dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/hul_MW.json
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{
"Hulse":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
"Russell Alan 1950\u2013 American physicist":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259ls"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013035",
"type":[
"biographical name"
]
},
"hulk":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a heavy clumsy ship":[],
": a ship used as a prison":[
"\u2014 usually used in plural every prisoner sent to the hulks \u2014 Kenneth Roberts"
],
": an abandoned wreck or shell (as of a building or automobile)":[],
": one that is bulky or unwieldy":[],
": the body of an old ship unfit for service":[],
": to appear impressively large or massive : loom":[
"factories hulked along the river"
],
": to move ponderously":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"The ship's rusting hulk is still visible on the rocks.",
"the burned out hulk of the factory",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The hulk traveled from Washington state to Texas around the tip of South America. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 6 June 2022",
"In the Black Sea, trading an old workboat or other hulk for even a mere mission-kill on a Russian combatant is eminently worthwhile. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"For years, architect-developer Bruce Redman Becker drove past the former Pirelli Tire Building looming over Interstates 91 and 95 in New Haven, wondering why the concrete hulk designed by modernist architect Marcel Breuer was empty. \u2014 Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The most conspicuous monument to the fighting is the smashed hulk of an Antonov An-225. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Apr. 2022",
"No one wanted to take on this crumbling hulk looming on the outskirts of the city. Until Lynn Saunders. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Mar. 2022",
"To see this rusting hulk , start at Lunada Bay and walk north to Palos Verdes Point which is just under a half mile away. \u2014 Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Several plans to remake the rusting hulk as a hive of restaurants, shops, apartments and offices \u2014 a humbler version of the Pearl \u2014 went nowhere. \u2014 Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News , 10 Mar. 2022",
"But the biggest of the three properties held the rusting hulk of National Welding\u2019s metal-fabricating plant, vacant since 1994, while the two others were vacant fields. \u2014 Don Stacom, courant.com , 5 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In the city of Midgar, Cloud, an ex-military mercenary with one hulking sword, is enlisted by eco-terrorist group Avalanche to take down a Shinra reactor, setting him on a path to reunite with Sephiroth, a figure from his past thought to be dead. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 23 Apr. 2020",
"Giving the lie to the notion that indoor grills just don't match up to their large, hulking outdoor counterparts, the Breville Smart Grill is a powerhouse. \u2014 Popular Science , 10 Apr. 2020",
"The idea is that in a war with China, America\u2019s hulking aircraft carriers might be pushed far out to sea by the threat of missiles. \u2014 The Economist , 31 Mar. 2020",
"So, instead of having one giant, hulking cabinet containing both, Stoffer designed two elegant, slender columns across the room from each other to house the family's GE Monogram fridge and freezer. \u2014 Hadley Keller, House Beautiful , 18 Mar. 2020",
"The plan was to stay one night at a pretty country-estate hotel surrounded by seemingly endless fields of tall grass and hulking majestic trees that looked more like hyperrealistic drawings. \u2014 Candice Rainey, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 15 Jan. 2020",
"At Crunch on West 23rd Street, there were hulking men spotted through the windows. \u2014 Jacob Bernstein, New York Times , 17 Mar. 2020",
"The upcoming GMC Hummer pickup hulked in one corner of the dome and the Cadillac Lyriq, a futuristic SUV, shown across the aisle. \u2014 Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press , 4 Mar. 2020",
"Offensive lineman Justin Stevens \u2014 a freshman early enrollee from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia \u2014 posted a video to Twitter of himself lifting four massive tires with his hulking 6-foot-5, 292-pound frame. \u2014 Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press , 30 Mar. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"circa 1825, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hulke , from Old English hulc , probably from Medieval Latin holcas , from Greek holkas , from helkein to pull \u2014 more at sulcus":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259lk"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"clod",
"clodhopper",
"gawk",
"lout",
"lubber",
"lug",
"lump",
"Neanderthal",
"oaf",
"palooka"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031253",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hulking":{
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"dinky",
"dwarf",
"dwarfish",
"little",
"puny",
"shrimpy",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"definitions":{
": ponderous , massive":[
"a hulking wrestler"
]
},
"examples":[
"A hulking figure appeared in the doorway.",
"a heavy, hulking stone blocked the way",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Russian military estimated that about 2,500 Ukrainian fighters holding out at a hulking steel plant with a warren of underground passageways provided the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol. \u2014 Adam Schreck And Mstyslav Chernov, chicagotribune.com , 17 Apr. 2022",
"This massive boot is as hulking as a John Deere excavator on creatine. \u2014 Jacob Gallagher, WSJ , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The search was on for a hulking fugitive, a jailer and their orange car. \u2014 CBS News , 12 May 2022",
