BULGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bulging mean? 

• BULGING (adjective)
  The adjective BULGING has 2 senses:

1. curving or bulging outward

2. curving outward

  Familiarity information: BULGING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Curving or bulging outward

Synonyms:

bulging; convex

Similar:

bell-shaped (having a convex shape that resembles a bell)

biconvex; convexo-convex; lenticular; lentiform (convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil)

broken-backed; hogged ((of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end)

convexo-concave (convex on one side and concave on the other with the convexity being greater than the concavity)

gibbose; gibbous ((used of the moon) more than half full)

helmet-shaped (having the convex shape of a helmet)

planoconvex (flat on one side and convex on the other)

umbel-like; umbellate (resembling an umbel in form)

Also:

protrusive (thrusting outward)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Curving outward

Synonyms:

bellied; bellying; bulbous; bulging; bulgy; protuberant

Similar:

protrusive (thrusting outward)

 Context examples 

The bulging or depression of the membranous soft spots can be indicative of intracranial fluid buildup or systemic dehydration.

(Fontanelle, NCI Thesaurus)

In babies, additional symptoms may include constant crying, poor feeding, body stiffness, and bulging in the soft spots of the skull.

(Encephalitis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

In the grocery store, avoid cans that are bulging or jars that have cracks or loose lids.

(Food Safety, United States Department of Agriculture)

The bulging of an internal organ through a weak area or tear in the muscle or other tissue that holds it in place.

(Hernia, NCI Dictionary)

The yellow cottage, standing back a little from the road, with its upper story bulging forward and a crisscross of black woodwork let into the plaster, is the one in which we lived.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was Brissenden, and in the fleeting glimpse, ere the car started up, Martin noted the overcoat pockets, one bulging with books, the other bulging with a quart bottle of whiskey.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

After five days they returned, their eyes bulging and their tongues a-tremble to tell what they had seen.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But each time it was the bulging face of the saloon-keeper that peered in at him by the sickly light of a tallow candle.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The bulging back of Cherokee's neck was the only portion of his body that White Fang's teeth could reach.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A sensor array off the Pacific Northwest coast has captured the cracking, bulging and shaking from the eruption of Axial Seamount, a nearly mile-high undersea volcano, in more detail than ever before.

(Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory, NSF)