Cover vs Shell - What's the difference?

In context|music|lang=en terms the difference between cover and shell

is that cover is (music) to make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist) while shell is (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.

As nouns the difference between cover and shell

is that cover is a lid while shell is the calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.

As verbs the difference between cover and shell

is that cover is to place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect while shell is to remove the outer covering or shell of something see sheller.

As a adjective cover

is of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.

cover

English

(wikipedia cover)

Noun

(en noun)

A lid.

A hiding from view.

A front and back of a book or magazine.

A top sheet of a bed.

A cover charge.

A setting at a restaurant table or formal .

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(music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.

(topology) A set (more often known as a family ) of sets, whose union contains the given set.

(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.

(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.

(legal) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.

(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.

(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story

The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.

(Knight)

In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.

Derived terms

* cover board * cover charge * cover letter * cover story * cover version * take cover * tonneau cover

Adjective

(-)

Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.

(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.

Verb

(en verb)

To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

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To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).

*(John Brougham) (1814-1880)

*:the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland

(label) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.

To deal with.

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*:Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist'', ''The New York Times'', ''Scientific American'', and ''Wired .

To be enough money for.

(label) To act as a replacement.

(label) To have as an assignment or responsibility.

(label) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).

To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or'' to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; ''or to threaten using an aimed firearm.

To provide insurance coverage for.

To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).

To protect or control (a piece or square).

Quotations

* (English Citations of "cover")

Derived terms

* coverage * cover up * cover one's bases * coverer * discover * duck and cover * recover * uncover

Descendants

* German: (l)

shell

English

(wikipedia shell)

Noun

(en noun)

A hard external covering of an animal.

# 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.

Genuine mother of pearl buttons are made from sea shells .

# (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.

# (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.

# The conjoined scutes that comprise the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.

# The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.

The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.

The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.

# 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.

# 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 accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.

The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.

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 scattered at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.

The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.

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.

(Knight)

(music) 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.

* Dryden

when Jubal struck the chorded shell

(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.

(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 the frame of which is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.

(computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter.

The name shell originates from it being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the internals of the operating system.

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".

(chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.

An emaciated person.

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

A psychological barrier to social interaction.

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

(business) A legal entity that has no operations.

A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.

Derived terms

* clamshell * clean shell * come out of one’s shell * eggshell * seashell * shellfish * shell script * shell suit * tortoiseshell

Verb

(en verb)

To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.

To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.

(informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out ).

To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.

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) 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.

Derived terms

* shell out

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Anagrams

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