hull

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See also: Hull and hüll

English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /hʌl/
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  • 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.
  2. Any covering.
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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.
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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]

hull (plural hulls)

  2. 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.
  3. (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

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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]

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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. (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.

Conjugation[edit]

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

or

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

Derived terms[edit]

(With verbal prefixes):

Further reading[edit]

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

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse hól

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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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Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

hull

  1. imperative of hulle

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