bulk vs balk vs baulk
Definitions
verb
- stick out or up
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
noun
- the property possessed by a large mass
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
Examples
Although there are a couple of jarring transitions, the bulk of the movie unfolds with organic clarity.
Despite his bulk he moved lightly on his feet.
Numerous small contributions soon bulk up into a considerable sum.
Definitions
verb
- refuse to comply
noun
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
Examples
When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner.
Some may balk at the frivolous approach to taking drugs, but few series are as vocal in their celebration of youthful individuality.
Brown had been hobbled since training camp with a balky left knee that caused him pain from the second day of practice.
Definitions
verb
- refuse to comply
noun
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
Examples
These Mesolithic cultures (Mesolithic, meaning Middle Stone Age, describes postIce Age European hunter-gatherers) achieved some degree of social complexity in Scandinavia, where richly decorated individuals were buried in cemeteries by 5500 B.C.E. These same cultures were the indigenous societies of Europe, farmers who first spread north and west across central Europe from the Balkans after 4500 B.C.E. 1
It is true: but liberality baulkes, and feares covetousnesse and niggardize, more a great deale then prodigallity; so does zeale lukewarmnes and coldnesse, more then too much heate and forwardnesse; the defect is more opposite and dangerous to some vertues, then the excesse.
When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner.
