Mercedes.
- The bulge was back, and so were the cortisone injections.
- Keratoconus is an irregular bulge of the cornea, or the clear surface structure over the eye.
- The rounded bulge of its roof was visible above the dry-stone dyke.
- The foam, filled with tiny oxygen bubbles, can be injected into veins to smooth bulges and stop blood-flow problems behind the condition.
- To answer those questions, Fuchs and her colleagues first isolated stem cells from the bulge by fusing antibodies to characteristic cell surface molecules.
- Though he was now touched by the first papery brittleness of old age, his shoulders were still broad, his biceps showed bulges, his posture was mostly erect, and he seemed relaxed.
- The main entrance to the station concourse lies on the west side of the building, signified by a slight bulge as the glass side wall curves outward.
- Once thought to be a terrible menace, some experts now advise to ignore these bulges which appear in the stems of all types of citrus trees.
- Rising from the radiator grille, a prominent bulge in the hood runs to the base of the windscreen.
- The brain, too, develops in the first instance from a simple sheet of cells that gradually curls up into a tube that sprouts bulges, which over time differentiate into ever more complex shapes.
- Yes, my stomach is bigger than I'd like and I have little bulges at the top of my inner thighs, but that doesn't make them, or me, ‘bad’.
- The original smooth surface often becomes worn, with bulges and cracks appearing here and there.
- They calculate that the plume's buoyancy, as inferred by seismic imaging, is just enough to produce a bulge in the overlying surface that matches the superswell in size and height.
- Jones's forms and drawing are ultimately based on perception, disciplined by a sense of geometric order that occasionally gives way to smooth curves and rough bulges.
Synonyms swelling, bump, lump, protuberance, protrusion, prominence, projection, eruption, convexity rare intumescence - 1.1Military A piece of land which projects outwards from an otherwise regular line.
the advance created an eastward-facing bulge in the line Example sentencesExamples - Ghana is situated on the large bulge that projects into the Atlantic Ocean.
- This is particularly true along the boundaries of the crescent-shaped Islamic bloc of nations from the bulge of Africa to Central Asia.
- The larger part of the main forces belonged to the 10th army concentrated in the central part of the WSMD in the Bialystok bulge area.
- The major sticking point was the fate of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an oblong bulge of Jordanian territory that 800,000 Palestinians called home.
- The Germans planned powerful attacks from the areas near Orel and Belgorod toward Kursk to surround and destroy the Soviet forces within the bulge.
2informal in singular An unusual temporary increase in number or size. a bulge in the birth rate Example sentencesExamples - Our unique demographic profile, caused by the 1970s baby boom, continues to produce a bulge in the population of young adults.
- As the demographics I discussed earlier change, and as the baby boomers retire and the bulge flows through, there will be a huge increase in the cost of New Zealand superannuation.
- We who were born in the mid 50's are the biggest bulge of the baby boom cohort.
- It will be possible to continue New Zealand superannuation at present real levels through the bulge of the retirement of the baby boomers, because we are being prudent and investing now.
- Most pressing is the large demographic bulge of the baby boom, people who are going to be retiring over the next 30 years.
- During the 1960s, 70s and 80s there were high birth rates in the Muslim world, and this has given rise to a huge youth bulge.
- That's a long time - long enough to weather most of the baby-boomer bulge.
- But as the baby-boomer bulge moves through the system, our pension debt will also increase.
- This turnaround is largely the result of the Baby-boomer bulge entering retirement and being succeeded by steady-state Baby-bust workforce.
- And experience suggests that cultural and social shifts are likely to emerge from a youth bulge.
- The reason it's ‘unsustainable’ is that the program would need more funds to get through the demographic bulge created by the baby generation.
- Old people are not only living longer and getting richer - they are becoming more numerous as the post-war generation bulge enters its third age.
- Generation Y Grows Up: Another population bulge has occurred as a result of Boomers having babies.
