Shell

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

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

   “The restaurant served caramelized onion shells.”

8. isim 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.”

9. isim A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
10. isim Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
11. isim The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
12. isim The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
13. isim 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.
14. isim The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
15. isim Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
16. isim 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.
17. isim A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.

    “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”

18. isim An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.

    “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.”

19. isim 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.”

20. isim 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.
21. fiil To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
22. fiil To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.

    “The guns shelled the enemy trenches.”

23. fiil To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
24. fiil To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
25. fiil To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.

    “Nuts shell in falling.”

26. fiil To switch to a shell or command line.

    “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.”

27. fiil To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
28. fiil To form a shelling.
29. fiil To drop (the ball).

    “He shelled it, and dislocated his finger in the process.”

30. özel isim A surname.