hull

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You do know brown rice still has the outer hull removed?

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Quick take

dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut

Meaning at a glance

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noun

dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut

noun

persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry

noun

United States naval officer who commanded the `Constitution' during the War of 1812 and won a series of brilliant victories against the British (1773-1843)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hull.

noun

dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut

noun

persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry

noun

United States naval officer who commanded the `Constitution' during the War of 1812 and won a series of brilliant victories against the British (1773-1843)

noun

United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955)

noun

a large fishing port in northeastern England

noun

the frame or body of ship

verb

remove the hulls from; "hull the berries"

Example sentences

You do know brown rice still has the outer hull removed?

Just use a vacuum inside your superstrong hull!

This is why you can stop a ship hull rusting by simply bolting a block of zinc to it.

There are much, much better ways of doing that than a surface ship that makes creaks, engine noises, crew sounds, waves hitting the hull, etc.

Need to hire a yacht designer to get the engines, hull shape, hull construction, safety, other engineering details right and supervise the construction including selecting the people for the interior design and finishing the interior.

If the reaction somehow "runs away", which it \n absolutely can't, then it brushes the walls of the vacuum \n chamber, poisoning it with cold metal ions, like injecting \n lead shavings that have been chilled to absolute zero \n directly into your heart.\n\n If our magical "runaway reaction" somehow overcomes this, \n and melts a hole in the vacuum chamber, then the atmosphere \n rushes in, both freezing cold and at intolerably high \n pressure, like the North Sea flooding into the hull of a \n submarine resting on the ocean floor.\n\n Fusion reactors don't melt down, or explode.