Crust vs Hull - What's the difference?
crust | hull |
A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
The external layer of most types of bread.
An outer layer composed of pastry
* Dryden
* Macaulay
The bread-like base of a pizza.
(geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
(uncountable) Nerve, gall.
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crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)
To cover with a crust.
* Boyle
* Felton
To form a crust.
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 verbs the difference between crust and hull
is that crust is to cover with a crust while hull is .As a noun crust
is a more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.crust
English
(wikipedia crust)Noun
- Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
- They made the crust for the venison pasty.
- You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.
Verb
(en verb)- The whole body is crusted over with ice.
- Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.
Anagrams
*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.