Balk vs. Bulk
Balknoun
An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
Balknoun
(archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
Balknoun
Beam, crossbeam.
Balknoun
A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
Balknoun
A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
Balknoun
(sports) A deceptive motion; a feint.
Balknoun
(baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
Balknoun
(badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
Balknoun
(billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
Balknoun
(snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
Balknoun
(fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
Balkverb
(archaic) To pass over or by.
Balkverb
To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
Balkverb
(obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid.
Balkverb
To stop, check, block.
Balkverb
To stop short and refuse to go on.
Balkverb
To refuse suddenly.
Balkverb
To disappoint; to frustrate.
Balkverb
To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
Balkverb
To leave or make balks in.
Balkverb
To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
Balkverb
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
Balknoun
A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.
Balknoun
A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks."
Balknoun
One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.
Balknoun
A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
Balknoun
A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
Balknoun
A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball. It is illegal and is penalized by allowing the runners on base to advance one base.
Balkverb
To leave or make balks in.
Balkverb
To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
Balkverb
To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
Balkverb
To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.
Balkverb
To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to thwart; as, to balk expectation.
Balkverb
To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
Balkverb
To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.
Balkverb
to commit a balk{6}; - of a pitcher.
Balkverb
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
Balknoun
the area on a billiard table behind the balkline;
Balknoun
something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
Balknoun
one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
Balknoun
an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
Balkverb
refuse to comply
Balk
In baseball, a pitcher can commit a number of illegal motions or actions that constitute a balk. Most of these violations involve a pitcher pretending to pitch when they have no intention of doing so.
Bulknoun
Size, specifically, volume.
Bulknoun
Any huge body or structure.
Bulknoun
The major part of something.
Bulknoun
The result of water retained by fibre.
Bulknoun
Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
Bulknoun
(countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
Bulknoun
(bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
Bulknoun
(bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
Bulknoun
(brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
Bulknoun
(obsolete) The body.
Bulkadjective
being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
Bulkadjective
total
Bulkverb
(intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
Bulkverb
(intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
Bulkverb
(intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
Bulkverb
(transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
Bulknoun
Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
Bulknoun
The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
Bulknoun
The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
Bulknoun
The body.
Bulknoun
A projecting part of a building.
Bulkverb
To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
Bulknoun
the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part;
Bulknoun
the property of something that is great in magnitude;
Bulknoun
the property possessed by a large mass
Bulkverb
stick out or up;
Bulkverb
cause to bulge or swell outwards
