BULGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does bulge mean?
• BULGE (noun)
The noun BULGE has 1 sense:
1. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
Familiarity information: BULGE used as a noun is very rare.
• BULGE (verb)
The verb BULGE has 4 senses:
1. swell or protrude outwards
2. bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
3. bulge outward
4. cause to bulge or swell outwards
Familiarity information: BULGE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• BULGE (noun)
Meaning:
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
bulge; protuberance; protrusion; jut; hump; gibbousness; gibbosity; extrusion; excrescence; bump; prominence
Context examples:
the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge / the hump of a camel / he stood on the rocky prominence / the occipital protuberance was well developed / the bony excrescence between its horns
Hypernyms ("bulge" is a kind of...):
projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bulge"):
frontal eminence (either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit)
wart (any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals))
snag (a sharp protuberance)
nub; nubble (a small lump or protuberance)
mogul (a bump on a ski slope)
caput (a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure)
belly (a part that bulges deeply)
occipital protuberance (prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone)
• BULGE (verb)
Meaning:
Swell or protrude outwards
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
bulge; pouch; protrude
Context example:
His stomach bulged after the huge meal
Hypernyms (to "bulge" is one way to...):
change form; change shape; deform (assume a different shape or form)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bulge"):
bulk (stick out or up)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
bulge; bag
Hypernyms (to "bulge" is one way to...):
jut; jut out; project; protrude; stick out (extend out or project in space)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bulge"):
protuberate (form a rounded prominence)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sentence example:
The streets bulge with crowds
Meaning:
Bulge outward
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
pop; bulge out; bug out; pop out; protrude; bulge; come out; start
Context example:
His eyes popped
Hypernyms (to "bulge" is one way to...):
change form; change shape; deform (assume a different shape or form)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Cause to bulge or swell outwards
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
bulk; bulge
Hypernyms (to "bulge" is one way to...):
swell (cause to become swollen)
Cause:
bulge; pouch; protrude (swell or protrude outwards)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
