different between hull vs shipworm

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English hul, hulle, holle (“seed covering, hull of a ship”), from Old English hulu (“seed covering”), from Proto-Germanic *hul- (compare Dutch hul (“hood”),German Hülle, Hülse (“cover, veil”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *?el- (“to cover, hide”); or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kal- (“hard”) (compare Old Irish calad, calath (“hard”), Latin callus, callum (“rough skin”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (kaliti, “to cool, harden”)). For the sense development, compare French coque (“nutshell; ship's hull”), Ancient Greek ??????? (phás?los, “bean pod; yacht”).

Noun

hull (plural hulls)

1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
2. Any covering.

Synonyms

• (outer covering of fruit or seed): peel, husk, shell

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hull (third-person singular simple present hulls, present participle hulling, simple past and past participle hulled)

1. To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.

   She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.

Synonyms

• (to remove hull of a fruit or seed): peel, husk, shell, shuck

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English holle, hoole (“hull, hold of a ship, ship”), of uncertain origin. Possibly a variant and special use of Etymology 1 above, conformed to hull. Alternatively, a variant of Middle English hole, hoole, holle (“hiding place, lair, den, shelter, compartment”, literally “hole, hollow”), related to Middle Dutch and Dutch hol (“hole, ship's cargo hold”). More at hole.

Noun

hull (plural hulls)

2. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
   • 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, Quatrain 60, 1808, The Works of John Dryden, Volume 9, page 115,

     Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light, / And through the yielding planks a passage find.

3. (mathematics, geometry, of a set A) The 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.

   holomorphically convex hull; affine hull; injective hull

Synonyms

• (frame of a vessel): fuselage (of a winged aircraft)
• (smallest set containing a given set of points): span

Derived terms

• affine hull
• convex hull
• invective hull

Translations

Verb

hull (third-person singular simple present hulls, present participle hulling, simple past and past participle hulled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
   • c. 1612, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 4,^[1]

     […] Thus hulling in

     The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer

     Toward this remedy, whereupon we are

     Now present here together:

   • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 8,^[2]

     In this virtuous voyage of life hull not about like the ark, without the use of rudder, mast, or sail, and bound for no port.

2. (transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
   • 1774, George Shelvocke, The Voyage of Captain Shelvock Round the World in David Henry (ed.), An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators, London: F. Newbery, Volume 2, p. 163,^[3]

     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 […]

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hullu. Cognate to Finnish hullu and Livonian ull.

Adjective

hull (genitive hullu, partitive hullu)

1. crazy, mad

Declension

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• hullik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hul?]
• Rhymes: -ul?

Verb

hull

1. (intransitive) to fall

2. (intransitive, of tears) to flow
3. (intransitive, of hair) to fall out
4. (intransitive) to die (in large quantities)

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Further reading

• hull in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hól

Alternative forms

• hol

Noun

hull n (definite singular hullet, indefinite plural hull or huller, definite plural hulla or hullene)

1. a hole

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

hull

1. imperative of hulle

See also

• hòl (Nynorsk)

References

• “hull” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Etymology

ship +? worm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???pw??(?)m/

Noun

shipworm (plural shipworms)

1. Any of several wormlike marine mollusks (not true worms) of the family Teredinidae, that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material immersed in salt water.
   • 1955, Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea,

     Old spars and water-soaked timbers cast on the beach are full of the workings of the shipworm—long cylindrical tunnels penetrating all parts of the wood.

   • 2002, Erkki Leppäkoski, Stephan Gollasch, Sergej Olenin, Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe: Distribution, Impacts, and Management,

     Even though mankind has tried to develop counter measures for thousands of years, still there is no easy solution to the shipworm problem in sight.

Hyponyms

• (molluscs in Teredinidae): Kuphus polythalamia (giant tube worm)

Translations

Further reading

• Shipworms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Teredinidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Teredinidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “shipworm”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.