different between she vs shell

English

Etymology

From Middle English sche, hye, from earlier scho, hyo, ?ho, a phonetic development of Old English h?o, h?o, from Proto-Germanic *hij? f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *?e-, *?ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with English dialectal hoo, Scots scho, shu, Saterland Frisian jo, ju, West Frisian hja, North Frisian jü, Danish hun, Swedish hon. More at he.

Despite the similarity in appearance, the Old English feminine demonstrative s?o (“that”) (the cognate of Dutch zij and German sie) is probably not the source of Middle English forms in sch-. Rather, the sch- developed out of a change in stress upon hío resulting in hió, spelt ?ho (?h = h?, compare wh = hw, lh = hl, etc.), and the h was palatalised into the sh sound. Similar alteration can be seen in the name Shetland, from Old Norse Hjaltland; ?ho is the immediate parent form of Middle English scho and sche.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: sidhe, Xi, shee

Pronoun

she (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case, oblique and possessive her, possessive hers, reflexive herself)

1. (personal) The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
2. (personal, sometimes endearing) A ship or boat.

3. (personal, dated, sometimes endearing, old-fashioned) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.

4. (personal, endearing or poetic, old-fashioned) Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
   • 1928, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 765:

     Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in and possess. Summer is the great consummation.

5. (personal, nonstandard) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
   • 1990, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow

     Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.

Usage notes

• Since at least the 1920s and 30s, some gay or queer men refer to other gay or queer men and/or themselves with she/her pronouns, as well as with other feminine terms such as Miss and girl, to signal their sexuality rather than their gender identity; this has sometimes been termed "the gay she":

Translations

See also

Determiner

she

1. (African-American Vernacular) Synonym of her

Noun

she (plural shes)

1. A female.

   Pat is definitely a she.

   • Come, come, we know very well what all the matter is; but if one won’t, another will; so pretty a gentleman need never want a lady. I am sure, if I was you, I would see the finest she that ever wore a head hanged, before I would go for a soldier for her.

   • 2000, Sue V. Rosser, Building inclusive science volume 28, issues 1–2, page 189:

     A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.

References

Anagrams

• EH&S, EHS, Esh, HSE, ehs, esh, he's, hes, hse

Albanian

Etymology

A derivative of shi.

Noun

she m (indefinite plural she, definite singular sheu, definite plural shetë)

1. undrying rivulet

Related terms

• shi

Mandarin

Romanization

she

1. Nonstandard spelling of sh?.
2. Nonstandard spelling of shé.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sh?.
4. Nonstandard spelling of shè.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish is ed (“it is so”). Compare Irish sea, Scottish Gaelic seadh.

Particle

she (dependent form nee)

1. Present/future copula form

   (definition: predicate is indefinite)

   (identification: predicate is definite)

   (cleft sentence)

   (cleft sentence)

Usage notes

Used in present and future sentences for identification or definition of a subject as the person/object identified in the predicate of the sentence. Used to introduce cleft sentences, which are extremely common in Manx. It is not a verb. For the particle that introduces adjectives, see s'.

She has no past tense; the appropriate conjugation of ve must be used instead.

Middle English

Pronoun

she

1. Alternative form of sche

English

Etymology

From Middle English schelle, from Old English s?iell, from Proto-West Germanic *skallju, from Proto-Germanic *skalj?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”).

Compare West Frisian skyl (“peel, rind”), Dutch schil (“peel, skin, rink”), Low German Schell (“shell, scale”), Irish scelec (“pebble”), Latin silex (“pebble, flint”), siliqua (“pod”), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (skolika, “shell”). More at shale.Doublet of sheal.

• (computing): From being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the operating-system internals.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?l, IPA^(key): /??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

shell (plural shells)

1. A hard external covering of an animal.
   1. The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.

   2. (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
   3. (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
   4. The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
   5. The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
2. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
3. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.

4. (botany) The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
   1. The covering, or outside part, of a nut.

   2. A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
   3. (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.
5. (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
6. (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
7. (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 scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
8. (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
9. (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
10. 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.
11. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.

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12. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
    • 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day

13. (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.
14. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
15. The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
16. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
17. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
18. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
19. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
20. (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
21. (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.

22. An emaciated person.

23. A psychological barrier to social interaction.

24. (computing) 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.

25. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.

26. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
27. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
28. (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
29. (Britain, slang) A person's ear.

    Synonym: shell-like

    Can I have a quick word in your shell?

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shell (third-person singular simple present shells, present participle shelling, simple past and past participle shelled)

1. To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
2. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
3. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
4. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
5. (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.

6. (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.

7. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
8. (topology) To form a shelling.

Derived terms

• sheller
• shell out

Translations

Further reading

• shell in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• shell in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• shell on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• hells

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Etymology

From Middle English schal, from Old English s?eal.

Verb

shell

1. shall

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN