LULL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lull mean? 

• LULL (noun)
  The noun LULL has 2 senses:

1. a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished

2. a period of calm weather

  Familiarity information: LULL used as a noun is rare.

• LULL (verb)
  The verb LULL has 3 senses:

1. calm by deception

2. become quiet or less intensive

3. make calm or still

  Familiarity information: LULL used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LULL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

letup; lull

Context example:

there was never a letup in the noise

Hypernyms ("lull" is a kind of...):

break; intermission; interruption; pause; suspension (a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something)

Derivation:

lull (become quiet or less intensive)

lull (calm by deception)

lull (make calm or still)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A period of calm weather

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

lull; quiet

Context example:

there was a lull in the storm

Hypernyms ("lull" is a kind of...):

calmness (an absence of strong winds or rain)

Derivation:

lull (calm by deception)

• LULL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lull    ... he / she / it lulls   
Past simple: lulled   
Past participle: lulled   
-ing form: lulling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Calm by deception

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

Don't let yourself be lulled into a false state of security

Hypernyms (to "lull" is one way to...):

calm; calm down; lull; quiet; quieten; still; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize (make calm or still)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

lull (a period of calm weather)

lull (a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become quiet or less intensive

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

calm down; lull

Context example:

the fighting lulled for a moment

Hypernyms (to "lull" is one way to...):

hush; hush up; quieten; shut up; silence; still (cause to be quiet or not talk)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

lull (a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make calm or still

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

calm; calm down; lull; quiet; quieten; still; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize

Context example:

quiet the dragons of worry and fear

Hypernyms (to "lull" is one way to...):

comfort; console; solace; soothe (give moral or emotional strength to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lull"):

lull (calm by deception)

compose (calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet)

appease; assuage; conciliate; gentle; gruntle; lenify; mollify; pacify; placate (cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of)

assure; reassure (cause to feel sure; give reassurance to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to lull Sue

Derivation:

lull (a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished)

 Context examples 

There was a momentary lull, broken by Hannah, who stalked in, laid two hot turnovers on the table, and stalked out again.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A data type comprised of the periodic lull between sets of unordered, quantitative values.

(Continuous Set Periodic Hull Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

Often, when most miserable, I sank to repose, and my dreams lulled me even to rapture.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He took the glasses from me, and at the next lull of the snow swept the whole space below us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Grace has, on the whole, proved a good keeper; though, owing partly to a fault of her own, of which it appears nothing can cure her, and which is incident to her harassing profession, her vigilance has been more than once lulled and baffled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The wind might by this time have lulled a little, though not more sensibly than if the cannonading I had dreamed of, had been diminished by the silencing of half-a-dozen guns out of hundreds.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At four o'clock a lull took place, and baskets remained empty, while the apple pickers rested and compared rents and bruises.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations; when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giver of oblivion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We had heard no step on that grass-grown track; the water running in the vale was the one lulling sound of the hour and scene; we might well then start when a gay voice, sweet as a silver bell, exclaimed—Good evening, Mr. Rivers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a warm, dusty evening, just the time when, in the great main thoroughfare out of which that by-way turned, there was a temporary lull in the eternal tread of feet upon the pavement, and a strong red sunshine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)