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In intransitive terms the difference between ring and shell

is that ring is to produce music with bells while shell is to cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.

In lang=en terms the difference between ring and shell

is that ring is to repeat often, loudly, or earnestly while shell is 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 ring and shell

is that ring is a solid object in the shape of a circle while shell is a hard external covering of an animal.

As verbs the difference between ring and shell

is that ring is to surround or enclose while shell is to remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.

As proper nouns the difference between ring and shell

is that ring is {{surname|from=occupations}} for a maker of rings as jewelry or as in harness while Shell is a diminutive of the female given name Michelle.

ring

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), also (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A solid object in the shape of a circle.
  • # A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
  • # A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
  • #* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • The dearest ring in Venice will I give you.
  • # (label) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
  • # A burner on a kitchen stove.
  • # In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
  • # An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
  • # (label) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
  • (label) A group of objects arranged in a circle.
  • # A circular group of people or objects.
  • #* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • And hears the Muses in a ring / Aye round about Jove's altar sing.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
  • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • # (label) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet.
  • # (label) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as (Stonehenge).
  • A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
  • A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
  • * (1672–1710)
  • Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring , / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory.
  • An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
  • * (Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)
  • the ruling ring at Constantinople
  • (label) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
  • (label) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a .
  • (label) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
  • * 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, page 168.
  • The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties. —
  • (label) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring ).
  • * 2007 , Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation (page 70)
  • Kernel Mode processes run in ring' 0, and User Mode processes run in ' ring 3.
  • (label) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
  • Synonyms
    * (circumscribing object) hoop, annulus, torus
    Derived terms
    * annual ring * benzene ring * boxing ring * brass ring * bull ring * calamari ring * chainring * circus ring * class ring * claw ring * coffee ring * D ring * diamond ring * division ring * earring * egg ring * engagement ring * enringed * finger ring * Fomalhaut dust ring * front ring * gas ring * growth ring * key ring/keyring * life ring * limbal ring * local ring * mancude-ring system * neck ring * nose ring * O-ring * oath ring * Olympic Rings * onion ring * pinky ring * piscatory ring * piston ring * planetary ring * prize ring * quotient ring * (w, Ring a Ring o' Roses) * ring-a-levio * ring armor * ring bark/ringbark/ring-bark * ring-billed * ring binder * ring dance * ring dove/ringdove * ring dropper * ring fence * ring finger/ringfinger * ring game * ringlike * ring mail/ringmail * ring of death * Ring of Fire * ring of steel * ring of truth * ring ouzel * ring parrot * ring plover * ring-porous * ring pull * ring rat * ring road * ring snake * ring spanner * ring species * ring spot * ring stand * ring system * ring-tailed * ring theory * ring thrush * ring toplogy * ringed * ringbearer * ringleader * ringlet * ringlike * ringneck * ring-neck(ed) * ringpiece * ringside * ring spot * ringstraked * ringtail * ring-tail(ed) * ringworm * rubber ring * run rings around * signet ring * seal ring * slip ring * smoke ring * snap ring * spy ring * star ring * synonym ring * teething ring * thumb ring * toe ring * token ring * tongue ring * tree ring * wedding ring
    See also
    Image:JO Atlanta 1996 - Boxe.jpg, A boxing ring . Image:Finger ring.jpg, A ring on a finger. Image:Tree rings.jpg, The rings of a tree. Image:Georges Seurat 019.jpg, The circus ring . Image:Bird ringing shandong.JPG, A ring on a bird's leg. Image:Saturn eclipse.jpg, The rings of Saturn.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To surround or enclose.
  • The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
  • (figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle.
  • They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
  • To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
  • Only ringed hogs may forage in the commons.
    We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
  • To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
  • to ring a pig's snout
  • * Shakespeare
  • Ring these fingers.
  • (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
  • * 1877 , (Gerard Manley Hopkins), :
  • .. how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing ..
    Derived terms
    * ringer

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
  • The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.
    The ring of hammer on anvil filled the air.
  • (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
  • The name has a nice ring to it.
  • (colloquial) A telephone call.
  • I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.
  • Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • the ring of acclamations fresh in his ears
  • A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
  • St Mary's has a ring of eight bells.
  • * Fuller
  • as great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world
    Derived terms
    * give a ring * ringtone

    Verb

  • Of a bell, to produce sound.
  • The bells were ringing in the town.
  • To make (a bell) produce sound.
  • The deliveryman rang the doorbell to drop off a parcel.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, / Hath rung night's yawning peal.
  • (figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
  • Whose mobile phone is ringing ?
  • (figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
  • That does not ring true.
  • (transitive, colloquial, British, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
  • I will ring you when we arrive.
  • to resound, reverberate, echo.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • So he spoke, and it seemed there was a little halting at first, as of men not liking to take Blackbeard's name in Blackbeard's place, or raise the Devil by mocking at him. But then some of the bolder shouted 'Blackbeard', and so the more timid chimed in, and in a minute there were a score of voices calling 'Blackbeard, Blackbeard', till the place rang again.
  • * 1919 , (Boris Sidis), :
  • It is instructive for us to learn as well as to ponder on the fact that "the very men who looked down with delight, when the sand of the arena reddened with human blood, made the arena ring with applause when Terence in his famous line: ‘Homo sum, Nihil humani alienum puto’ proclaimed the brotherhood of man."
  • To produce music with bells.
  • (Holder)
  • (dated) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
  • Derived terms
    * ring a bell * ring back * ringer * ringing * ring false * ring off * ring off the hook * ring out * ring someone's bell * ring true * ring up * unring

    Etymology 3

    A shortening of (etyl) ; coined by mathematician in 1892. (Reference: Harvey Cohn, Advanced Number Theory , page 49.)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations, an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
  • The set of integers, \mathbb{Z}, is the prototypical ring .
  • (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
  • The definition of ring without unity allows, for instance, the set 2\mathbb{Z} of even integers to be a ring.
    Hypernyms
    * pseudo-ring * semiring
    Hyponyms
    * commutative ring ** integral domain *** unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain **** principal ideal domain ***** Euclidean domain ****** field
    Derived terms
    * Boolean ring * polynomial ring
    See also
    Image:Latex integers.svg, The ring of integers.

    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

    Anagrams

    * hells