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Definition: Mull |
MullNoun1. A term used in Scottish names of promontories; "the Mull of Kintyre". Verb1. Reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate". 2. Heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink; "mulled cider". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mull" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | A term applied by P. E. Muller to soils whose upper mineral layer has become intimately mixed(mainly, if not entirely, through the activities of earthworms)with amorphous organic material, sometimes to a depth of 4-5ft(1. 2-1. 5m); has a granular or lumpy appearance, is loose and friable and below shows an organic content gradually decreasing with depth to zero at the unweathered subsoil. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Forest humus layer of mixed organic and mineral matter with a gradual transition ot the underlying mineral horizon. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A plain cotton cloth of relatively open texture(traditionally with warp and weft cover factors of between 8 and 10)made from fine yarn and used for dress and other purposes. The cloth is soft-finished and usually bleached. Typical making particulars traditionally lie within the range:60s-100s warp and weft;64-80 ends and picks/in. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Mull To make a mull of a job is to fail to do it properly. The failure of a peg-top to spin is called a mull, hence also any blunder or failure. (Scotch, mull, dust, or a contraction of muddle.) The people of Madras are called "Mulls," because they are in a less advanced state of civilisation than the other two presidencies, in consequence of which they are held by them in low estimation. (Anglo-Saxon, myl, dust.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MULL | English | The Modern Uses of Logic in Law | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MullSynonyms: chew over (v), contemplate (v), excogotate (v), meditate (v), mull over (v), muse (v), ponder (v), reflect (v), ruminate (v), speculate (v), think over (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Hill; (height); cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland; point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze, ness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mull |
| English words defined with "mull": Mulled, Mulling, Mulmul ♦ Seerhand. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mull": Long Words ♦ mild mull. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mull": Muslin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mull" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (garden peat, gauze, lint, mull, muslin), Portuguese (finished humus, mild humus, mull), Swedish (earth, Mold, mould). |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
Song Titles | Mull of Kintyre (performing artist: Wings) | |
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 | Survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) are brought ashore from USS Tranquillity (AH-14) at Guam, 8 August 1945. They are being placed in Ambulances for immediate transfer to local hospitals. Photographed by PhoM1c J.G. Mull. Credit: NAVY. |  | North view of the vulcanic amphitheatre at the south point of Mull. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | North west view of the vulcanic amphitheatre at the south point of Mull. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Scotland-isle of mull" by M.Jander Commentary: "Enjoying the beach." | "Sun Setting" by Craig Young Commentary: "Sun beginning to set between Mull & Skye." |
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| "Mull" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 53.19% of the time. "Mull" is used about 141 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 53.19% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 26.95% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.31% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.55% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 141 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mull" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mull | Last name | 4,000 | 3,142 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "mull": mild mull ♦ mull earth ♦ mull over. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "mull": proto-mull. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
martin mull | 60 | the island of mull | 3 |
mull | 59 | mull snuff | 3 |
isle of mull | 39 | convention mull singing | 3 |
mull of kintyre | 38 | joel mull | 3 |
historical mull society | 19 | mull outlet | 3 |
mull scotland | 11 | ferry from mull | 3 |
isle of mull united kingdom | 9 | eric mull | 2 |
kintyre lyrics mull | 9 | dr mull robert s | 2 |
belding mull | 8 | historical mull | 2 |
isle mull scotland | 6 | cam eagle mull sea web | 2 |
hotel island mull | 4 | historical lyrics mull society | 2 |
isle of mull and hotel | 4 | kintyre mull song | 2 |
e mull | 3 | martin mull wendy | 2 |
kyntire mull | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mull"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Muslin (muslin), Vras Mendjen (puzzle over), Nxeh (chafe, cook, enrage, excite, gall, heat, irritate, make angry, rile, roil, torrefy, vex), Ngatërresë (complication, confusion, embroilment, entanglement, hindrance, huddle, imbroglio, intricacy, mess, mix, moil, muddle, network, nodus, nonsense, nuisance, obstruction, quarrel, Ravel, razzle, razzle-dazzle, toss), Burynxhyk. (various references) | |
Arabic | سخن (broil, chafe, heat, heat up, hum, overheat, overheating, run in, scald, stoke, stove, warm up, worm oneself), المل نسيج قطني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Нос (Cape, Neb, Ness, Snoot), Забърквам, Забатачвам, обмислям (agitate, bethink, cogitate, consider, debate, deliberate, digest, meditate, ponder, pore, reason, revolve, speculate, study, think about, think out, think over, turn over in one's mind), мисля върху (debate, mull over), Вид Тънък Муселинов Плат, Бъркотия (Ravel). (various references) | |
Chinese | 研磨 (grind, Mulled, Mulling). (various references) | |
Czech | Zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset, welter), Tabatìrka (cigarette case, snuffbox), Svařit (concoct, joint), Osladit (sweeten). (various references) | |
Danish | mull, muld (finished humus, mild humus, mull earth, top soil, topsoil). (various references) | |
Dutch | mull (finished humus, mild humus, mull earth), milde humus (finished humus, mild humus), zachte humus (mull earth). (various references) | |
