HULL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hull mean? 

• HULL (noun)
  The noun HULL has 6 senses:

1. dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut

2. persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry

3. United States naval officer who commanded the 'Constitution' during the War of 1812 and won a series of brilliant victories against the British (1773-1843)

4. United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955)

5. a large fishing port in northeastern England

6. the frame or body of ship

  Familiarity information: HULL used as a noun is common.

• HULL (verb)
  The verb HULL has 1 sense:

1. remove the hulls from

  Familiarity information: HULL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HULL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hull" is a kind of...):

husk (outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hull"):

shell (the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts)

Derivation:

hull (remove the hulls from)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hull" is a kind of...):

calyx ((botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States naval officer who commanded the 'Constitution' during the War of 1812 and won a series of brilliant victories against the British (1773-1843)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hull; Isaac Hull

Instance hypernyms:

naval officer (an officer in the navy)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cordell Hull; Hull

Instance hypernyms:

diplomat; diplomatist (an official engaged in international negotiations)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A large fishing port in northeastern England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Hull; Kingston-upon Hull

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Meronyms (parts of "Hull"):

Humber Bridge (a suspension bridge at Hull, England; 4,626 feet long)

Holonyms ("Hull" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The frame or body of ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hull" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Meronyms (parts of "hull"):

keel (one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability)

keelson (a longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it)

rib (support resembling the rib of an animal)

rider plate (a horizontal beam (or plate) connected to the top of a ship's vertical keel or to the keelson)

Holonyms ("hull" is a part of...):

vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)

• HULL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hull    ... he / she / it hulls   
Past simple: hulled   
Past participle: hulled   
-ing form: hulling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the hulls from

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

hull the berries

Hypernyms (to "hull" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

hull (dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut)

 Context examples 

You doen't ought—a married man like you—or what's as good—to take and hull away a day's work.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were in the middle of nowhere and it looked like someone had been in there with a lawn mower, Hull said.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

All round the hull, in the blackness, the rippling current bubbled and chattered like a little mountain stream.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Her hull should be worth another thousand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before the sea, than trying or hulling.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Increased copper in the water can be a result of agricultural runoff or marine paint leaching from boat hulls.

(Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper, National Science Foundation)

They were of the same schooner-rig as the Ghost, though the hull itself, I could see, was smaller.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Here came the merchandise of all the fair countries which are watered by the Garonne and the Dordogne—the cloths of the south, the skins of Guienne, the wines of the Medoc—to be borne away to Hull, Exeter, Dartmouth, Bristol or Chester, in exchange for the wools and woolfels of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a nice question, for the Cape de Verds were about five hundred miles to the north of us, and the African coast about seven hundred to the east. On the whole, as the wind was coming round to the north, we thought that Sierra Leone might be best, and turned our head in that direction, the barque being at that time nearly hull down on our starboard quarter.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)