Shell vs Shake - 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)
(ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Bunyan) (1628-1688)
To disturb emotionally; to shock.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
To move from side to side.
*, chapter=23
, title= To shake hands.
To dance.
To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
The act of shaking something.
A milkshake.
A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
(building material) A thin shingle.
A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
A fissure in rock or earth.
(informal) Instant, second. (Especially (in two shakes).)
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(nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
(music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
A shook of staves and headings.
(UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
(Webster 1913)
As a proper noun shell
is a diminutive of the female given name michelle .As a verb shake is
(ergative) to cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.As a noun shake is
the act of shaking something.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
* hellsshake
English
(wikipedia shake)Verb
citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
- Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
- I could scarcely shake him out of my company.
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.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking .}}
Derived terms
* more than one can shake a stick at * shake a leg * shake and bake, shake 'n bake * shake hands * shake off * shake one's ass * shake one's head * shake on it * shake the pagoda tree * shake upNoun
(en noun)- The cat gave the mouse a shake .
- (Totten)
- (Knight)