hull

The main body of a ship, boat, or aircraft.

• The boat has a wooden hull.
• Water entered through a hole in the hull.
• Workers painted the ship's hull blue.

Similar words: fuselage

Common phrases: ship hull, boat hull, steel hull, damaged hull

The outer covering of a fruit, vegetable, or seed.

• Remove the hull before eating the seed.
• Rice hulls covered the floor.
• The hard hull protects the nut inside.

Similar words: husk, shell

Common phrases: rice hull, seed hull, outer hull

The smallest group of points that includes all given points and follows a particular mathematical rule.

• The program draws a convex hull.
• This hull contains every point in the set.
• We computed the hull of the polygon's vertices.

Similar words: span

Common phrases: convex hull, affine hull, compute the hull

To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.

• Hull the strawberries before serving them.
• She hulled the nuts by hand.
• This machine hulls rice quickly.

Similar words: shell, husk

Common phrases: hull strawberries, hull rice, hull the seeds