Pronunciation Noun
shell (plural shells)
- A hard external covering of an animal.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- In some mollusks, as the cuttlefish, the shell is concealed by the animal's outer mantle and is considered internal.
- Genuine mother-of-pearl buttons are made from sea shells.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- The restaurant served caramelized onion shells.
- (botany) The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- The black walnut and the hickory nut, both of the same Genus as the pecan, have much thicker and harder shells than the pecan.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scattered at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.
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- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- The setback left him a mere shell; he was never the same again.
- An emaciated person.
- He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter.
- The name "Bash" is an acronym which stands for "Bourne-again shell", itself a pun on the name of the "Bourne shell", an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen Bourne, and the Christian concept of being "born again".
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- Synonyms: shell-like
- Can I have a quick word in your shell?
- French: coquille, coquillage
- German: Schale
- Italian: conchiglia
- Portuguese: concha
- Russian: ра́ковина
- Spanish: concha
- French: coquille
- German: Schale, Eierschale
- Italian: guscio
- Portuguese: casca
- Russian: скорлупа́
- Spanish: cáscara
- French: carapace
- Italian: carapace, esoscheletro
- Portuguese: carapaça
- Russian: па́нцирь
- Spanish: concha
- French: coque
- German: Schale
- Italian: guscio, mallo
- Portuguese: casca
- Russian: скорлупа́
- Spanish: cáscara
- Italian: mallo
- Italian: geode, drusa
- Portuguese: cartucho
- Russian: патро́н
- French: coque
- French: interface système
- German: Shell
- Portuguese: terminal, console
- Russian: оболо́чка
- Spanish: terminal
- French: squelette
- Russian: оболо́чка
- French: coquille
shell (shells, present participle shelling; past and past participle shelled)
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- Nuts shell in falling.
- Wheat or rye shells in reaping.
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- 1993, Robin Nixon, The PC Companion (page 115)
- Automenu is a good program to try, and offers a fair amount of protection - but, unfortunately, it's one of those systems that allow users to shell to DOS.
- 1993, Robin Nixon, The PC Companion (page 115)
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- French: décortiquer
- Italian: sgranare, sgusciare
- Portuguese: descascar
- Spanish: descascarar (nut), desvainar (pea)
- French: pilonner, bombarder
- Italian: bombardare
- Portuguese: bombardear
- Spanish: bombardear
Shell
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʃɛl/
- A diminutive of the female given name Michelle.
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