Hülle
German
Etymology
From Middle High German hülle, from Old High German hulla, derived from the verb hullen (whence modern hüllen), from Proto-West Germanic *hulljan, from Proto-Germanic *huljaną. Related with English hull, though not immediately cognate.
Pronunciation
Noun
Hülle f (genitive Hülle, plural Hüllen)
- covering, wrapping
- (humorous, often in the plural) synonym of Kleidung
- die Hüllen fallen lassen ― to undress (literally, “to drop the wrappings”)
- case, sheath
- Synonym: Hülse
- husk (useless, dried-up, worthless exterior)
- mantle (anything that covers or conceals something else)
- shell (any hollow structure; framework, or exterior structure)
- cladding (hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection)
- (aeronautics) envelope (bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship)
- (chemistry) shell (set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number)
- (mathematics) closure (smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property)
Declension
Declension of Hülle [feminine]
Derived terms
- CD-Hülle f (“jewel case (CD cover)”)
- enthüllen (“to unveil, reveal”)
- Erdhülle (“geosphere”)
- Hüllblatt (“involucre”)
- hüllen (“to wrap, drape, cover”)
- Hüllenelektron (“shell electron”)
- Hüllkelch
- Hüllkurve (“envelope (geometry)”)
- Hüllwort (“euphemism”)
- in Hülle und Fülle (“in abundance”)
- Lufthülle (“atmosphere”)