- And the situation will become even more acute as the great demographic bulge of the baby boom moves into retirement.
- The huge prison bulge may temporarily slow down crime, as it apparently has, but as offenders are released, the number of new crimes can be expected to skyrocket.
- Everyone understands the system will go into deficit when members of the baby-boom population bulge start retiring and becoming infirm.
Synonyms surge, upsurge, rise, increase, escalation, jump, leap, boost, intensification, augmentation
verb bʌldʒbəldʒ [no object]1Swell or protrude to an incongruous extent. the veins in his neck bulged Example sentencesExamples - Jenkins' eyes, already wild and dilated, began to bulge as he fought for breath.
- Danny froze and the General's eyes bulged as he puffed his moustache.
- He could feel the blood pumping through the veins that were starting to bulge out of the neck muscles.
- They can be quite painful and because of the contractions, the muscle often becomes hard and appears to be bulging.
- Its order books are bulging and profits are up 70% on the back of a soaring aerospace market.
- Sometimes it can be genuinely disabling without the right treatment, if a nerve is trapped or a disc is bulging.
- A long torso may mean roomier accommodations for a baby, making it less likely for a woman's belly to bulge outward.
- This takes account of the fact that the earth isn't a perfect sphere - it bulges slightly at the equator - so the best global grid isn't a sphere, it's an ellipsoid.
- Therefore, any food container that bulges or swells may contain gas produced by C. botulinum and should not be opened or tasted.
- Satan could see the veins in Simon's neck begin to bulge, his jaw tighten.
- The danger is that straining to empty the bowel may damage it, leading to diverticular disease, in which the lining of the intestines bulges through weaknesses in their muscles.
- He was at least as tall as Veltrop Plinn and his thick muscles bulged in his neck and arms.
- Carey's eyes seemed to bulge, the cords on his neck standing taut.
- These dots appear like perforations in a three-dimensional surface that, close up, seems to bulge and swell and recede.
- My eyes bulged and I stared at the board in bewilderment.
- I turned round and there behind me stood an enormous Maori man whose tattooed biceps bulged from his singlet.
- Some say sluggish blood and lymph circulation allow fluids and toxins to accumulate, causing fat cells to inflate and bulge up against the skin.
- In the high mountains, the bellies of top climbers bulge like bowling balls.
- Romantic or touching moments are cued with swelling music, unbelievably swelling music that bulges and finally erupts from your speakers to reach a peak of splendiferousness.
- The children are obviously terrified: they swallow nervously, their eyes bulge, they stand with stiff little postures and when they lose, they look stricken and sob on their mothers' shoulders.
Synonyms swell, swell out, puff up/out, stick out, balloon, balloon up/out, fill out, bag, belly project, protrude, jut (out), stand out, be prominent expand, inflate, distend, dilate, enlarge, bloat rare intumesce, tumefy - 1.1 Be full of and distended with.
a briefcase bulging with documents Example sentencesExamples - He was carrying several shopping bags, bulging with packets and tins.
- It is early morning on the Greek island of Paxos and a bearded Dalietos has just returned from the harbour with a carrier bag bulging with fish.
- It goes without saying that shoppers who are ill-advised enough to carry them at all invariably have a purse or wallet bulging with them.
- Years bleed into one another as file cabinets bulge with extraneous information.
- Newspapers bulge with travel advertisements and articles telling us about the wonders of the world.
- This is a volume bulging with examples of wasteful use of public money, arousing laughter and scorn in equal measure.
- So they said yes, it takes me a few hours a week and they give me a suitcase bulging with cash each year in return.
- Did she hand over the goods in a service station on the M1 in exchange for a brown envelope bulging with cash?
- His pocket is bulging with invitations to his barbecue, but his mind is busy with the speech he is about to make to launch his Orkney Society.
- On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists.
- His pockets bulge with change, because when he goes to a shop he can never hear when the assistant tells him how much to pay, and so always proffers a £5 note.
