See also: Hull and hüll

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /hʌl/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌl

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English hul, hulle, holle (seed covering, hull of a ship), from Old English hulu (seed covering), from Proto-Germanic *hul- (compare Dutch hul (hood), German Hülle, Hülse (cover, veil)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (to cover, hide); or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kal- (hard) (compare 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).

Noun edit

hull (plural hulls)

  1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
    Synonyms: peel, husk, shell
  2. Any covering.
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hull (third-person singular simple present hulls, present participle hulling, simple past and past participle hulled)

  1. To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
    Synonyms: peel, husk, shell, shuck
    She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
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Etymology 2 edit

From Middle English holle, hoole (hull, hold of a ship, ship), of uncertain origin. Possibly a variant and special use of Etymology 1 above, conformed to hull. Alternatively, a variant of Middle English hole, hoole, holle (hiding place, lair, den, shelter, compartment, literally hole, hollow), related to Middle Dutch and Dutch hol (hole, ship's cargo hold). More at hole.

Noun edit

 
A diagram of a ship hull (sense 1)

hull (plural hulls)

  1. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
    Synonym: (of a winged aircraft) fuselage
    • 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, Quatrain 60, 1808, The Works of John Dryden, Volume 9, page 115,
      Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light, / And through the yielding planks a passage find.
  2. (mathematics, geometry, of a set A) 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.
    The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon.
    holomorphically convex hull; affine hull; injective hull
    Synonym: span
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hull (third-person singular simple present hulls, present participle hulling, simple past and past participle hulled)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
  2. (transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
    • 1774, George Shelvocke, “The Voyage of Captain Shelvock Round the World”, in David Henry, editor, An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators[2], volume 2, London: F. Newbery, page 163:
      During this action, we had not a man killed or wounded, although the enemy often hulled us, and once, in particular, a shot coming into one of our ports, dismounted one of our guns between decks []

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Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *hullu. Cognate to Finnish hullu and Livonian ull.

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hull (genitive hullu, partitive hullu, comparative hullem, superlative kõige hullem)

  1. crazy, mad

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Declension of hull (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative hull hullud
accusative nom.
gen. hullu
genitive hullude
partitive hullu hulle
hullusid
illative hullu
hullusse
hulludesse
hullesse
inessive hullus hulludes
hulles
elative hullust hulludest
hullest
allative hullule hulludele
hullele
adessive hullul hulludel
hullel
ablative hullult hulludelt
hullelt
translative hulluks hulludeks
hulleks
terminative hulluni hulludeni
essive hulluna hulludena
abessive hulluta hulludeta
comitative hulluga hulludega

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hull

  1. (intransitive) to fall
    Hull a hó.It's snowing. (literally, “The snow is falling.”)
    térdre hullto fall on one's knees
  2. (intransitive, of tears) to flow
  3. (intransitive, of hair) to fall out
  4. (intransitive) to die (in large quantities)
    Hullanak, mint a legyek.They are dying off like flies.

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In archaic or literary style, the short forms (with no linking vowel) are (were) common in the past tense, as well as in the present-tense conditional (even if it is long otherwise):

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  • hull in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Old Norse hól, probably through Danish hul. Compare to English hole

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Noun edit

hull n (definite singular hullet, indefinite plural hull or huller, definite plural hulla or hullene)

  1. a hole
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hull

  1. imperative of hulle

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hull n

  1. soft, superficial flesh (fat and muscle)
    Nypa någon i hullet
    Pinch someone's belly (for example)
    lägga på hullet
    get fatter ("lay on the flesh")
    fast/lös i hullet
    firm/loose in the flesh

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Declension of hull 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative hull hullet
Genitive hulls hullets

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