Bulk vs. Volume — What's the Difference?

Size, mass, or volume, especially when very large.

Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface, for example, the space that a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or 3D shape occupies or contains. Volume is often quantified numerically using the SI derived unit, the cubic metre.

A distinct mass or portion of matter, especially a large one

A collection of written or printed sheets bound together; a book.

The body of a human, especially when large or muscular.

One of the books of a work printed and bound in more than one book.

The major portion or greater part

A series of issues of a periodical, usually covering one calendar year.

See fiber.

A unit of written material assembled together and cataloged in a library.

Thickness of paper or cardboard in relation to weight.

A roll of parchment; a scroll.

A ship's cargo.

The amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object or region of space, expressed in cubic units.

To be or appear to be massive in terms of size, volume, or importance; loom

The capacity of such a region or of a specified container, expressed in cubic units.

To grow or increase in size or importance.

Amount; quantity:a low volume of business; a considerable volume of lumber.

To cohere or form a mass

OftenvolumesA large amount:volumes of praise.

To cause to swell or expand.

The amplitude or loudness of a sound.

To cause to cohere or form a mass.

A control, as on a radio, for adjusting amplitude or loudness.

Being large in mass, quantity, or volume

A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.

Size, specifically, volume.

Strength of sound; loudness.

Any huge body or structure.

The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.

The major part of something.

A bound book.

Dietary fibre.

A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.

Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.

A great amount (of meaning) about something.

(countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.

(obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.

(bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.

Quantity.

(bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.

A rounded mass or convolution.

(brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.

(economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.

(obsolete) The body.

(computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

Being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)

(bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.

Total

(intransitive) To be conveyed through the air, waft.

(intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.

(transitive) To cause to move through the air, waft.

(intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.

(intransitive) To swell.

(intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.

A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.

(transitive) To put or hold in bulk.

Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.

To add bulk to, to bulk out.

Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.

Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.

The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.

Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.

The cargo of a vessel when stowed.

The amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object;

The body.

The property of something that is great in magnitude;

A projecting part of a building.

Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together;

To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.

A publication that is one of a set of several similar publications;

The property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part;

A relative amount;

The property of something that is great in magnitude;

The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);

The property possessed by a large mass

Stick out or up;

Cause to bulge or swell outwards