Shell vs Cell - What's the difference?
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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)
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
* 1858 , (Asa Gray), Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany , fifth edition, p. 282:
(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch.XVI:
A section or compartment of a larger structure.
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* 1810 , (Walter Scott), Lady of the Lake , II:
A room in a prison for one or more inmates.
A device which stores electrical]] power; used either singly or together in [[battery, batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
(biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
* 1999 , Paul Brown & Dave King, The Guardian , 15 Feb 1999:
* 2011 , Terence Allen & Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 3:
(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
(communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in .
(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
(architecture) A cella.
(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins
In entomology terms the difference between shell and cell
is that shell is the exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects while cell is an area of an insect wing bounded by veins.In computing terms the difference between shell and cell
is that shell is an operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter while cell is the minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.As nouns the difference between shell and cell
is that shell is a hard external covering of an animal while cell is a single-room dwelling for a hermit.As verbs the difference between shell and cell
is that shell is to remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller while cell is to place or enclose in a cell.As a proper noun Shell
is a diminutive of the female given name Michelle.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.
Derived terms
* shell outExternal links
* * * (commonslite)Anagrams
* hellscell
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) , later reinforced by (etyl) cel, (sele), (etyl) cele.Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia cell)- So, taking them apart into his cell , / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].
- Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell .
- Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom.
- From cell' to ' cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.
- Thou seest but the order and policie of this little Cell .
- Not long shall honour'd Douglas dwell, / Like hunted stag, in mountain-cell .
- The combatants spent the night in separate cells .
- This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells .
- An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.
- In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.
- There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
- The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
- Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
- Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells .
- I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