"Still, Jarvis\u2019 tectonic performance remains fascinating, with the actor\u2019s singular mixture of imposing physical presence and wounded reticence suiting the enigmatic vibe while giving it an edge of threateningly broken, hulking masculinity. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Later, Pellegrin and the reporter Scott Anderson, a longtime collaborator of his, spent several days in Siberia with two hulking Russian brothers, neither of whom spoke English. \u2014 Ben Taub, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"The Brillante Virtuoso was a hulking behemoth of an oil tanker, three football fields long with 12 tanks and a carrying capacity of 150,000 tons. \u2014 Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ , 15 May 2022",
"The search was on for a hulking fugitive, a jailer and their orange car. \u2014 CBS News , 12 May 2022",
"The search was on for a hulking fugitive, a jailer and their orange car. \u2014 Michael Balsamo, Anchorage Daily News , 11 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1698, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259l-ki\u014b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"boxcar",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"husky",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033435",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hulky":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": hulking":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"hulk entry 1 + -y":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259lk\u0113",
"-ki"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104850",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"hull":{
"antonyms":[
"bark",
"flay",
"husk",
"peel",
"shell",
"shuck",
"skin"
],
"definitions":{
": covering , casing":[],
": the frame or body of a ship or boat exclusive of masts, yards, sails, and rigging":[],
": the main body of a usually large or heavy craft or vehicle (such as an airship or tank)":[],
": the outer covering of a fruit or seed":[],
": the persistent calyx or involucre that subtends some fruits (such as a strawberry)":[],
": to remove the hulls of : shuck":[],
"Bobby 1939\u2013 Robert Marvin Hull Canadian ice hockey player":[],
"Cordell 1871\u20131955 American statesman; U.S. Secretary of State (1933\u201344)":[],
"Isaac 1773\u20131843 American naval officer":[],
"William 1753\u20131825 American general":[],
"city and port on the Humber River in eastern England population 242,200":[],
"former town in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Ottawa River":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the coffin was placed in a cement hull",
"Verb",
"hull the pinto beans before adding them",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"These included hull planks, ceramic jars, bronze and silver coins, jewelry, and more marble and bronze statues. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 23 June 2022",
"Silversea\u2019s new Silver Nova, however, is an industry pioneer: a standard luxury ship that has been built from the hull up with sustainability in mind. \u2014 Mark Ellwood, Town & Country , 17 June 2022",
"The ship blazes red above water before the virtual camera plunges below the surface to reveal the hull torn in two. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"With little reserve likely left for platform growth, an overweight Offshore Patrol Cutter may exhibit faster-than expected hull fatigue, or even, potentially, disappoint at sea. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The Orcas lack a sail, giving them more of a torpedo-like appearance, but can raise a sensor and communications mast from a position flush with the hull . \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 2 June 2022",
"Then, four men climbed onto the hull to sit and smoke. \u2014 Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
"Most blow-up kayaks employ this tech only in the base; Decathlon uses it throughout the entire hull . \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"Under the glare of his copter\u2019s searchlight, the pilot could see the sub\u2019s hull was awash as the crew clung to the steel safety cable. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Then, hull the strawberries and slice them in half. \u2014 Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes , 20 May 2021",
"Captain Carlson attributed the Zumwalt\u2019s stability to hull form, relative location of the rudder stops, and the size of the propellers. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 25 Jan. 2020",
"La Lupita uses Mazahua corn, grown more than 8,200 feet above sea level, and nixtamalizes (a process where the corn is soaked, cooked, washed, and hulled ) and grinds it in-house, then slaps it into sizzling warm tortillas. \u2014 Jen Murphy, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 27 Feb. 2020",
"On June 28, 1919, the first concrete- hulled ship built in Mobile, the USS Selma, was launched and prepared to aid Allied forces. \u2014 Kelly Kazek | Kkazek@al.com, al , 20 Feb. 2020",
"Not all mixes are equal; striped sunflower, for example, is not favored by as many bird species as black-oil sunflower or hulled or chipped sunflowers, according to a three-year study, Project Wildbird. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Oct. 2019",
"Sarter was the operator of a 21-foot Monark aluminum- hulled boat that capsized about 11 a.m. after the engine became waterlogged, according to the sheriff\u2019s office report. \u2014 Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities , 30 Sep. 2019",
"In the United States, many seeds that don\u2019t need hulling are harvested from two pumpkin varieties: oilseed and snow whites. \u2014 Florence Fabricant, New York Times , 14 Oct. 2019",
