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Meaning of "bulge" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BULGE

From Old French bouge, from Latin bulga bag, probably of Gaulish origin.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BULGE

bulge  [bʌldʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BULGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bulge is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb bulge in English.

WHAT DOES BULGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of bulge in the English dictionary

The first definition of bulge in the dictionary is a swelling or an outward curve. Other definition of bulge is a sudden increase in number or volume, esp of population. Bulge is also the projecting part of an army's front line; salient.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BULGE

PRESENT

Present
I bulge
you bulge
he/she/it bulges
we bulge
you bulge
they bulge
Present continuous
I am bulging
you are bulging
he/she/it is bulging
we are bulging
you are bulging
they are bulging
Present perfect
I have bulged
you have bulged
he/she/it has bulged
we have bulged
you have bulged
they have bulged
Present perfect continuous
I have been bulging
you have been bulging
he/she/it has been bulging
we have been bulging
you have been bulging
they have been bulging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I bulged
you bulged
he/she/it bulged
we bulged
you bulged
they bulged
Past continuous
I was bulging
you were bulging
he/she/it was bulging
we were bulging
you were bulging
they were bulging
Past perfect
I had bulged
you had bulged
he/she/it had bulged
we had bulged
you had bulged
they had bulged
Past perfect continuous
I had been bulging
you had been bulging
he/she/it had been bulging
we had been bulging
you had been bulging
they had been bulging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will bulge
you will bulge
he/she/it will bulge
we will bulge
you will bulge
they will bulge
Future continuous
I will be bulging
you will be bulging
he/she/it will be bulging
we will be bulging
you will be bulging
they will be bulging
Future perfect
I will have bulged
you will have bulged
he/she/it will have bulged
we will have bulged
you will have bulged
they will have bulged
Future perfect continuous
I will have been bulging
you will have been bulging
he/she/it will have been bulging
we will have been bulging
you will have been bulging
they will have been bulging
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would bulge
you would bulge
he/she/it would bulge
we would bulge
you would bulge
they would bulge
Conditional continuous
I would be bulging
you would be bulging
he/she/it would be bulging
we would be bulging
you would be bulging
they would be bulging
Conditional perfect
I would have bulge
you would have bulge
he/she/it would have bulge
we would have bulge
you would have bulge
they would have bulge
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been bulging
you would have been bulging
he/she/it would have been bulging
we would have been bulging
you would have been bulging
they would have been bulging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you bulge
we let´s bulge
you bulge
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to bulge
Past participle
bulged
Present Participle
bulging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BULGE


bilge
bɪldʒ
divulge
daɪˈvʌldʒ
effulge
ɪˈfʌldʒ
emulge
ɪˈmʌldʒ
indulge
ɪnˈdʌldʒ
outbulge
ˌaʊtˈbʌldʒ
overindulge
ˌəʊvərɪnˈdʌldʒ
promulge
prəʊˈmʌldʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BULGE

bulbous bow
bulbously
bulbousness
bulbul
Bulg.
Bulgakov
Bulganin
Bulgar
Bulgaria
Bulgarian
bulger
bulginess
bulging
bulgingly
bulgur
bulgur wheat
bulgy
bulimia
bulimia nervosa
bulimiac

WORDS THAT END LIKE BULGE

advantage
age
average
badge
Battle of the Bulge
bridge
by and large
challenge
change
charge
college
coverage
damage
dodge
edge
exchange
lge
midriff bulge
saulge
voulge

Synonyms and antonyms of bulge in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BULGE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bulge» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of bulge

Translation of «bulge» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BULGE

Find out the translation of bulge to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bulge from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bulge» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鼓起
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sobresalir
570 millions of speakers

English

bulge
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उभार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انتفاخ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

выпуклость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inchar-se
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ফীতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dépasser
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bulge
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sich wölben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

突き出る
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불룩하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bulge
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự lên giá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வீக்கம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फुगवटा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şişkinlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

essere rigonfio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wybrzuszenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

опуклість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

umflatura
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διόγκωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bult
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

utbuktning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bule
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bulge

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BULGE»

The term «bulge» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.039 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BULGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bulge

EXAMPLES

2 QUOTES WITH «BULGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bulge.
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Ring Lardner
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
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Rob Reiner
The reason they don't make movies for adults and for people which are the largest bulge of the population is because they are not usually going to the movie the first weekend. They take a while to learn about it, probably word of mouth. It takes a lot of money to release a picture.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BULGE»

