Hulk : (특히 폐선/폐건물/폐기계 등의) 선체, (17-18세기)감옥선, (불길하게) 다가오다, 떠오르다
Hulking : (흔히 불안감을 줄 정도로) 거대한, (너무 커서)다루기 힘든
1)
a hulk, the real meaning of hulk is the body of an old ship or an old car or an old building that is broken that it's had all of the fittings taken out of it
as we travel down the road, we passed the hulks of burned out cars
it's like the skeloton of a machine or the skeloton of a ship
some of the most impacting photographs about global warming are hulks of ships in the middle of what looks like a desert but probably used to a lake or a seashore and it's just dried up completely
a ship that's been stripped and permanently moored
I think it hulk particularly comes from ships but nowadays we use it to talk about something that is burned out, that is no longer used, it's broken and finished
aftere the earthquake, all that could be seen with hulks of buildings
a hulk, a large disused structure
the hulks of abandoned machinery
its ship or a car or a building or a machine that you see normally a little bit frightening as well
the hulk of a ruined church
there was the hulk of a fishing boat on the shore and the kids were playing in it
it's like the derelict shell of something
the wreck of something
2)
in the old days or even now, a hulk was an old ship that was used for as a prison
particularly in perhaps the 18th 17th century
when there was a war, they used to put the prisoners of war on a hulk in the middle of a bay or something like that they were imprisoned there
3)
hulking, this adjective means great big massive heavily built
the incredible Hulk you've seen in the movie is a hulking great man
you can also use a hulk or hulking, to say somebody that is big but clumsy or something that's unwieldy
he arrived with this hulking great suitcase, enormous suitcase that was difficult to move around
he is a real hulk of a man
he is got this hulking great big dog that makes everybody afraid of it
4)
the neighbor upstairs hulking about from, moving heavily
to loom over something
the abandoned factories hulked along the side of the river
Formality : 6 for a hulk as in the dead body of a machine or something
Formality : 6.5 for prision ship
Formality : 4 for hulking great big
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