hull

CEFRB2

/hʌl/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The main body of a ship or boat.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any covering.

Examples

  • Hull was given immediate orders to invade Canada.

  • The alien shot his ray gun and blasted a hole in the spaceship's hull.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
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Parts of speech
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Citations
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.

  2. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.

  3. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.

More examples

In context

  • She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.

  • 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

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).