Bulge

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  • noun. A protruding part; an outward curve or swelling.
  • noun. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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. The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Something sticking out from a surface.
  • verb. To stick out from (a surface).
  • verb. To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "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."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    divulge  indulge  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ache  bruise  bump  buttock  contour  
    Synonym
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    advantage  allowance  bag  bag  balloon  
    variant
    bilge  
    verb-form
    bulged  bulges  bulging