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Shelling vs Swelling - What's the difference?

shelling | swelling |

As verbs the difference between shelling and swelling

is that shelling is while swelling is .

As nouns the difference between shelling and swelling

is that shelling is an artillery bombardment while swelling is the state of being swollen.

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)

    • swelling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being swollen.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= a1420 , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge ; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. }}
  • Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.

    • See also

    * edema

    Verb

    (head)