bulk vs volume

bulk

verb
  • To grow in size; to swell or expand. 

  • To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent. 

  • To put or hold in bulk. 

  • To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc. 

adj
  • being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.) 

  • total 

noun
  • A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist. 

  • The major part of something. 

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

  • Dietary fibre. 

  • Size, specifically, volume. 

  • a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo. 

  • Excess body mass, especially muscle. 

  • A period where one tries to gain muscle. 

  • Any huge body or structure. 

volume

verb
  • To swell. 

  • To be conveyed through the air, waft. 

  • To cause to move through the air, waft. 

noun
  • An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk. 

  • Strength of sound; loudness. 

  • Quantity. 

  • A rounded mass or convolution. 

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

  • A great amount (of meaning) about something. 

  • A bound book. 

  • 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. 

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

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

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

How often have the words bulk and volume occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )