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HULLS

"HULLS" is a plural of: hull.

Date "HULLS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)


Specialty Definition: HULLS

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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.

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Crosswords: HULLS

English words defined with "HULLS": bilgescatamaranFloating battery, furfural, furfuraldehydehull, Hulled, Hulled corn, Huller, Hullytrimaran, Twin boat, Twin ship. (references)
Specialty definitions using "HULLS": ALMOND HULLER, assembly detailerboat bottomer, BOAT BUFFER, PLASTIC, BOAT PATCHER, PLASTIC, boat puller, BUYER, GRAINcereal miller, CORN GRINDER, CUTTER, ALUMINUM SHEETFIBERGLASS-MACHINE OPERATOR, FLAKE MILLER, WHEAT AND OATSgrain-elevator agent, GuanidinesHULL AND DECK REMOVER, HULL INSPECTOR, HULLER OPERATORLOFT WORKERmanager, grain elevator, MARINE-SERVICES TECHNICIAN, mold loft workerOrganotins, OVERLAY PLASTICIANpatcher, plastic boat, PREFORM PLATE MAKER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HULLS

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Books

  • Cathodic Protection of Steel Hulls and Related Parts (3G173 Item #54208) (reference)

  • Bibliography of Soy Fiber--Okara (Soymilk Pulp), Soy Bran (Ground Hulls), and Soy Isolate Fiber: 468 References from 1716 to 1989, Partially annotate (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: HULLS

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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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Non-Fiction Usage: HULLS

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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.

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Usage Frequency: HULLS

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)98.57%6940,280
Noun (proper)1.43%1339,140
                    Total100.00%70N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: HULLS

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "HULLS": multi-hulls.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HULLS

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

   

Portuguese

  

pequenos fragmentos residuais das baínhas do combustível. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cascos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: HULLS

Derivations

Words ending with "HULLS": monohulls, multihulls. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "HULLS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "HULLS" (pronounced hu"lz)
3-u" l zgulls, lulls, mulls, skulls.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: HULLS

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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