Hulk

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.

   “Light boates ſaile ſwift, though greater hulkes draw deepe.”

2. isim A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.

   “They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks.”

3. isim A large structure with a dominating presence.

   “The sturdy trunk of Central Park Tower is rising nearby – a great glass hulk that will soon steal the crown for the most vertiginous residences on the planet.”

4. isim A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
5. isim An excessively muscled person.
6. fiil To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.

   “In Fremantle very few vessels appear to have been reduced to hulks, and only one figure head Samuel Plimsoll, [Fig. 62] survives from a sailing ship hulked in 1904. [...] The Sarah Burnyeat was hulked in Albany in 1886, [...]”

7. fiil To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
8. fiil To move (a large, hulking body).

   “This hearty, willing man had hulked his 354 pounds about the world, faithfully and deftly running presidential errands in Cuba, Panama, the Philippines, Rome, Russia, and Japan and China.”

9. fiil To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.

   “After one trip with them, he decided he couldn't stand to have bodyguards hulking around him wherever he went. He felt like an idiot walking along the aisles of the supermarket with eight lumpy men standing around [...]”

10. fiil Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.

    “After a while he hulked up to where Erland sat, putting his hairy fist on the table and watching the boy work.”

11. fiil To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.

    “And with this ſwaſhing blow, do you ſwear Prince; / I could hulk your Grace, and hang you up croſs-legg'd, / Like a Hare at a Poulters, and do this with this wiper.”

12. özel isim A fictional Marvel Comics character who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.

    “Fry: How can you say Lars is more mature than me? Leela: Well, for one thing, his checkbook doesn't have the Hulk on it.”

13. isim A person resembling, especially physically, the Hulk in the Marvel Comics Universe.
14. isim A strongman.