Hull
noun
The main body of a ship or other vessel, including the bottom, sides, and deck.
The ship's hull was made of strong steel to withstand the waves.
Often appears as...
- ship hull
- boat hull
noun
The outer covering of a fruit or seed, especially the husk or shell.
I removed the hulls from the strawberries before serving them.
Often appears as...
- strawberry hull
- rice hull
verb
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
You need to hull the strawberries before you can make the jam.
Often appears as...
- hull strawberries
- hull seeds
noun
A city in northeast England, on the north bank of the Humber estuary.
I visited the beautiful city of Hull during my England trip.
Often appears as...
- hull city
- hull university
noun
The main body of a ship or other vessel, including the bottom, sides, and deck.
The ship's hull was made of strong steel to withstand the waves.
Often appears as...
- ship hull
- boat hull
noun
The outer covering of a fruit or seed, especially the husk or shell.
I removed the hulls from the strawberries before serving them.
Often appears as...
- strawberry hull
- rice hull
verb
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
You need to hull the strawberries before you can make the jam.
Often appears as...
- hull strawberries
- hull seeds
noun
A city in northeast England, on the north bank of the Humber estuary.
I visited the beautiful city of Hull during my England trip.
Often appears as...
- hull city
- hull university
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Maritime Vocabulary
Used predominantly in nautical contexts to describe the main structure of ships and boats.
The collision caused significant damage to our vessel's hull.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Relevance
Condition of the hull is crucial for a vessel's seaworthiness and safety at sea.
Regular inspections ensure the vessel's hull remains safe for voyages.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Usage
Sometimes used metaphorically to describe the main structure of things other than ships.
The team's defense is the hull that keeps them afloat.
Pro Tip 1/3Maritime Vocabulary
Used predominantly in nautical contexts to describe the main structure of ships and boats.
The collision caused significant damage to our vessel's hull.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Relevance
Condition of the hull is crucial for a vessel's seaworthiness and safety at sea.
Regular inspections ensure the vessel's hull remains safe for voyages.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Usage
Sometimes used metaphorically to describe the main structure of things other than ships.
The team's defense is the hull that keeps them afloat.
Pro Tip 1/3Maritime Vocabulary
Used predominantly in nautical contexts to describe the main structure of ships and boats.
The collision caused significant damage to our vessel's hull.
Pro Tip 2/3Safety Relevance
Condition of the hull is crucial for a vessel's seaworthiness and safety at sea.
Regular inspections ensure the vessel's hull remains safe for voyages.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Usage
Sometimes used metaphorically to describe the main structure of things other than ships.
The team's defense is the hull that keeps them afloat.
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Busted 38 Ton Engine PIPE...
here in the open ocean second of all you can't flip the thing upside down so that means divers have got to go in and do it from the bottom in order to free up the old thruster they'll have to attach cables to the top of it and drop it out the bottom of the hull then a giant crane will lift the thruster onto a waiting support vessel they'll transfer
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Eben Bayer: Are...
it's not trash. They can actually put this in their natural ecosystem without any processing, and it's going to improve the local soil. So, why mycelium? The first reason is local open feedstocks. You want to be able to do this anywhere in the world and not worry about peak rice hull or peak cottonseed hulls, because you have multiple choices.
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Dave Eggers TED Prize 4...
the space is zoned for retail you have to come up with something you've got to sell something you can't just you know have a tutoring center so we thought haha while we were renovating this place somebody said you know really kind of looks like the hull of a ship and somebody else said well you should sell
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Face-to-Face with a...
meat and it was pretty horrific there was chunk there were chunks of meat in the water she came up underneath the boat she rammed the penguin underneath the hull of the boat almost knock in the water we had to sit down she was longer than our 12 foot long Zodiac boat and that's when you Don my guide said
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Cesar Harada: A novel...
using this shape-shifting hull. And what puts us together is that we have a common, at least, global understanding of what the word "business" is, or what it should be. This is how most work today. Business as usual is saying, what's most important is to make lots of profit, and you'll be using
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The history of the world...
But when a British destroyer came to collect the prisoners, they found an unexpected survivor - a black and white cat clinging to a floating plank. For the next several months this cat hunted rats and raised British morale - until a sudden torpedo strike shattered the hull and sank the ship.
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How to write descriptivel...
and the sense of motion. It also plays with our ability to abstract and make complex associations. Look at the following sentence. "The world was ghost-quiet, except for the crack of sails and the burbling of water against hull."
