Hulk vs Hull - What's the difference?
hulk | hull |
a non-functional, but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation.
(archaic) any large ship that is difficult to maneuver
A big (and possibly clumsy) person
(bodybuilding): An excessively muscled person
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
The body or frame of a vessel such as a ship or plane
* Dryden
(obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled
*, II.1:
*: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.
To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
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As nouns the difference between hulk and hull
is that hulk is a non-functional, but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation while hull is the outer covering of a fruit or seed.As verbs the difference between hulk and hull
is that hulk is to remove the entrails of; to disembowel while hull is to remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.As proper nouns the difference between hulk and hull
is that hulk is a fictional comic-book character who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry while Hull is any of various cities in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States (see the Wikipedia article).hulk
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Quotations
;large ship, difficult to maneuver * 1602 , Shakespeare, , act ii, scene 3 *: Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. ;non-functioning, floating ship * 1918 , , Prelude'', as printed in ''Selected Stories , Oxford World's Classics (2002), paperback, page 83 *: They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks .Etymology 2
Compare Middle Low German holken to hollow out, and similar Swedish word.External links
* (hulk) ----hull
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Synonyms
* (outer covering of fruit or seed ): husk, shellDerived terms
* ahull * monohull * multihull * twinhull * tank hull * hull-downVerb
(en verb)- She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
Synonyms
* (to remove hull of a fruit or seed ): peel, husk, shell, shuckEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light.