- He patted an example of a feedback file, which was bulging with faxed compliments for a very busy individual.
- Initially, my postbag would bulge with letters about this issue in October and November as Guy Fawkes Night, November 5, approached.
- Some files in the museum are bulging with information, others, like Philip's, have remained empty.
- All over the city, pockets are bulging with loose change and the burden of having no one to give it to.
- Now, the harbour and the main town are a prime day-tripper destination, bulging with buses.
- Tony must feel like a man who has a wallet bulging with notes in one hand and a clutch of pressing bills in the other.
- As he spoke, one hand casually drifted toward the cigarbox bulging with dollar bills.
- Computer screens glow, fax machines stutter out reams of paper and the filing cabinets which line every wall bulge with thousands of documents.
- I'm one of those people who comes back from a visit to the beach with my pockets bulging with stuff I've picked up.
Derivatives adverb They are bulgingly huge and really dark. Example sentencesExamples - Kelly's face is cut and bruised and she has a bulgingly livid black eye which has, horribly, added about a third to the size of her face.
- I handed in my dissertation two weeks before the birth of my little boy - a bulgingly visible deadline to work to!
adjectivebulgiest, bulgier ˈbʌldʒiˈbəldʒi Swollen, protruding, or curving outwards. ugly creatures with bulgy eyes Example sentencesExamples - a bulgy tummy
- The astronauts end up with bulgy faces, sinus congestion, and a lot of edema in the upper body.
- It's better than weight training, because it lengthens your muscles rather than making them bulgy.
- The lobby has bulgy sofas and an open wood fire; you can eat your tea and scones here, or in the equally cosy sitting room.
Origin Middle English: from Old French boulge, from Latin bulga (see budget). The original meaning was 'wallet or bag', later 'a ship's bilge' (early 17th century); other senses presumably derived from association with the shape of a full bag. budget from Late Middle English: When the British Chancellor of the Exchequer holds up the battered case containing details of his budget speech, he may or may not know that he is making a gesture towards the origin of the word. A budget was originally a pouch or wallet. The word came from French in the late Middle Ages, and goes back to Latin bulga ‘leather sack, bag’, from which English also gets bulge (Middle English).
Rhymes divulge, indulge, promulge Definition of bulge in US English: bulgenounbəldʒbəlj 1A rounded swelling or protuberance that distorts a flat surface. Example sentencesExamples - Rising from the radiator grille, a prominent bulge in the hood runs to the base of the windscreen.
- Yes, my stomach is bigger than I'd like and I have little bulges at the top of my inner thighs, but that doesn't make them, or me, ‘bad’.
- The foam, filled with tiny oxygen bubbles, can be injected into veins to smooth bulges and stop blood-flow problems behind the condition.
- Keratoconus is an irregular bulge of the cornea, or the clear surface structure over the eye.
- The brain, too, develops in the first instance from a simple sheet of cells that gradually curls up into a tube that sprouts bulges, which over time differentiate into ever more complex shapes.
- The main entrance to the station concourse lies on the west side of the building, signified by a slight bulge as the glass side wall curves outward.
- The bulge was back, and so were the cortisone injections.
- To answer those questions, Fuchs and her colleagues first isolated stem cells from the bulge by fusing antibodies to characteristic cell surface molecules.
- Jones's forms and drawing are ultimately based on perception, disciplined by a sense of geometric order that occasionally gives way to smooth curves and rough bulges.
- He breathed in the scent of her hair and ran a hand down her side to caress the smooth, rounded bulge where their first, long tried for child was growing.
- The hernia may look like a bulge or swelling in the groin area.
- The original smooth surface often becomes worn, with bulges and cracks appearing here and there.
- Under their ponchos he spied telltale bulges that he took to be weapons.
- Since the revolution, the mobsters have kept a lower profile, although visitors will still spot large, muscular men with their jackets undone and suspicious bulges under their left arms as they get out of glittering Mercedes.
