Port vs Shell - What's the difference?
port | shell |
A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
* Shakespeare
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, title= A town or city containing such a place.
(nautical, uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Port does not change based on the orientation of the person aboard the craft.
(nautical) Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel.
(nautical, transitive, chiefly, imperative) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
An entryway or gate.
* 1485 , (Thomas Malory), Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
(curling, bowls) A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made.
(computing) A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred.
(computing) A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
(obsolete) To carry, bear, or transport. See porter.
(military) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
(computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform.
(telephony) To carry or transfer an existing telephone number from one telephone service provider to another.
Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.
(archaic) The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also portance.
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* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
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(military) The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
(computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.
(computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.
A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.
(Australia, Queensland, northern New South Wales, colloquial) A schoolbag or suitcase.
* 2001 , Sally de Dear, The House on Pig Island ,
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 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.
# 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.
(music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
* Dryden
(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.
(chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
An emaciated person.
A psychological barrier to social interaction.
(business) A legal entity that has no operations.
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.
(computing) To switch to a shell or command line.
* 1993 , Robin Nixon, The PC Companion (page 115)
As proper nouns the difference between port and shell
is that port is while shell is a diminutive of the female given name michelle .port
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) port, from (etyl) (and thus distantly cognate with ford).Noun
(en noun)- peering in maps for ports and piers and roads
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port' does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the ' port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Synonyms
* (place where ships dock) harbour, haven * (town or city containing such a place) harbour city, harbour town, port city * (left-hand side of a vessel) larboard, leftAntonyms
* (right-hand side of a vessel) starboardDerived terms
* airport, seaport, spaceport * port authority, port of call, first port of call * Newport * outportAdjective
(-)- on the port side
Synonyms
* larboard, leftAntonyms
* starboardVerb
(en verb)- Port your helm!
Etymology 2
From (etyl) , reinforced in (etyl), from (etyl) porte.Noun
(en noun)- And whan he cam to the porte of the pavelon, Sir Palomydes seyde an hyghe, ‘Where art thou, Sir Trystram de Lyones?’
- Long were it to describe the goodly frame, / And stately port of Castle Joyeous [...].
- Him I accuse/The city ports by this hath enter'd'' —
- And from their ivory port the Cherubim,/Forth issuing at the accustomed hour,'' —
- ...her ports being within sixteen inches of the water... —
Derived terms
* porthole * chase port * sally port * (computing) port forwarding, accelerated graphics port, serial port, USB portEtymology 3
From (etyl) porter, from (etyl) . Akin to transport, portable.Verb
(en verb)- They are easily ported by boat into other shires.'' — , ''The History of the Worthies of England
- Port arms!
- ...the angelic squadron...began to hem him round with ported spears.'' —
Derived terms
* porter * portage * port-o-john, port-o-potty * portlyNoun
(en noun)- And of his port as meeke as is a mayde.
- Those same with stately grace, and princely port / She taught to tread, when she her selfe would grace
- the necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world
- Gamers can't wait until a port of the title is released on the new system.
- The latest port of the database software is the worst since we made the changeover.
Derived terms
* (military) at the high portEtymology 4
Named from (etyl) Oporto, a city in Portugal from whence the wines were originally shipped.Noun
(en noun) (Port wine)Synonyms
* (fortified wine) porto, port wineEtymology 5
Noun
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- As they left the classroom, Jennifer pointed at the shelves lining the veranda. “Put your port in there.”
- “What?” asked Penny.
- “Your port - your school bag, silly. It goes in there.”
shell
English
(wikipedia shell)Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- The black walnut and the hickory nut, both of the same ''Genus as the pecan, have much thicker and harder shells than the pecan.
- (Knight)
- The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.
- when Jubal struck the chorded shell
- 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".
- He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self.
- Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell .
- 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 * tortoiseshellVerb
(en verb)- Nuts shell in falling.
- Wheat or rye shells in reaping.
- 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.