Shell vs Case - What's the difference?

As a proper noun shell

is a diminutive of the female given name michelle .

As a noun case is

(label) abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position.

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

External links

* * * (commonslite)

Anagrams

* hells

case

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cas, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

An actual event, situation, or fact.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

A given condition or state.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.10:

Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace .

A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case . Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}

(label) An instance or event as a topic of study.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost

, volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases , the fossil record.}}

(label) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case , were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}

(label) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.

Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative'' case''', as we see from:
(16) (a) I know [that ''they''/*''them''/*''their'' leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
(16) (b) I demand [that ''they''/*''them''/*''their'' leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assigned ''Objective'' '''case''', as we see from:
(17) I want [''them''/*''they''/*''their'' to leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
And the Subject of a ''gerund'' Clause is assigned either ''Objective'' or ''Genitive'' '''case : cf.
(18) I don't like the idea of [''them''/''their''/*''they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]

Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.

(label) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.

A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.

* 2004 , Rick Miller, C++ for Artists

Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.

* 2011 , Stephen Prata, C++ Primer Plus (page 275)

Execution does not automatically stop at the next case .

Synonyms

* *

Derived terms

* be the case * case study * court case * hard case * in case * just in case * Case

Hyponyms

* See also

Verb

(cas)

(obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.

* L'Estrange

Casing upon the matter.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cas, from .

Noun

(en noun)

A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.

A box, sheath, or covering generally.

a case''' for spectacles; the '''case of a watch

A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.

An enclosing frame or casing.

a door case'''; a window '''case

A suitcase.

A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.

The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.

(printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).

(typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.

(poker slang) Four of a kind.

(US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.

(mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.

(Knight)

Derived terms

* * briefcase * camel case * (noun) * case harden * letter case * lower case * packing case * sentence case * title case * upper case

References

* Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Adjective

(-)

(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.

He drew the case eight!

References

* Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Verb

(cas)

To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.

To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.

* Prescott

The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.

(informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.

* 1977 , (Michael Innes), The Gay Phoenix , ISBN 9780396074427, p. 116:

You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.

* 2014 , (Amy Goodman), From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2) , Democracy Now!, January 8, 2014, 0:49 to 0:57:

Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.

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