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# hull

«hull» in Mova's school dictionary: **the main body of a ship or boat, the part that sits in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a hull, hulls); verb (hull, hulls, hulled, hulling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The hull is the main body of a ship or boat, the part that sits in the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hull/#m1)

2) A hull is the outer covering of some seeds, nuts or fruits, like the green leafy top of a strawberry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hull/#m2)

3) To hull is to remove the hull, such as taking the green top off strawberries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hull/#m3)

4) Hull is also the name of a city in England. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hull/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about floating, a boat's hull pushes water aside and its shape helps it float. In cooking, you hull strawberries before eating. In stories about ships, a hole in the hull lets water in. Phrases: the hull of a ship, a wooden hull, hull the strawberries.

### examples

- The hull of the ship was painted red below the waterline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hull/#x1)
- Water poured through a hole in the hull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hull/#x2)
- Help me hull the strawberries for the fruit salad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hull/#x3)
- Rice grains have a hard hull that is removed before cooking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hull/#x4)
- We built boats with different hull shapes and tested which held most coins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hull/#x5)
- Barnacles grew on the old boat's hull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hull/#x6)

### note

Countable noun: hulls. Regular verb: hulled, hulling. As a city name it has a capital H: Hull. Do not confuse with «hole» or «hill».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hull» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hull/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.