Bulk vs. Wholesale — What's the Difference?

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

The sale of goods in large quantities, as for resale by a retailer.

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

Of, relating to, or engaged in the sale of goods in large quantities for resale

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

Made or accomplished extensively and indiscriminately; blanket

The major portion or greater part

In large bulk or quantity.

See fiber.

Extensively; indiscriminately.

Thickness of paper or cardboard in relation to weight.

To sell in large quantities for resale.

A ship's cargo.

To engage in wholesale selling.

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

To be sold wholesale.

To grow or increase in size or importance.

(business) The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.

To cohere or form a mass

Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.

To cause to swell or expand.

(figurative) Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.

To cause to cohere or form a mass.

In bulk or large quantity.

Being large in mass, quantity, or volume

(figurative) Indiscriminately.

Size, specifically, volume.

To sell at wholesale.

Any huge body or structure.

Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail.

The major part of something.

Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price.

Dietary fibre.

Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter.

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

The selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers

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

Sell in large quantities

(bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.

Selling or related to selling goods in large quantities for resale to the consumer;

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

Ignoring distinctions;

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

At a wholesale price;

(obsolete) The body.

On a large scale without careful discrimination;

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

Total

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

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

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

(transitive) To put or hold in bulk.

To add bulk to, to bulk out.

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

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

The cargo of a vessel when stowed.

The body.

A projecting part of a building.

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

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

The property of something that is great in magnitude;

The property possessed by a large mass

Stick out or up;

Cause to bulge or swell outwards