(v. t.) The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.
(v. t.) The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
(v. t.) To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.
(v. t.) To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.
(v. i.) To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
(2) Hull have Arsenal at home next and will entertain Manchester United on the final day of the season.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Imogen and her father, John Hull, before he lost his sight.
(4) Customers won a significant victory in the battle with the banks earlier this month when a mass hearing was averted at Hull county court.
(5) The comforts of home will determine Liverpool's fate in 2014, according to Brendan Rodgers, and they made a convincing start against Hull City.
(6) The fibre of carrot and cabbage was similarly composed of nearly equal amounts of neutral and acidic polysaccharides, whereas pea-hull fibre had four times as much neutral as acidic polysaccharides.
(7) After 14 minutes, Rose got in behind the Hull defence to lay on the opening goal for Eriksen while the second followed an incision up the other flank from Walker.
(8) Hull City clambered out of the relegation zone and consigned Paul Lambert to a half-century of Premier League defeats as Aston Villa manager in the process.
(9) The Hull City manager, Steve Bruce , has admitted his side need to pull off a couple of “crazy results” if they are to preserve their Premier League status in a frantic end-of-season run-in.
(10) But no sooner had Hull hopes risen than they were dented by Meyler.
(11) The Ivory Coast international Sagbo had won the penalty from which Hull scored through Robbie Brady – a decision labelled "incredibly soft" by the Norwich manager, Chris Hughton – but minutes later was sent off after he clashed with Russell Martin.
(12) Tom Dillon, originally from Hull, runs Dillons furniture clearance shop.
(13) The empirical specifications of anxiety were chosen so as to render the study comparable to previous investigations executed within the general framework of Spence's (1956, 1958) developments of Hull's (1943) notions concerning the relationship to drive level and learning task performance.
(14) Only one child (0.06%) was found to be affected in comparison with the high prevalence of 51.5% reported by Hull et al.
(15) A modified life events inventory was presented over a four-month period to 132 consecutive women going into spontaneous labour in Hull and Manchester.
(16) It shows a picture of the damage sustained to the hull.
(17) He was leader of Hull city council for five years and served as its executive member for education.
(18) A n unemployed bricklayer sits with his Work Programme employment coach in Hull, watching as he types out a sample covering letter.
(19) Hull were not exactly unlucky, they simply did not create enough from open play to deserve anything from the game, though Brady could hardly have come any closer to scoring.
(20) A shame such a landmark achievement was soured by Allam refusing to talk to the local council over a potential stadium expansion and trying to change the club’s name to Hull Tigers, which many fans vehemently oppose.
Waist
Definition:
(n.) That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
(n.) Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship.
(n.) A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.
(n.) A girdle or belt for the waist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects with low HDLC also had higher body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio and serum total cholesterol (TC) concentration than subjects with normal HDLC.
(2) A low waist-thigh ratio was associated with a high prevalence of varicose veins in women.
(3) Under these conditions, with careful attention to sealing at ankles and waist, it was possible to estimate penetration as low as 0.3%.
(4) In two groups of postmenopausal women aged 55-69 years in the upper midwestern United States, the authors examined the reliability and accuracy of self-measurement by mail questionnaire of waist, hip, upper arm, wrist and calf girths.
(5) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(6) Moreover, they were longer (P less than 0.04); had a higher body mass index (P less than 0.04); and larger waist and hip circumferences (P less than 0.03) and buccal (P less than 0.01), subscapular (P less than 0.01), and sum of skin-fold measurements (P less than 0.03).
(7) The group whose waist ratios were larger than their obesity indices had significantly worse findings than the group whose waist ratios were not in the following medical categories: systolic blood pressure, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase levels, gamma glutamyl transpeptidase levels, uric acid levels, total bilirubin, electrocardiogram readings and optic funduscopic observation.
(8) The authors have classified the configuration of laminas in the lower lumbar spine into three different types, (WI, W2, and N), based on the two characteristic features of the lamina: 1) whether or not the inferior articular processes are wider than the waist part of the lamina, and 2) whether or not the facet joint spaces can be recognized on plain anteroposterior (AP) radiographs.
(9) Body fat distribution as measured by the ratio of waist circumference to hip circumference (WHR) is now accepted as an important risk factor for a number of diseases.
(10) For estimating regional fat distribution, either waist to hip circumference ratio or subscapular skinfold have been most useful.
(11) The alterations in triceps, waist, and total SF were related to the increase in fat weight and BF (r greater than 0.71).
(12) Body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio were positively correlated with apolipoprotein B and total cholesterol levels, and negatively correlated with apolipoprotein A1 and HDL cholesterol levels.
(13) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
(14) The etiology is believed to be that of small erosions at the waist of the hernia which bleed slowly.
(15) The simple ratio of waist girth to hip girth can be used to estimate the location of body fat.
(16) To evaluate the associations between general and abdominal obesity (as determined by total body fat, waist to hip ratio, umbilical to triceps ratio, and umbilical to subscapular ratio) with glucose, plasma lipoproteins, apolipoprotein (apo) A-I and B concentrations, and low density lipoprotein (LDL) particle size (LDL 1-7), we randomly selected 222 men and 243 women from rural and urban areas of Puriscal, Costa Rica.
(17) Waist-to-hip ratio correlated with both age (r = 0.441) and body mass index (r = 0.532) in simple linear correlation analysis (P less than 0.001).
(18) The waist to hip ratio was negatively associated with insulin sensitivity (r = -0.70, P less than 0.05) and insulin pulse interval (r = -0.66, P less than 0.05).
(19) In addition, all affected members show a characteristic pattern of cutaneous hyperpigmentation, which resembles macular amyloidosis around the neck and waist, but which confers a dappled appearance to the axillae, popliteal fossae, thighs, buttocks, and lower aspect of the abdomen.
(20) Fasting serum insulin concentrations were significantly associated with percent body fat (Pearson r = 0.45-0.53), waist-to-hip girth ratio (Pearson r = 0.18-0.27), and most of the physiologic risk factors.