London vs Hull - What's the difference?
london | hull |
The capital city of the United Kingdom and of England, situated near the mouth of the River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 12,000,000.
A city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of approximately 300,000.
A city in Ohio, USA, with a population of approximately 9,000.
A city in Kentucky, USA, with a population of approximately 8,000.
A city in Arkansas, USA, with a population of approximately 900.
A city in California, USA, with a population of approximately 1,800.
A community in Texas, USA, with a population of approximately 180.
A community in West Virginia, USA.
A settlement in Kiribati, on Easter Island.
for someone from London.
(rare) transferred from the place name.
* 2012 (Louise Erdrich), The Round House , Corsair (2013), ISBN 9781472108166, page 178:
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 a proper noun london
is the capital city of the united kingdom and of england, situated near the mouth of the river thames in southeast england, with a metropolitan population of more than 12,000,000.As a verb hull is
.london
English
(wikipedia)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Sonja made me promise I would go to college. She said she'd wanted her daughter, Murphy, to go. She'd named her baby Murphy because it could never be a stripper name. But her daughter had changed her name to London .
Derived terms
* City of London * Greater London * London broil * Londoner * Londonish * Londonism * Londonistan * Londonize * London Bridge * London moment * London paste * London plane * Londonphile * London pride * London rocket * London Underground * London weighting * Multicultural London English * New London * Tower of LondonSee also
* the City * CockneyStatistics
*Anagrams
*References
* 2003, A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198527586 English surnames ----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.