"This makes minesweepers, wooden or fiberglass- hulled ships specifically designed to hunt down and dispose of minesweepers, vital in a conflict. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 6 Aug. 2019"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English holle, hulle, going back to Old English hulu, apparently going back to a by-form (without umlaut) of Germanic *hulj\u014d (whence Old High German hulla \"outer garment,\" Middle High German h\u00fclle ), nominal derivative from *hulj-a- \"to cover\" (whence Old Saxon bi hullean \"to veil, conceal,\" Old High German hullan \"to cover,\" Old Norse hylja \"to hide, cover,\" Gothic huljan \"to cover, veil\"), going back to Indo-European *\u1e31l\u0325-i\u032fe-, present stem formed from the verbal base *\u1e31el- \"cover, conceal\" \u2014 more at conceal":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"armor",
"capsule",
"case",
"casing",
"cocoon",
"cover",
"covering",
"encasement",
"housing",
"husk",
"jacket",
"pod",
"sheath",
"shell"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003234",
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name",
"geographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"hullabaloo":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a loud, continued noise or mixture of noises : din":[
"Why do roosters crow",
"\u2014 Discover",
"Somebody heard the splash and they raised an awful hullabaloo . 'He's gone! Lower the boats! \u2026'",
"\u2014 Joseph Conrad",
"\u2026 Hunt and her pack of highly trained dogs set off a hellacious hullabaloo , yelling and barking, discharging firecrackers \u2026",
"\u2014 Christine Paige"
],
": a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance : uproar , fuss":[
"Would there be such a hullabaloo about the violence in her books if they had been written by a man",
"\u2014 Laura Z. Hobson",
"Sunday was a big day for the Philadelphia Phillies mascot \u2026 . It was his 40th birthday, and there was a big hullabaloo .",
"\u2014 Liz Roscher",
"There's been a lot of hullabaloo recently about the effects that grapefruit can have on certain meds.",
"\u2014 Chanie Kirschner",
"When I heard the series would finally be available to stream on Hulu, I decided to finally see what all the hullabaloo was about.",
"\u2014 Josh Sorokach"
]
},
"examples":[
"The announcement caused quite a hullabaloo .",
"The announcement caused a lot of hullabaloo .",
"There was a hullabaloo over his controversial statements.",
"There was a lot of hullabaloo over his controversial statements.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That all the rest\u2014this Finders Keepers hullabaloo and questions like mine\u2014is just a nuisance. \u2014 Chris Heath, The Atlantic , 17 June 2022",
"Maybe the hullabaloo about being a digital native or an AI native is merely eye candy and nothing more. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"The hullabaloo was apparently an attempt to draw attention to the climate crisis. \u2014 Jeva Lange, The Week , 30 May 2022",
"The viewer\u2019s eye dwells there rather than on the surrealist hullabaloo in the picture\u2019s foreground, where a transparent plastic umbrella, upside down and full of rubber duckies, covers Susiraja\u2019s crotch. \u2014 Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker , 22 May 2022",
"On court grounds, there are benches and flower gardens and places to linger quietly, away from the hullabaloo . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022",
"This number may strike you as lower than the media hullabaloo suggests. \u2014 Forrester, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"School officials said the hullabaloo on the field was reason enough to shut down the prayers as a public safety matter. \u2014 John Fritze, USA TODAY , 25 Apr. 2022",
"We were treated to another update in the never-ending hullabaloo that is Mad Cow Theatre. \u2014 orlandosentinel.com , 8 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1762, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps from hallo + Scots balloo , interjection used to hush children":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259-l\u0259-b\u0259-\u02ccl\u00fc"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"ado",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoo",
"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180454",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hullock":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a small piece of sail kept standing to hold a ship's head to the wind in a storm":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125017",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hulloo":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of hulloo variant of hallo"
],
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)h\u0259\u02c8l\u00fc",
"\u02c8h\u0259(\u02cc)l\u00fc",
"\u02c8h\u0259\u02c8l\u00fc"
],
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-112021",
"type":[]
},
"hulock":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": hoolock":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"hulock from native name in Assam or Burma":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u00fc-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170937",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hulsite":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a mineral (Fe,Ca,Mg) 4 (Fe,Sn) 2 B 2 O 10 (":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Alfred Hulse Brooks \u20201924 American scientist + English -ite":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259l(t)\u02ccs\u012bt"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080441",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hulver":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": holly":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English hulver, holver , from Old Norse hulfr":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259lv\u0259(r)"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044725",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"hulled barley":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": barley in which the husks adhere to the kernel":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-221049"
}
}