MULL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mull mean? 

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

1. a term used in Scottish names of promontories

2. an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides

  Familiarity information: MULL used as a noun is rare.

• MULL (verb)
  The verb MULL has 2 senses:

1. reflect deeply on a subject

2. heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink

  Familiarity information: MULL used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MULL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A term used in Scottish names of promontories

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

the Mull of Kintyre

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

foreland; head; headland; promontory (a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea))

Sense 2

Meaning:

An island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("Mull" is a part of...):

Inner Hebrides (islands between the Outer Hebrides and the western coast of Scotland)

• MULL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mull    ... he / she / it mulls   
Past simple: mulled   
Past participle: mulled   
-ing form: mulling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reflect deeply on a subject

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

chew over; contemplate; excogitate; meditate; mull; mull over; muse; ponder; reflect; ruminate; speculate; think over

Context example:

The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

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

cerebrate; cogitate; think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)

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

premeditate (think or reflect beforehand or in advance)

theologise; theologize (make theoretical speculations about theology or discuss theological subjects)

introspect (reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings)

bethink (consider or ponder something carefully)

cogitate (consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind)

question; wonder (place in doubt or express doubtful speculation)

puzzle (be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide)

consider; study (give careful consideration to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

muller (a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

mulled cider

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

dulcify; dulcorate; edulcorate; sweeten (make sweeter in taste)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

muller (a vessel in which wine is mulled)

 Context examples 

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)