Hull vs Bulkhead - What's the difference?
hull | bulkhead |
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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(nautical) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.
A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft.
Mechanically, a partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.
A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure.
A retaining wall along a waterfront.
As nouns the difference between hull and bulkhead
is that hull is the outer covering of a fruit or seed while bulkhead is a vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.As a verb hull
is to remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.As a proper noun Hull
is any of various cities in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States (see the Wikipedia article).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.