What's the difference between baulk and bulk?

Baulk


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Balk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A safety to the baulk ends the threat and we're into a longer-range safety exchange.
  • (2) His appointment as chief executive is recent enough for him to baulk at the idea of handing over the reins to someone else.
  • (3) It’s a really horrible feeling that this is now playing smack-bang into the far right’s hands.” Cologne attacks: mayor lambasted for telling women to keep men at arm's length Read more The anxiety has extended to the media, including the evening news programme that tweeted the question to its viewers: “How should we cover the events in Cologne?” and baulked at even touching the item itself until five days after the event.
  • (4) Pyne said the meeting had “made great progress” on pushing mathematics and science to the forefront of schooling, despite states baulking at the push for one of the subjects to be compulsory in years 11 and 12.
  • (5) Where the banks and federal government baulked, Gotbaum and other union leaders persuaded their members to throw $2.5 billion in pension funds – often their entire savings for old age – behind the city’s bonds.
  • (6) Not only would the party’s Stalinist-like discipline compare favourably with the chaos and backbiting that would infect the coalition government, but the Shinners would play it all to their advantage in other ways.” With senior Fianna Fáil personnel baulking at the prospect of a formal coalition government with Fine Gael and remaining on the opposition benches, it appears so far that they will not be gifting any “grand coalition wet dream” to Sinn Féin in the near future.
  • (7) Any prolongation will be costly with the EU's core creditor members almost certain to baulk at handing out another 20 bn euro - the estimated cost of extending the program.
  • (8) But they criticised the fact that leaders had baulked at Merkel’s proposal that they should agree to immediate binding emission targets.
  • (9) Japan has become keener on free-trade agreements but may baulk at dismantling its agricultural protectionism.
  • (10) Labor frontbencher Penny Wong said it was unfortunate that the prime minister appeared to be baulking at the bill.
  • (11) But baulked of his ambition to lead Britain into the EEC by de Gaulle, Macmillan's greatest achievement in foreign policy lay in hastening the thaw in relations with the Soviet Union in the post-Stalin, post-Dulles world.
  • (12) And now this year Noël had descended upon it in its fullest and most splendid robes of state, as though to emphasise the fact that it was not to be baulked by the petty machinations of men.
  • (13) That those who saw this chance did not baulk at it.
  • (14) His performances back then gave little reason to baulk at a suitable fee but Mané has been in stunning form during the final two months of the season – scoring eight goals in as many games and showing marked improvement in much of his build up play – and looks very much the kind of player an upwardly mobile team needs to stick around.
  • (15) Gerwig may baulk at the comparison, but Baumbach tells me that the character of Frances Ha – footloose free spirit; pratfalling dancer – was directly informed by her.
  • (16) Milne also suggested that although the national government "had baulked at the idea of introducing legislation to standardise packaging", this would be a progressive step and would discourage children and young people from taking up smoking.
  • (17) The lead is 29, but it's worth more given that the majority of reds are up in baulk.
  • (18) 9.11pm BST A safety exchange sends a number of reds up towards baulk, before Selby leaves a tight one to the middle.
  • (19) But it was his poverty of imagination that did for Murray; even when there was little to lose, as Federer hit occasionally sublime heights of excellence to go two sets up, Murray baulked at coming to the net.
  • (20) The government had an opportunity to act, and has baulked.

Bulk


Definition:

  • (n.) Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
  • (n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
  • (n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
  • (n.) The body.
  • (v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
  • (v.) A projecting part of a building.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
  • (2) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
  • (3) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
  • (4) Chromatographic separation revealed that the bulk (85%) of the mitogenic activity in SSV-transformed NRK cells was not due to p28v-sis but rather two distinct endothelial cell growth factors that eluted off heparin-Sepharose between 1 and 2 M NaCl.
  • (5) The remainder of the plasmid appeared to be associated with five positioned nucleosomes and two nonnucleosomal, partially protected regions on the bulk of the molecules.
  • (6) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
  • (7) The surface film transition is especially noted in the pressure-area curve of the surfactant and approximates in two dimensions the broad thermotropic phase transition of the bulk phase surfactant.
  • (8) Serine (12.0-18.2%), tyrosine (5.8-9.0%) and glycine (4.5-7.1%), along with arginine, make up the bulk of the amino acid residues in these molecules.
  • (9) Age at diagnosis (greater than or equal to 60 years vs less than or equal to 60 years), total number of involved sites, tumor bulk (mass size greater than or equal to 10 cm vs less than 10 cm), serum LDH (greater than or equal to 500 Units) and prompt achievement of complete remission following intensive combination regimens appear to be the most important variables predicting for cure in aggressive lymphomas.
  • (10) The repaired alveolar processes were similar in bulk and contour in sites grafted with NPHA and with bone.
  • (11) The results are presented as effectiveness factor plots graphed as functions of bulk galactose and oxygen concentrations.
  • (12) The relative permittivity and conductivity of rabbit eye lens were measured in the frequency domain between 2 and 18 GHz at temperatures of 37 and 20 degrees C. An analysis of the data suggested that a significant proportion of the bulk water in nuclear and cortical lens tissue may behave differently to pure water.
  • (13) Any substance applied into the bulk solution must pass through this layer by diffusion before reaching the receptors.2.
  • (14) However, the studies on 0-2A progenitor cells were carried out in bulk cultures of optic nerve, and so it was possible that other cell-cell interactions were required for differentiation in culture.
  • (15) When estimates of milk loss were replaced by estimates based on bulk tank somatic cell counts, milk loss accounted for over 80% of the total cost of mastitis.
  • (16) By comparing the results of the electroimmunoassay of fractions obtained by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of human leukocyte interferon with the antiviral activity of the fractions, an excellent dissociation of molecules with interferon activity from the bulk of contaminating antigens was achieved.
  • (17) The receptor subregion that interacts with the propyl C-1 of 1 is more tolerant of bulk and of polar substituents than the subregion that interacts with propyl C-3.
  • (18) Dynamic computerized tomography (CT) was performed on 42 patients with acute head injury to evaluate the hemodynamics and to elucidate the nature of fatal diffuse brain bulk enlargement.
  • (19) At pH 7.0, acrylamide partitions between the bulk aqueous phase and the proteins, human serum albumin, monellin and ovalbumin.
  • (20) The fact that good activity was maintained in these new analogues, which possess hydrophilicity and steric bulk considerably different from the parent compound, suggests that neither end of these molecules is critical for recognition and binding of the inhibitors by renin.

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