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hullnoun詞源 1/hʌl/

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  The outer covering of a fruit or seed.

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  Any covering.

hullverb詞源 1/hʌl/

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  To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.

  • She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.

hullnoun詞源 2/hʌl/

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  aeronauticsaerospaceaviationThe body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.

  • VVhen you haue berthed or brought her [the ship] vp to the planks, vvhich are thoſe thicke timbers vvhich goeth fore and aft on each ſide, vvhereon doth lie the beames of the firſt Orlop, vvhich is the firſt floore to ſupport the plankes doth couer the Hovvle, thoſe are great croſſe timbers, that keepes the ſhip ſides aſunder, the maine beame is euer next the maine maſt, […]
  • Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light, / And through the yielding planks a passage find.
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  geometrymathematicssciencesThe 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

hullverb詞源 2/hʌl/

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  obsoletenauticaltransportTo drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.

  • We goe not, but we are carried: as things that flote, now gliding gently, now hulling violently, according as the water is, either stormy or calme.
  • […] Thus hulling in The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer Toward this remedy, whereupon we are Now present here together:
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  To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.

  • 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 […]