Shell

Word SHELL
Character 5
Hyphenation shell
Pronunciations /ʃɛl/

Definitions and meanings of "Shell"

What do we mean by shell?

The usually hard outer covering that encases certain organisms, such as insects, turtles, and most mollusks. noun

A similar outer covering on a nut or seed. noun

A similar outer covering on certain eggs, such as those of birds and reptiles; an eggshell. noun

The material that constitutes such a covering. noun

Something resembling or having the form of a shell, especially. noun

An external, usually hard, protective or enclosing case or cover. noun

A framework or exterior, as of a building. noun

A thin layer of pastry. noun

The external part of the ear. noun

The hull of a ship. noun

A light, long, narrow racing boat propelled by rowers. noun

A small glass for beer. noun

An artillery projectile containing an explosive charge. noun

A metal or cardboard case containing the charge and primer for a piece of firearms ammunition, especially one also containing shot and fired from a shotgun. noun

An attitude or a manner adopted to mask one's true feelings or to protect one from perceived or real danger. noun

A set of electron orbitals having nearly the same energy and sharing the same first quantum number. noun

A hard external covering of an animal.

The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.

One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.

The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.

The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.

The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.

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.

The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.

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.

A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.

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.

The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.

(rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.

A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.

A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.

The outward form independent of what is inside.

The empty outward form of someone or something.

An emaciated person.

A psychological barrier to social interaction.

An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.

A legal entity that has no operations.

A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.

A gouge bit or shell bit.

The onset and coda of a syllable.

A person's ear.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Shell

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The word "shell" in example sentences

I used to listen to the sea in that shell in the sitting-room, and I tried and tried to find a name for the sound, and all at once _song_ came into my head -- _The song of the sea in the shell_. ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)

The Cambridge psychologist C. S. Myers invented the term shell shock in 1915 and it soon became popular with soldiers and civilians as an informal description of the phenomenon. ❋ Catharine Arnold (2008)

This produced huge numbers of soldiers unable to fight for psychological reasons—up to 40 percent of battlefield casualties by some estimates.4 But at the time, doctors thought that the concussive effects of the constant shelling somehow damaged the nervous system—hence the name shell shock. ❋ M.D. Henry Emmons (2010)

Please be aware that even if the reinstalller does not actually care about its position when invoked, the two parts (the tar archive and the term shell script) are both needed in the same folder. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These are the people who only read Harry Potter and Dan Brown, so breaking into their shell is a real battle for anyone, POD published or not. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In adult Limax maximus, the shell is a flat, elongated plate (this post has a picture of the shell). ❋ AYDIN (2009)

Ghost in the shell is a strong profound block to an answer to the greatest question, What is a soul? ❋ Unknown (2005)

It was what they call shell-shock, a terrible thing. ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)

It is connected with liquidating Champion Insurance Co., which had a complicated corporate structure or what I call a shell game form of financing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An egg-shaped fruit with a hard yellow-orange "shell" is cut open to reveal a soft, grayish pulp, which is eaten right out of the shell with a spoon. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. ❋ Anne Naylor (2010)

My racing shell is twenty-six feet long, ten inches wide and weighs about thirty pounds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I can think of a lot of pink in nature: the inside of a white murex shell is pink. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The contrast of the inside pink bordered by the lovely white on the outside shell is just beautiful, like the wedding cake you show. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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