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"HULLS" is a plural of: hull. |
Date "HULLS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | Small lengths of fuel pin cladding left after dissolution of the fuel. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HULLS |
| English words defined with "HULLS": bilges ♦ catamaran ♦ Floating battery, furfural, furfuraldehyde ♦ hull, Hulled, Hulled corn, Huller, Hully ♦ trimaran, Twin boat, Twin ship. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HULLS": ALMOND HULLER, assembly detailer ♦ boat bottomer, BOAT BUFFER, PLASTIC, BOAT PATCHER, PLASTIC, boat puller, BUYER, GRAIN ♦ cereal miller, CORN GRINDER, CUTTER, ALUMINUM SHEET ♦ FIBERGLASS-MACHINE OPERATOR, FLAKE MILLER, WHEAT AND OATS ♦ grain-elevator agent, Guanidines ♦ HULL AND DECK REMOVER, HULL INSPECTOR, HULLER OPERATOR ♦ LOFT WORKER ♦ manager, grain elevator, MARINE-SERVICES TECHNICIAN, mold loft worker ♦ Organotins, OVERLAY PLASTICIAN ♦ patcher, plastic boat, PREFORM PLATE MAKER. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Hulls Gulch Bike abuseBoise FrontFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown. | ![]() | Destroyer hulls on the building ways, 1 October 1917. Those closest to the camera are the future USS Colhoun (DD-85) and Stevens (DD-86), which had builder's numbers 280 and 281. The ships on the left are probably the future USS Sigourney (DD-81) and Gregory (DD-82). Credit: NAVY. | |
![]() | Mineman Second Class Franklin Marshall, a Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team member, conducts a search for mines, especially those attached to ship's hulls, circa April 1966. The E.O.D. Team is responsible for harbor security. Several merchant ships are in the distance. Photographed by Ernie Filtz. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Interior of the wet slips, with the incomplete USS Putnam (Destroyer # 287, builder's Hull # 367) visible just behind the structural framework at left. Note barrels and other components for 4"/50 guns, in the left foreground, and railroad tank cars. Some of the material present is marked for Hulls 369 and 370 (respectively USS Flusser, Destroyer # 289, and USS Dale, Destroyer # 290). Photograph is dated 18 November 1919. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Cotton seed hulls, Waco, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Cotton gin yard with cow eating cotton seed hulls. West, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Business | In addition, most of the outer hulls of ships as well as some of the diesel engines are produced in China with Chinese technology. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HULLS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.57% of the time. "HULLS" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 98.57% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.43% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "HULLS": multi-hulls. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HULLS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | sammenpressede indkapslingsskaller (compacted cladding hulls), maskine til fjernelse af det bloede eller trevlede frugtkoed (almonds, etc, machine for removinq fleshy or fibrous hulls of nuts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | samengeperste spijtstofhulzen (compacted cladding hulls). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | machine retirer les enveloppes charnues ou fibreuses des noix (machine for removinq fleshy or fibrous hulls of nuts), etc (machine for removinq fleshy or fibrous hulls of nuts), coques de dégainage comprimées (compacted cladding hulls), amandes (machine for removinq fleshy or fibrous hulls of nuts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Schiffsrümpfe, schält (pares, peels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπιεσμένα τεμάχια από το κέλυφος του περιβλήματος (compacted cladding hulls), αποφλοιωτική μηχανή καρυδιών,αμυγδάλων κ.τ.λ (almonds, etc, machine for removinq fleshy or fibrous hulls of nuts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | Piccole frazioni della camicia del combustibile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 菜種殻 (rapeseed hulls). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | なたねがら (rapeseed hulls). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ullshay pequenos fragmentos residuais das baínhas do combustível. (various references) cascos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "HULLS": monohulls, multihulls. (additional references) | |
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"HULLS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ghylls, hillls, hols, holz, Houilles, Huillca, hul, hulis, hulla, Hullasey, hulle, Hulli, hullu, Hulusi, julls, uhl, Xhulali, yulls. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HULLS" (pronounced hu"lz) |
| 3 | -u" l z | gulls, lulls, mulls, skulls. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-l-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: hull, lush, shul. | |
-3 letters: sh, uh, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-l-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: hullos, lushly. | |
+2 letters: bullish, dullish, hullers, hulloas, hulloes, mullahs, nullahs, phallus, plushly, thallus, unshell, uphills. | |
+3 letters: blushful, bullrush, bullshit, bullshot, chillums, halluces, mulishly, nutshell, plushily, pushball, shelfful, slothful, slushily, subshell, thallous, unshells. | |
+4 letters: bashfully, bullheads, bullhorns, bullishly, bullshits, bullshots, bullwhips, bushelled, clubhauls, cultishly, dollhouse, dullishly, dunghills, flashbulb, flushable, haustella, houselled, keelhauls, loutishly, lumpishly, monohulls, mullahism, nutshells, phalluses, pushballs, shelffuls, shovelful, slouchily, sublethal, subshells, thalliums, thalluses, tollhouse, turnhalls, unhallows, unshelled, wishfully. | |
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