Dictionary Definition
hull
Noun
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) [syn: Isaac
Hull]
4 United States diplomat who did the groundwork
for creating the United Nations (1871-1955) [syn: Cordell
Hull]
5 a large fishing port in northeastern England
[syn: Kingston-upon
Hull]
6 the frame or body of ship v : remove the hulls
from; "hull the berries"
User Contributed Dictionary
see Hull
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌl
Noun
Translations
of boats
Verb
- To remove the outer
covering of a fruit or vegetable.
- She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
Estonian
Adjective
hullHungarian
Verb
hull, hullani- to fall
Norwegian
Noun
- a hole
Extensive Definition
Hull may refer to:
- Kingston upon Hull ( almost invariably abbreviated to Hull), a city in England named after the River Hull (Kings town upon Hull, prior to 1299 it was known as Wyke upon Hull)
- Husk or hull, the outer covering of a fruit or vegetable
- Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
- The main body of an armored tank
- in economics, the Hull-White model of interest rates
In mathematics
- the affine hull in affine geometry
- the convex hull in geometry
- Carathéodory's theorem (convex hull)
- the holomorphically convex hull in complex analysis
- the injective hull of a module
- the Skolem hull of mathematical logic
Associated with Kingston upon Hull
- River Hull, for which Kingston upon Hull is named
- Hull City A.F.C., an English football team
- Hull F.C., rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the West of the city
- Hull Kingston Rovers (Hull KR), rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the East of the city
- The University of Hull, a university in England
Places
*Hull, Quebec, a former city in Québec (now part of the city of Gatineau)- Hull (provincial electoral district), provincial electoral district in Quebec
- Hull—Aylmer, a Canadian federal electoral district*Îles Maria, an island in the Austral Islands, formerly called Hull Island*Orona, an island that was formerly called Hull Island*Hull, Georgia
- Hull, Illinois
- Hull, Iowa
- Hull, Massachusetts
- Hull, West Virginia
- Hull, Marathon County, Wisconsin
- Hull, Portage County, Wisconsin
- Hull,Texas
People
- Blair Hull, an American businessman and politician
- Bobby Hull, a former Canadian ice hockey player
- Brett Hull, a former Canadian ice hockey player, and son of Bobby Hull
- Chuck Hull, inventor of stereolithography
- Clark L. Hull, an American psychologist
- Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State from 1933-1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945
- Isaac Hull, early United States Naval officer, Captain of the USS Constitution during the battle with HMS Guerriere
- John Hull, a Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the University of Toronto
- Merlin Hull, U.S. Congressman
- Rae Hull, Canadian journalist
- Rod Hull (1935-1999), English entertainer.
- Tom Hull, mathematical origamist
- Warren Hull (1903-1974), film actor and TV personality
- William Hull, an American general during the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812
Other uses
- Hull House, settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, USA
- USS Hull, any of four U.S. Navy ships
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
argosy,
bark, boat, body, boll, bottom, bran, bucket, burr, capsule, case, chaff, cod, corn shuck, cornhusk, craft, follicle, frame, framework, hooker, hulk, husk, jacket, keel, legume, legumen, leviathan, packet, palea, pease cod, peel, pericarp, pod, rind, seed pod, seed vessel,
seedbox, seedcase, shell, ship, shuck, silique, skeleton, skin, slough, structure, tub, vessel, watercraft