Farsi | ململ نازک , معطرکردن وبعمل اوردن مشروبات . (various references) | |
Finnish | multa (earth, soil). (various references) | |
French | mull (mull earth), Réfléchir (muse), humus intermédiaire, humus doux, Chauffer Et Épicer. (various references) | |
German | Mull (garden peat, gauze, lint, muslin). (various references) | |
Greek | γλυκύς χούμος (finished humus, mild humus), μπύρα ή κρασί με μπαχαρικά, μαλακός χούμος (finished humus, mild humus), ζεσταίνω (chafe, heat, warm up), Συλλογίζομαι, Λεπτό Βαμβακερό ύφασμα, Ακρωτήριο (Cape). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ־למלה, ּחשוב ׂל, ּהרהר, ְשפה, ְבק, ײוק ַוף, ׂרבוביה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Muszlin (cheese-cloth, muslin), Mullszövet, Organdin, Elhibáz (to boss, to get wrong, to make a mistake, to miss, to muff, to mull). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mempertimbangkan (balance, consider, envisage, mull over, ponder), berbatin (mull over). (various references) | |
Italian | mull (mull earth), Pasticciare (bungle, goof, hash, make a mess, mess up), humus saturo (finished humus, mild humus), humus glomerulare (finished humus, mild humus), humus dolce (finished humus, mild humus, mull earth). (various references) | |
Manx | mooyl (cape, flat), meayll (cape, crop-eared, depressed, flat, promontory, toneless), chione cheerey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ullmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | musselina (crêpe poil, delaine, muslin), mull (finished humus, mild humus), trapalhada (foul-up, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, huddle, imbroglio, jumble, medley, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix, moil, muddle, muss, puddle), ponderar (balance, cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, mature, meditate, ponder, ruminate, view, weigh), 'mull' (mull earth), húmus doce (finished humus, mild humus), falhar (balk, boss, conk out, fail, flop, lapse, mammock, miscarry, miss, muff, peter out, slump, smash, stumble), embrulhada (embroilment, gallimaufry, imbroglio, intricacy, involution, moil, muddle, puddle), confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, muddle, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), confundir (addle, astonish, astound, baffle, befog, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, confusing, confute, daze, dazzle, disarray, disconcert, distract, dizzy, dumbfound, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, flabbergast, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, fog, gravel, interfuse, intermingle, jumble, maze, mistake, mix up, moider, muddle, muddy, nonplus, obfuscate, obscure, overwhelm, perplex, put out, puzzle, rattle, ravel, stagger), canela (canella, cassia, cinnamon, shin, shuttle). (various references) | |
Romanian | Tifon (gauze), Promontoriu (bill, Cape, foreland, head, headland, Ness, peninsula, promontory, rock), Cap (bean, beginning, brains, Cape, chief, chump, end, foreland, front, head, heading, headland, judgment, knob, lid, loaf, mastermind, Ness, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, promontory, rock, sense, skull, top, understanding), Încãlzi şi Pune Mirodenii. (various references) | |
Russian | Обдумывать, Путаница (Ravel), Промахнуться (Miss), Перепутать, Мыс (Cape, Ness), Неразбериха, обдумывать (chew, cogitate, cogitated, cogitating, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, perpend, ponder, premeditate, think of). (various references) | |
Scottish | Muile. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zabrljati (make a mess, put one's foot in it, screw up), tanak muslin, pobrkati (bungle, confuse, mistake, mix up), kuvati i začiniti, greben (card, comb, crag, crest, overfall, reef, ridge, ripple, skerry), burmutica (snuffbox). (various references) | |
Spanish | mull (mull earth), mantillo suave (finished humus, mild humus), mantillo (humus, Mold, mould, mulch), Reflexionar Con (cogitate, muse), humus dulce (finished humus, mild humus), Calentar Con Especias, "mull" (finished humus, mild humus). (various references) | |
Swedish | grubbla (brood, cogitate, eat one's heart out, muse, ponder, puzzle, puzzle over, rack one's brains, ruminate, worry), glödga (anneal, ignite, make red-hot), fundera (be reflected, chew the cud, cogitate, contemplate, muse, ponder, think, wonder). (various references) | |
Thai | ครุ่นคิด (ruminant, ruminate). (various references) | |
Turkish | Organdi (organdie, organdy), Þarabı Baharatla Kaynatmak, Ýnce Muslin. (various references) | |
Turkmen | ikirjinlemek (mull over, think upon). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Промахнутися (Bos, Miss), Переплутати, Плутанина (Babel, Bos, Ravel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình trạng rối ren, tình trạng lộn xộn (mess, mix-up, muddle, pell-mell, topsyturvydom, trouble). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | mul. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | mullyn. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mull": mulla, mullah, mullahism, mullahisms, mullahs, mullas, mulled, mullein, mulleins, mullen, mullens, muller, mullers, mullet, mullets, mulley, mulleys, mulligan, mulligans, mulligatawnies, mulligatawny, mulling, mullion, mullioned, mullioning, mullions, mullite, mullites, mullock, mullocks, mullocky, mulls. (additional references) | |
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"Mull" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eull, Jull, kull, maull, Mbulelo, mell, Mgulu, Muhl, Muil, mul, mula, mulcle, muld, Mulk, mulle, Mullu, mulm, mulo, mult, mulu, muly, Murl, Mutlu, muul, myl, myll, omul, Uml, Umsl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mull" (pronounced mu"l) |
| 2 | -u" l | cull, dull, Gul, gull, Hull, stull, lull, null, scull, skull, Trull. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-l-m-u" | |
-1 letter: lum. | |
-2 letters: mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-l-m-u" | |
+1 letter: mulla, mulls. | |
+2 letters: allium, fullam, glumly, illume, limuli, mullah, mullas, mulled, mullen, muller, mullet, mulley, vellum. | |
+3 letters: alliums, ampulla, blellum, chillum, columel, fullams, gallium, illumed, illumes, limulus, lumenal, luminal, lumpily, malleus, medulla, millrun, mollusc, mollusk, mouille, mudsill, mullahs, mullein, mullens, mullers, mullets, mulleys, mulling, mullion, mullite, mullock, pallium, plumply, plumule, pullman, skellum, vellums. | |
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