shell
n//ʃɛl//fjäll, skal, äggskal, balja, skida, hylsa, granat, granathylsa, plåt, kommandotolk, shell, skalprogram, tolk, skalbolag, skala, ömsa
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.
(entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
(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.
(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.
(chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
A psychological barrier to social interaction.
A hard external covering of an animal.
One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
(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.
An engraved copper roller used in print works.
(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.
To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
(intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.