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hull
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?l/
- Rhymes: -?l
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 *?el- (“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 ?????? (kaliti, “to cool, harden”)). For the sense development, compare French coque (“nutshell; ship's hull”), Ancient Greek ??????? (phás?los, “bean pod; yacht”).
Noun
hull (plural hulls)
- The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
- Any covering.
Synonyms
- (outer covering of fruit or seed): peel, husk, shell
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
hull (third-person singular simple present hulls, present participle hulling, simple past and past participle hulled)
- To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
- She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
Synonyms
- (to remove hull of a fruit or seed): 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)
- The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
- 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.
- 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, Quatrain 60, 1808, The Works of John Dryden, Volume 9, page 115,
- (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.
- holomorphically convex hull; affine hull; injective hull
Synonyms
- (frame of a vessel): fuselage (of a winged aircraft)
- (smallest set containing a given set of points): span
Derived terms
- affine hull
- convex hull
- invective hull
Translations
Verb
hull (third-person singular simple present hulls, present participle hulling, simple past and past participle hulled)
- (obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
- c. 1612, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 4,[1]
- […] Thus hulling in
- The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer
- Toward this remedy, whereupon we are
- Now present here together:
- 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 8,[2]
- In this virtuous voyage of life hull not about like the ark, without the use of rudder, mast, or sail, and bound for no port.
- c. 1612, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 4,[1]
- (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 (ed.), An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators, London: F. Newbery, Volume 2, p. 163,[3]
- 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 […]
- 1774, George Shelvocke, The Voyage of Captain Shelvock Round the World in David Henry (ed.), An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators, London: F. Newbery, Volume 2, p. 163,[3]
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *hullu. Cognate to Finnish hullu and Livonian ull.
Adjective
hull (genitive hullu, partitive hullu)
- crazy, mad
Declension
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- hullik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?hul?]
- Rhymes: -ul?
Verb
hull
- (intransitive) to fall
- (intransitive, of tears) to flow
- (intransitive, of hair) to fall out
- (intransitive) to die (in large quantities)
Conjugation
or
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Further reading
- hull in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hól
Alternative forms
- hol
Noun
hull n (definite singular hullet, indefinite plural hull or huller, definite plural hulla or hullene)
- a hole
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
hull
- imperative of hulle
See also
- hòl (Nynorsk)
References
- “hull” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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hula
English
Alternative forms
- hula-hula, hula hula, (obsolete) hura
Etymology
Borrowed from Hawaiian hula.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?hu?l?/
- (General American) enPR: ho?o?l?, IPA(key): /?hul?/
- Rhymes: -u?l?
- Hyphenation: hu?la
Noun
hula (plural hulas)
- A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
Derived terms
- hula hoop
Translations
Verb
hula (third-person singular simple present hulas, present participle hulaing, simple past and past participle hulaed)
- (intransitive) To dance the hula.
Anagrams
- haul
Cebuano
Alternative forms
- hulahula
Etymology
From English hula, from Hawaiian hula.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: hu?la
Noun
hula
- hula; a form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there
Verb
hula
- to dance the hula
Finnish
Noun
hula
- hula
Declension
Anagrams
- halu, luha
Hausa
Noun
h??l? f (plural h?lun??, possessed form h??lar?)
- cap, hat - especially, the traditional embroidered cap worn by Hausa men
Hawaiian
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hu.la/, [?hul?]
Noun
hula
- a form of dance native to the Hawaiian Islands
- a hula dancer
- a chant or song which accompanies the dance
Verb
hula
- (transitive) to dance the hula
- (transitive) to chant in accompaniment with the dance
- (intransitive) to twitch
Derived terms
- ho?ohula
Descendants
- English: hula
- Japanese: ??
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h??la/
- Rhymes: -??la
Noun
hula f (genitive singular hulu, nominative plural hulur)
- mist, haze
- veil, cover
Declension
Synonyms
- (mist): móða
- (veil): blæja, hjúpur, slæða, skýla, slör
Related terms
- hylja (“to hide, to conceal”)
Irish
Noun
hula
- h-prothesized form of ula
Lower Sorbian
Noun
hula
- Obsolete spelling of wula
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- hulen
Noun
hula m or f
- definite feminine singular of hule
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- hula-hula
Etymology
Through English from Hawaiian hula.
Noun
hula m (definite singular hulaen, indefinite plural hulaer or hulaar, definite plural hulaene or hulaane)
- hula
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xu.la/
- Homophone: chula
Verb
hula
- third-person singular present of hula?
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
hula f (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- blasphemy
Synonyms
- huljenje
Venda
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-k??da.
Verb
hula
- to grow, to increase
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