Meaning of shell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hard external covering of an animal.
2. The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
3. seashell
4. A surname.
5. A diminutive of the female given name Michelle.
6. Any mollusk having such a covering.
   broadly
7. shell (mollusk)
8. To hand over; pay: had to shell out $500 in car repairs.
9. The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
10. a type of sweet bread (one that resembles a shell in design and in decoration)
11. contraction of she will.
12. The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
13. pussy, cunt
14. To remove nuts from their shells, or peas from their pods.
15. The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
16. any of several kinds of sea animal covered with a shell (eg oyster, crab). skulpvis سَمَكَه مَحاريَّه ، صَدَفَه мекотело с черупка crustáceo měkkýš, korýš das Schalentier skaldyr θαλασσινά οστρακοειδή crustáceo, marisco koorikloom حلزون صدف دار äyriäinen coquillages; crustacés; fruits de mer חָיַית-מָיִם מִבַעֲלֵי הַקרוּם कवच-प्राण�� školjka, ljuskar kagylós állat(ok) kerang-kerangan skeldÿr/-fiskur mollusco; crostaceo 貝 갑각류의 동물 kiaukutinis gyvûnas vēžveidīgais hidupan laut yang bercangkerang...
    eg
17. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
18. to become more confident and less shy. uit jou dop kom يَخْرُج من عُزْلَتِه ويُصْبِح أقل خَجلا излизам от черупката си sair da casca roztát aus seinem Schneckenhaus herauskommen komme ud af skallen βγαίνω από το καβούκι μου, αφήνω τις ντροπές salir del caparazón oma koorest välja tulema اعتماد به نفس به دست آوردن tulla ulos kuorestaan sortir de sa coquille לְהַפסִיק לְהִסתַגֵר בְּתוֹך עַצמוֹ अपने घेरे या दायरे से निकालना izaći iz ljušture, osloboditi se zatvorenosti kibújik a csigaházból maki...
19. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
20. to pay out (money). I had to shell out twenty dollars. betaal يَدْفَع плащам desembolsar vyklopit blechen punge ud med πληρώνωdesembolsar (raha) välja laduma پرداختن pulittaa débourser לְשַלֵם भुगतान करना izvući novac od koga, protiv volje dati novac leszurkol (összeget) membayar punga út sborsare 支払う 돈을 부득이 치르다, 지불하다 išmesti (pinigų) atdarīt maku bayar opdokken punge ut wybulić پرداختن desembolsar a cheltui раскошеливаться vysoliť plačati platiti protiv volje punga ut med จ่ายเงิน vermek, sö...
21. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
22. The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
23. cáscara; concha marina.
24. A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
25. The usually hard outer covering that encases certain organisms, such as insects, turtles, and most mollusks.
26. Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
    in-plural
27. Something resembling or having the form of a shell, especially:a. An external, usually hard, protective or enclosing case or cover.
28. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
29. Nautical a. The hull of a ship.
    Nautical
30. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
31. 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 scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
32. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
33. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
34. 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.
35. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
36. An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
37. A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
38. 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.
39. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
40. The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
41. The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
42. The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
43. A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
44. A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
45. The outward form independent of what is inside.
    figuratively
46. The empty outward form of someone or something.
    figuratively
47. An emaciated person.
48. A person otherwise diminished.
    figuratively
49. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
50. 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.
51. A legal entity that has no operations.
52. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
53. A gouge bit or shell bit.
54. The onset and coda of a syllable.
55. A person's ear.
    UK, slang
56. One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
    British
57. In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.

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Examples

“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.”

“[…] if with thee the roaring wells ⁠Should gulf him fathom-deep in brine; ⁠And hands so often clasp’d in mine, Should toss with tangle and with shells.”

“The restaurant served caramelized onion shells.”

“The black walnut and the hickory nut, both of the same Genus as the pecan, have much thicker and harder shells than the pecan.”

“Upstairs in that chill darkened room which nobody passes who can help it , the old Baronet lies in his coffin shell - an awful form faintly defined beneath the sheet”

“Then they lifted the body into the bag, setting it down like something breakable, zipped the bag, wrapped the whole thing in polythene and carried the stretcher into the shell.”

“The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.”

“when Jubal struck the chorded shell”

“The setback left him a mere shell; he was never the same again.”

“Mr. Thomas adds that, by the time it was scrapped, Kingsley was in very bad condition, little more than a shell in fact. In view of the rough usage to which the engine had been subjected, this is not surprising.”

“He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self.”

“Since coming back from Vietnam, he's been a shell of his former self.”

“Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell.”

“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".”

“A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.”

“Can I have a quick word in your shell?”

“Chinese (Mandarin) is taught at Westminster from the Lower Shell as an optional subject.”

“a theory shell”

“a topicality shell”

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