Discover the use of bulge in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bulge and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Battle of the Bulge, Vol. 2: Hell at Bütgenbach / Sieze the ...
Presents the story of the 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge, offering firsthand accounts from American and German soldiers.
Hans Wijers, 2010
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Battle of the Bulge 1944 (2): Bastogne
BULGE. By late December, even Hitler had given up hope of victory in the Ardennes. On 27 December, the 6th Panzer Army was ordered to go over to the defensive. Hitler's enthusiasms turned in another direction, to Alsace, hoping to exploit ...
Steven J Zaloga, 2013
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Panther vs Sherman: Battle of the Bulge 1944
In this book Steven J Zaloga offers a fascinating comparison between the two most important tanks involved in the crucial fighting of 1944, the American Sherman and the German Panther.
Steven Zaloga, 2012
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War Stories of the Battle of the Bulge
Here are the first-person stories of the American soldiers who repelled the powerful German onslaught that had threatened to turn the tide of battle in Western Europe during World War II. These are the stories of the desperate land battle ...
Michael Green, James D. Brown, 2010
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Battle of the Bulge, Vol. 1: The Losheim Gap/Holding the Line
• The U.S. Army's bloodiest battle of World War II • From-the-foxhole stories of American soldiers in combat • Based on official U.S. Army documents and after-action reports Most accounts of the Battle of the Bulge focus on Bastogne, ...
Hans Wijers, 2009
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The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Ardennes Offensive, 1944-1945
A welcome addition to previous histories of one of the most crucial battles ever fought by Americans.-John Toland, author of Battle: The Story of the Bulge and Adolf Hitler
Danny S. Parker, 2004
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11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944
An account of the 1944 Battle of the Bulge between Allied forces and Hitler's surviving army describes how Germany broke through Allied lines in the Ardennes Forest, sparking a ten-day conflict that proved pivotal to the war's outcome.
Stanley Weintraub, 2006
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Voices of the Bulge: Untold Stories from Veterans of the ...
Different from other histories of the Bulge, this book tells the story of this crucial campaign with first-person stories taken from the authors’ interviews of the American soldiers, both officers and enlisted personnel, who faced the ...
Michael Collins, Martin King, 2011
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Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge
Infantry Soldier describes in harrowing detail the life of the men assigned to infantry rifle platoons during World War II. Few people realize the enormously disproportionate burden the men in these platoons carried: although only 6 percent ...
George W. Neill, 2002
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Corps Commanders of the Bulge: Six American Generals and ...
Winton introduces the story of each phase of the Bulge with a theater-level overview of the major decisions and events that shaped the corps battles and, for the first time, fully integrates the crucial role of airpower into our ...
Harold R. Winton, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BULGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bulge is used in the context of the following news items.
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Inside the life of a Wall Street intern: It's not very hard, but it's grueling
One investment banking intern at a bulge bracket bank told us that, while his days are usually packed with busy-work, the work itself is never ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
2
Goldman Sachs names Karen Cook chairman of investment banking
Senior advisers are increasingly choosing to leave bulge brackets and taking their client relationships to smaller investment banks or starting ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
3
Bridge named for two local World War II heroes
He was sent to the front lines of the Battle of the Bulge in Luxemburg under Gen. George Patton. Portaro was injured with shrapnel in his leg ... «The Exponent Telegram, Jul 15»
4
Tehran's 'Just do it' generation makes up for lost time
Today there is an entire global youth bulge from Lagos to Beirut to Jakarta trying to overcome the many obstacles that have held them ... «CNN, Jul 15»
5
Can four fish oil pills a day keep the doctor away?
When the heart ejects blood into the blood vessels, pressure increases, creating a bulge in the vessel. PWV is the speed at which the bulge ... «Medical Xpress, Jul 15»
6
Book excerpt: Altered evidences, subjective findings and the …
The two most noticeable things about him were his thick glasses, through which his eyes seem to bulge, and a weak chin. He had a tendency to ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
7
A (Long Overdue) Letter to Donald Trump
He fought his way to Bastogne, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, under George Patton. He suffered an injury during the war. Thankfully ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
8
Islamic State's tactics are really similar to Nazi Germany's
Known as the Battle of the Bulge, the German armies drove the Allies back 50 miles under the cover of winter weather. The Allies stopped the ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
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Those Who Served: In Battle of the Bulge, 'if you want to live, you'll …
For the confusion of war, it's hard to top the Battle of the Bulge, where Chet Bleich and six other soldiers watched the Germans — supposedly ... «Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, Jul 15»
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Battle of the Bulge vet Mullins honored by Southern States
29, 1945, as his unit tried to turn back the German counterattack known as the Battle of the Bulge. At age 94, Mullins still raises a garden and ... «Richmond Register, Jul 15»

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