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shell
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)
- A hard external covering of an animal.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- (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.
- (botany) The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- 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 scatter 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.
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- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
- (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.
- An emaciated person.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (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.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- 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.
- (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)
- 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.
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
- 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
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between
English
Alternative forms
- betweene (archaic)
- betwene (archaic)
- b/w (abbreviation)
Etymology
From Middle English betwene, from Old English betw?onan, betw?onum (“between, among, amid, in the midst, meanwhile”, dative plural, literally “by the two, near both”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”) + *tw?hnaz (“two each”), corresponding to be- +? twain. Cognate with Scots between (“between”), Scots atween (“between”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (tweihnai, “two each”), Old English betweohs (“between”), Old English twinn (“double, twofold”). More at betwixt, twin.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??twi?n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??twin/, /b??twin/, [b??t?win]
- Hyphenation: be?tween
Preposition
between
- In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See Usage notes below.)
- Done together or reciprocally.
- Shared in confidence.
- In transit from (one to the other, or connecting places).
- Combined (by effort or ownership).
- One of (representing a choice).
- Taking together the combined effect of.
Usage notes
- Some groups of non-native speakers confuse between and among. It is sometimes said that between usually applies to two things, while among applies to more than two things. This is not correct; according to the Oxford English Dictionary: "In all senses, between has been, from its earliest appearance, extended to more than two. In OE and ME, it was so extended in sense 1, in which among is now considered better. It is still the only word available to express the relation of a thing to many surrounding things severally and individually, among expressing a relation to them collectively and vaguely: we should not say ‘the space lying among the three points,’ or ‘a treaty among three powers,’ or ‘the choice lies among the three candidates in the select list,’ or ‘to insert a needle among the closed petals of a flower’".
Synonyms
- atween (archaic)
- atwix (dialectal)
- atwixt (archaic)
- betwixt (archaic)
Derived terms
- Pages starting with “between”.
Translations
See also
- betwixt
- among
Noun
between (plural betweens)
- A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics.
References
Anagrams
- betwene
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