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Shelling vs Smelling - What's the difference?

shelling | smelling |

As verbs the difference between shelling and smelling

is that shelling is while smelling is .

As nouns the difference between shelling and smelling

is that shelling is an artillery bombardment while smelling is the act by which something is smelled.

shelling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • An artillery bombardment
  • The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
  • (uncountable) grain from which the husk has been removed
  • (topology)

    • smelling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
    sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)

    Derived terms

    * smelling salts

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is smelled.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings , chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires