hull

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: Hull and hüll

English[edit]

English Wikipedia has articles on:
Wikipedia

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English hul (“seed covering”), 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[edit]
  • (outer covering of fruit or seed): husk, shell
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

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.
    She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.

Noun[edit]

hull (plural hulls)

  1. 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.
  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

Synonyms[edit]

  • (frame of a vessel): fuselage (of a winged aircraft)
  • (smallest set containing a given set of points): span

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

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 (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 […]

Estonian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

hull (genitive hullu, partitive hullu)

  1. crazy, mad

Declension[edit]

Declension of hull (type riik)
singular plural
nominative hull hullud
genitive hullu hullude
partitive hullu hulle / hullusid
illative hullu / hullusse hulludesse
inessive hullus hulludes
elative hullust hulludest
allative hullule hulludele
adessive hullul hulludel
ablative hullult hulludelt
translative hulluks hulludeks
terminative hulluni hulludeni
essive hulluna hulludena
abessive hulluta hulludeta
comitative hulluga hulludega

Hungarian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

hull

  1. (intransitive) to fall
    Hull a hó. ― It's snowing. (Literally: The snow is falling.)
    térdre hull ― to fall on one's knees
  2. (of tears) to flow
  3. (of hair) to fall out
  4. (intransitive) to die
    Hullanak, mint a legyek. ― They are dying off like flies.

Conjugation[edit]

conjugation of hull
Infinitive hullni
Past participle hullt
Present participle hulló
Future participle -
Adverbial participle hullva
Potential hullhat
1st person sg 2nd person sg informal 3rd person sg,
2nd person sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl informal 3rd person pl,
2nd person pl formal
Indicative mood Present Indefinite hullok hullsz hull hullunk hulltok hullnak
Definite intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
Past Indefinite hulltam hulltál hullt hulltunk hulltatok hulltak
Definite -
Conditional mood Present Indefinite hullnék hullnál hullna hullnánk hullnátok hullnának
Definite -
Subjunctive mood Present Indefinite hulljak hullj
or
hulljál 		hulljon hulljunk hulljatok hulljanak
Definite -
Conjugated infinitive hullnom hullnod hullnia hullnunk hullnotok hullniuk

or

conjugation of hull
Infinitive hullani
Past participle hullott
Present participle hulló
Future participle -
Adverbial participle hullva
Potential hullhat
1st person sg 2nd person sg informal 3rd person sg,
2nd person sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl informal 3rd person pl,
2nd person pl formal
Indicative mood Present Indefinite hullok hullasz hull hullunk hullotok hullanak
Definite intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
Past Indefinite hullottam hullottál hullott hullottunk hullottatok hullottak
Definite -
Conditional mood Present Indefinite hullanék hullanál hullana hullanánk hullanátok hullanának
Definite -
Subjunctive mood Present Indefinite hulljak hullj
or
hulljál 		hulljon hulljunk hulljatok hulljanak
Definite -
Conjugated infinitive hullanom hullanod hullania hullanunk hullanotok hullaniuk

Derived terms[edit]

(With verbal prefixes):

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse hól

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

  1. a hole
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

hull

  1. imperative of hulle

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=hull&oldid=51443207"