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HULL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large fishing port in northeastern England

Synonyms:

Hull; Kingston-upon Hull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Cordell Hull; Hull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

diplomat; diplomatist (an official engaged in international negotiations)

Sense 4

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)

Synonyms:

Hull; Isaac Hull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

naval officer (an officer in the navy)

Sense 5

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 6

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the hulls from

Example:

hull the berries

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

There, on the beach, not fifty feet away, bow on, dismasted, was a black-hulled vessel.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Alarmed by the increasing devastation, Hull learned that keeping a horse in this region serves a similar function as maintaining a bank account.

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

Then they knocked off some of the boards for the use of the ship, and when they had got all they had a mind for, let the hull drop into the sea, which by reason of many breaches made in the bottom and sides, sunk to rights.

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

First she loomed before me like a blot of something yet blacker than darkness, then her spars and hull began to take shape, and the next moment, as it seemed (for, the farther I went, the brisker grew the current of the ebb), I was alongside of her hawser and had laid hold.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then, as a second lieutenant, he was in one of those grim three-deckers with powder-blackened hulls and crimson scupper-holes, their spare cables tied round their keels and over their bulwarks to hold them together, which carried the news into the Bay of Naples.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under the approaching smoke the hull and upper-works of a steamer were growing larger.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To understand the scope of the problem, Hull and her colleagues put the same type of GPS collars they were using to track pandas on one horse in each of four herds they studied.

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

Her low hull lifted and rolled to windward on a sea; her canvas loomed darkly in the night; her lashed wheel creaked as the rudder kicked; then sight and sound of her faded away, and we were alone on the dark sea.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Vanessa Hull, a doctoral student at MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), has been living off and on for seven years in the Wolong Nature Reserve, most recently tracking pandas that she has outfitted with GPS collars.

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