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4-letter words (1 found)

HULL,

2-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of hull

hull

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hʌl/
  • Rhymes: -ʌl

Etymology 1

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

hull (plural hulls)

  1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
    Synonyms: peel, husk, shell
  2. Any covering.
Derived terms
  • rice hull
Translations

Verb

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
Translations

Etymology 2

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

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.
    Synonym: span
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Translations

Verb

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.

Estonian

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

  1. crazy, mad

Declension

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • hullik

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhulː]
  • Rhymes: -ulː

Verb

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.

Usage notes

  • The traditional form is without -ik, but the variant with -ik is spreading, especially in reference to hair.[3]
  • This verb is called a pseudo-ik verb, as its -ik ending presents itself only in the 3rd-person singular (indicative present) form, but it is not an -ik verb in any other aspect. As a result, it cannot take the -om/-em/-öm ending in the 1st-person singular (indicative present) form, even in the most erudite style, only -ok/-ek/-ök. Naturally, the optional -m ending cannot appear, either, in their subjunctive or conditional 1st-person singular forms, so only -jak/-jek and -nék is possible in these respective forms. These verbs include the following: bomlik, (el)bújik, (meg)érik, (le)folyik, (össze)gyűlik, hazudik, (le)hull(ik), (bele)/(oda)illik, (meg)jelenik, (el)kopik, (el)múlik, ömlik, (meg)születik, (meg)szűnik, (meg)telik, tojik, (el)törik, (el)/(fel)tűnik, (el)válik, and (el)züllik. (Ki)nyílik partially belongs here, as it cannot take the first-person -om ending but it can take the third-person -jék.

Conjugation

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):

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Further reading

  • 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • hol

Noun

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

  1. a hole
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

hull

  1. imperative of hulle

See also

  • hòl (Nynorsk)

References

  • “hull” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

hull n

  1. soft, superficial flesh (fat and muscle)

Declension

Derived terms

  • med hull och hår

References

  • hull in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • hull in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • hull in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org