bulging
bulge
noun[ C ]
uk /bʌldʒ/ us /bʌldʒ/
a curved shape sticking out from the surface of something: 凸起；鼓起
I wondered what the bulge in her coat pocket was.我想知道她大衣口袋里鼓鼓的是什么东西。
a sudden increase that soon returns to the usual level: 暂时的激增；突然上涨
There was a bulge in spending in the early part of the year.年初时开支曾出现突然上涨。

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bulge | American Dictionary

bulge
verb[ I ]
us/bʌldʒ/
to stick out or be swollen:
The girl’s cheek bulged with a wad of gum.
If you say that someone’s eyes bulge, you mean that the person's eyes are opened wide, esp. because the person is frightened, surprised, or excited.

bulge

noun[ C ]us/bʌldʒ/
The bulge in his pocket showed where he kept his wallet.

Examples of bulge

bulge
He always carried a briefcase bulging with documents which he said were incriminating and were usually irrelevant to whatever accusations he was making.
She then found that one of the walls bulged, and wanted to get compensation from the surveyor.
The widened coronary sinus itself never bulged into die left atrium.
The interatrial septum bulged to the left, contributing further to the huge right atrium.
The bulges and indentations are carried downstream by the flow.
We encoded secondary structure in the alignment, identifying stems, loops and bulges, and manually excluded regions of ambiguous alignment from the final dataset.
The social policy literature is bulging with very diverse taxonomies and discussions of problems with consumer choice programmes.
The incipient drops are connected by a thin bridge which is sometimes cylindrical and sometimes bulges when a more substantial secondary drop occurs.
The misogyny of the work is tempered by the mien of the suitor: eyes bulging, he, too, shows his teeth in an unflattering, goofy grimace.
He performed the procedure on detection of cervical dilatation with bulging membranes in the second trimester.
The coating is bulged around the ablated area.
At necropsy a tumor was seen bulging in the anterior wall of the left ventricle and in the ventricular septum.
The flap valve of the oval foramen can be seen bulging into the right atrium.
However, using any of the three boundary conditions, the bulging solutions located in the unlimited flow phase are found to be stable.
There was a significant difference in the duration of cerclage in situ in the group without bulging membranes (88.3 vs 23.7 days).
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