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Titanic 101 PIPE National...
the hull from flooding. This caused many to believe that the ship was unsinkable. Such confidence led to the unfortunate decision to cut the number of lifeboats on board in half in order to make the deck look clean and elegant.
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Sting: How I started...
And the only life worth knowing is in the shipyard Steel in the stockyard, iron in the soul Would conjure up a ship Where there used to be a hull And we don't know what we'll do
Video examples
ONE HOUR Of Amazing...
the soft corals are one of the main reasons that all this life is attracted to the yongala almost every available space on its once smooth hull is covered with them
Video examples
Busted 38 Ton Engine PIPE...
here in the open ocean second of all you can't flip the thing upside down so that means divers have got to go in and do it from the bottom in order to free up the old thruster they'll have to attach cables to the top of it and drop it out the bottom of the hull then a giant crane will lift the thruster onto a waiting support vessel they'll transfer
Video examples
Eben Bayer: Are...
it's not trash. They can actually put this in their natural ecosystem without any processing, and it's going to improve the local soil. So, why mycelium? The first reason is local open feedstocks. You want to be able to do this anywhere in the world and not worry about peak rice hull or peak cottonseed hulls, because you have multiple choices.
Video examples
Dave Eggers TED Prize 4...
the space is zoned for retail you have to come up with something you've got to sell something you can't just you know have a tutoring center so we thought haha while we were renovating this place somebody said you know really kind of looks like the hull of a ship and somebody else said well you should sell
Video examples
Face-to-Face with a...
meat and it was pretty horrific there was chunk there were chunks of meat in the water she came up underneath the boat she rammed the penguin underneath the hull of the boat almost knock in the water we had to sit down she was longer than our 12 foot long Zodiac boat and that's when you Don my guide said
Video examples
Cesar Harada: A novel...
using this shape-shifting hull. And what puts us together is that we have a common, at least, global understanding of what the word "business" is, or what it should be. This is how most work today. Business as usual is saying, what's most important is to make lots of profit, and you'll be using
Video examples
The history of the world...
But when a British destroyer came to collect the prisoners, they found an unexpected survivor - a black and white cat clinging to a floating plank. For the next several months this cat hunted rats and raised British morale - until a sudden torpedo strike shattered the hull and sank the ship.
Video examples
How to write descriptivel...
and the sense of motion. It also plays with our ability to abstract and make complex associations. Look at the following sentence. "The world was ghost-quiet, except for the crack of sails and the burbling of water against hull."
Video examples
Titanic 101 PIPE National...
the hull from flooding. This caused many to believe that the ship was unsinkable. Such confidence led to the unfortunate decision to cut the number of lifeboats on board in half in order to make the deck look clean and elegant.
Video examples
Sting: How I started...
And the only life worth knowing is in the shipyard Steel in the stockyard, iron in the soul Would conjure up a ship Where there used to be a hull And we don't know what we'll do
Video examples
ONE HOUR Of Amazing...
the soft corals are one of the main reasons that all this life is attracted to the yongala almost every available space on its once smooth hull is covered with them
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Mary Roach
American Author
There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel.
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Charlie Pierce
American Journalist
Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it.
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Mark Kurlansky
American Journalist
Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.
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Steven Gundry
American Author
The most troublesome plant lectins are found in the hulls of grains, in beans and legumes, and the nightshade family - specifically the peels and seeds of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc.
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Tomas Transtromer
Swedish Writer
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
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Rohan Marley
American Athlete
I remember my grandmother drying wild coffee berries in the sun, then hulling and roasting them for her own cup of coffee each morning.
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Graham Hawkes
English Designer
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
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Lowell Thomas
American Journalist
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
Quote examples
Mary Roach
American Author
There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel.
Quote examples
Charlie Pierce
American Journalist
Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it.
Quote examples
Mark Kurlansky
American Journalist
Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.
Quote examples
Steven Gundry
American Author
The most troublesome plant lectins are found in the hulls of grains, in beans and legumes, and the nightshade family - specifically the peels and seeds of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc.
Quote examples
Tomas Transtromer
Swedish Writer
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
Quote examples
Rohan Marley
American Athlete
I remember my grandmother drying wild coffee berries in the sun, then hulling and roasting them for her own cup of coffee each morning.
Quote examples
Graham Hawkes
English Designer
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
Quote examples
Lowell Thomas
American Journalist
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
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