bulge n : something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form [syn: bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]

1 swell or protrude outwards; "His eyes bulged with surprise" [syn: pouch, protrude]

2 bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge [syn: bag]

3 bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: protrude, pop, pop out, bulge out, bug out, come out]

4 cause to bulge or swell outwards [syn: bulk]

English

Noun

1. Something sticking out from a surface.

   The bulge on the dog's neck indicated there was something wrong.

Translations

• Finnish: pullistuma, kohouma
• Italian: sporgenza , protuberanza
• Japanese: 出っ張り (でっぱり, deppari)
• Korean: 부루퉁이 (burutungI), 뾰루지 (ppyoruji), 혹 (hog, hok)
• Portuguese: protuberância, saliência
• Spanish: bulto , abultamiento

Verb

1. To stick out from (a surface).

   The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.

Translations

• Finnish: pullottaa

A bulge is something which sticks out from a surface.

Bulge may also refer to:

• A localized discontinuity in an extended military line, for example, the Battle of the Bulge, a major World War II battle
• A slang metonym for penis, referring to a visible protrusion through clothing
• A hernia is sometimes referred to as a bulge or bulge out.

In astronomy:

• Bulge (astronomy), a tightly packed group of stars at the center of a spiral galaxy
• Equatorial bulge, a bulge around the equator of a planet due to rapid rotation
• Polar bulge, a bulge in a planet or moon at its poles, distorting it into a prolate spheroid
• Tidal bulge, a bulge of land or water on a planet created by the pull of another object in orbit

In World War II:

• Battle of the Bulge, a major German offensive on the Western front near the end of 1944 and into early 1945.

See also

• Bilge

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