English Explanatory Dictionary

hull

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
  2. Any covering.
verb
  1. To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
noun
  1. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
  2. The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
verb
  1. To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
  2. To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
name
  1. A placename:
  2. A river in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, which flows into the Humber.
  3. The common name of Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
  4. Hull, Quebec: The central business district and oldest neighborhood of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
  5. Any of various places in the United States:
  6. An unincorporated community in DeSoto County, Florida.
  7. A city in Madison County, Georgia.
  8. A village in Pike County, Illinois.
  9. A city in Sioux County, Iowa.
  10. A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
  11. An unincorporated community in Emmons County, North Dakota.
  12. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Liberty County, Texas.

Pronunciation

/hʌl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hull.wav /hʊl/ /ʊl/

Word forms

hull hulls hulling hulled

Etymology

From Middle English hul, hulle, holle (“seed covering, hull of a ship”), from Old English hulu (“seed covering”), from Proto-Germanic *hul-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide”); or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kal- (“hard”). Compare Dutch hul (“hood”), German Hülle (“cover, wrap”), Hülse (“hull”); also Old Irish calad, calath (“hard”), Latin callus, callum (“rough skin”), Old Church Slavonic калити (kaliti, “to cool, harden”). For the sense development, compare French coque (“nutshell; ship's hull”), Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “bean pod; yacht”).

Synonyms

peel husk shell shuck fuselage span

Derived words

hully soyhull rice hull affine hull ahull convex hull dehull hull breach hull-down hulled hulless hull-less hull loss hull operator hull speed hull splash hull-up invective hull monohull multihull pressure hull tank hull turtle hull twinhull Bishop's Hull Kingston upon Hull Ottawa-Hull: Sutton-on-Hull

Translations

Bulgarian: Хъл Chinese Mandarin: 赫爾 /赫尔 Macedonian: Хал Old English: Hul Russian: Гулль Russian: Халл French: Hull
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