View in context. The head waiter's fee is a shade less than the portier's; the Boots, who not only blacks your boots and brushes your clothes, but is usually the porter and handles your baggage, gets a somewhat smaller fee than the head waiter; the chambermaid's fee ranks below that of the Boots.
â¢ BULK (noun) The noun BULK has 3 senses: 1. the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part. 2. the property of something that is great in magnitude. 3. the property possessed by a large mass. Familiarity information: BULK used as a noun is uncommon.
Like the active transport processes that move ions and small molecules via carrier proteins, bulk transport is an energy-requiring (and, in fact, energy-intensive) process. Here, weâll look at the different modes of bulk transport: phagocytosis, pinocytosis, receptor-mediated endocytosis, and exocytosis.