- They calculate that the plume's buoyancy, as inferred by seismic imaging, is just enough to produce a bulge in the overlying surface that matches the superswell in size and height.
- Once thought to be a terrible menace, some experts now advise to ignore these bulges which appear in the stems of all types of citrus trees.
- Though he was now touched by the first papery brittleness of old age, his shoulders were still broad, his biceps showed bulges, his posture was mostly erect, and he seemed relaxed.
- The rounded bulge of its roof was visible above the dry-stone dyke.
- When present they may produce a bulge of the lateral nasal wall anterior to the middle turbinate.
- Another layer of fat, deeper under the skin, called the scarpus fascia controls the contours, bulges and bumps in our body.
Synonyms swelling, bump, lump, protuberance, protrusion, prominence, projection, eruption, convexity - 1.1 (especially in a military context) a piece of land that projects outward from an otherwise regular line.
the advance created an eastward-facing bulge in the line Example sentencesExamples - Ghana is situated on the large bulge that projects into the Atlantic Ocean.
- The major sticking point was the fate of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an oblong bulge of Jordanian territory that 800,000 Palestinians called home.
- This is particularly true along the boundaries of the crescent-shaped Islamic bloc of nations from the bulge of Africa to Central Asia.
- The larger part of the main forces belonged to the 10th army concentrated in the central part of the WSMD in the Bialystok bulge area.
- The Germans planned powerful attacks from the areas near Orel and Belgorod toward Kursk to surround and destroy the Soviet forces within the bulge.
- 1.2informal in singular A temporary unusual increase in number or size.
a bulge in the birth rate Example sentencesExamples - Most pressing is the large demographic bulge of the baby boom, people who are going to be retiring over the next 30 years.
- As the demographics I discussed earlier change, and as the baby boomers retire and the bulge flows through, there will be a huge increase in the cost of New Zealand superannuation.
- Generation Y Grows Up: Another population bulge has occurred as a result of Boomers having babies.
- That's a long time - long enough to weather most of the baby-boomer bulge.
- Old people are not only living longer and getting richer - they are becoming more numerous as the post-war generation bulge enters its third age.
- Everyone understands the system will go into deficit when members of the baby-boom population bulge start retiring and becoming infirm.
- It will be possible to continue New Zealand superannuation at present real levels through the bulge of the retirement of the baby boomers, because we are being prudent and investing now.
- And the situation will become even more acute as the great demographic bulge of the baby boom moves into retirement.
- This turnaround is largely the result of the Baby-boomer bulge entering retirement and being succeeded by steady-state Baby-bust workforce.
- The reason it's ‘unsustainable’ is that the program would need more funds to get through the demographic bulge created by the baby generation.
- We who were born in the mid 50's are the biggest bulge of the baby boom cohort.
- During the 1960s, 70s and 80s there were high birth rates in the Muslim world, and this has given rise to a huge youth bulge.
- Our unique demographic profile, caused by the 1970s baby boom, continues to produce a bulge in the population of young adults.
- And experience suggests that cultural and social shifts are likely to emerge from a youth bulge.
- But as the baby-boomer bulge moves through the system, our pension debt will also increase.
- The huge prison bulge may temporarily slow down crime, as it apparently has, but as offenders are released, the number of new crimes can be expected to skyrocket.
Synonyms surge, upsurge, rise, increase, escalation, jump, leap, boost, intensification, augmentation
verbbəldʒbəlj [no object]1Swell or protrude to an unnatural or incongruous extent. the veins in his neck bulged Example sentencesExamples - Carey's eyes seemed to bulge, the cords on his neck standing taut.
- Its order books are bulging and profits are up 70% on the back of a soaring aerospace market.
- Therefore, any food container that bulges or swells may contain gas produced by C. botulinum and should not be opened or tasted.
- A long torso may mean roomier accommodations for a baby, making it less likely for a woman's belly to bulge outward.
- This takes account of the fact that the earth isn't a perfect sphere - it bulges slightly at the equator - so the best global grid isn't a sphere, it's an ellipsoid.
- He could feel the blood pumping through the veins that were starting to bulge out of the neck muscles.
- In the high mountains, the bellies of top climbers bulge like bowling balls.
- These dots appear like perforations in a three-dimensional surface that, close up, seems to bulge and swell and recede.
- He was at least as tall as Veltrop Plinn and his thick muscles bulged in his neck and arms.
- Sometimes it can be genuinely disabling without the right treatment, if a nerve is trapped or a disc is bulging.
- The danger is that straining to empty the bowel may damage it, leading to diverticular disease, in which the lining of the intestines bulges through weaknesses in their muscles.
- Some say sluggish blood and lymph circulation allow fluids and toxins to accumulate, causing fat cells to inflate and bulge up against the skin.
- I turned round and there behind me stood an enormous Maori man whose tattooed biceps bulged from his singlet.
- Romantic or touching moments are cued with swelling music, unbelievably swelling music that bulges and finally erupts from your speakers to reach a peak of splendiferousness.
- They can be quite painful and because of the contractions, the muscle often becomes hard and appears to be bulging.
- My eyes bulged and I stared at the board in bewilderment.
- Satan could see the veins in Simon's neck begin to bulge, his jaw tighten.
- Jenkins' eyes, already wild and dilated, began to bulge as he fought for breath.
- Danny froze and the General's eyes bulged as he puffed his moustache.
- The children are obviously terrified: they swallow nervously, their eyes bulge, they stand with stiff little postures and when they lose, they look stricken and sob on their mothers' shoulders.
Synonyms swell, swell out, puff out, puff up, stick out, balloon, balloon out, balloon up, fill out, bag, belly - 1.1 Be full of and distended with.
a briefcase bulging with documents Example sentencesExamples - Years bleed into one another as file cabinets bulge with extraneous information.
- It is early morning on the Greek island of Paxos and a bearded Dalietos has just returned from the harbour with a carrier bag bulging with fish.
- On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists.
- I'm one of those people who comes back from a visit to the beach with my pockets bulging with stuff I've picked up.
- It goes without saying that shoppers who are ill-advised enough to carry them at all invariably have a purse or wallet bulging with them.
- Tony must feel like a man who has a wallet bulging with notes in one hand and a clutch of pressing bills in the other.
- Computer screens glow, fax machines stutter out reams of paper and the filing cabinets which line every wall bulge with thousands of documents.
- All over the city, pockets are bulging with loose change and the burden of having no one to give it to.
- This is a volume bulging with examples of wasteful use of public money, arousing laughter and scorn in equal measure.
- Now, the harbour and the main town are a prime day-tripper destination, bulging with buses.
- He patted an example of a feedback file, which was bulging with faxed compliments for a very busy individual.
- Did she hand over the goods in a service station on the M1 in exchange for a brown envelope bulging with cash?
- His pockets bulge with change, because when he goes to a shop he can never hear when the assistant tells him how much to pay, and so always proffers a £5 note.
- As he spoke, one hand casually drifted toward the cigarbox bulging with dollar bills.
- Newspapers bulge with travel advertisements and articles telling us about the wonders of the world.
- Initially, my postbag would bulge with letters about this issue in October and November as Guy Fawkes Night, November 5, approached.
- His pocket is bulging with invitations to his barbecue, but his mind is busy with the speech he is about to make to launch his Orkney Society.
- He was carrying several shopping bags, bulging with packets and tins.
- So they said yes, it takes me a few hours a week and they give me a suitcase bulging with cash each year in return.
- Some files in the museum are bulging with information, others, like Philip's, have remained empty.
Origin Middle English: from Old French boulge, from Latin bulga (see budget). The original meaning was ‘wallet or bag’, later ‘a ship's bilge’ (early 17th century); other senses presumably derived from association with the shape of a full bag. |