Shell vs Skin - 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.
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(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
(countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
(countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
(countable, computing) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
(countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
(countable, slang)
(Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual?s physical skin''. 1994 , ''Macquarie Aboriginal Words , , paperback ISBN 0-949757-79-9, Introduction.
(countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game.
(slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
* Tennyson
(nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
(nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
To injure the skin of.
To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
(colloquial) To high five.
(transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
(UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
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To become covered with skin.
To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
* Shakespeare
(US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
(slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
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In lang=en terms the difference between shell and skin
is that shell is 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 while skin is bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.In nautical terms the difference between shell and skin
is that shell is a light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat while skin is the covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.In intransitive terms the difference between shell and skin
is that shell is to cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk while skin is to become covered with skin.As nouns the difference between shell and skin
is that shell is a hard external covering of an animal while skin is the outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.As verbs the difference between shell and skin
is that shell is to remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller while skin is to injure the skin of.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
* hellsskin
English
(wikipedia skin)Noun
- He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
- In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you?ll have to remove the skin floating on top of it.
- You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
- Pass me a skin , mate.
- Let me see a bit of skin .
- skins of wine
- (Totten)
Synonyms
* (outer covering of living tissue) dermis, integument, tegument * (outer protective layer of a plant or animal) peel (of fruit or vegetable), pericarp * (skin of an animal used by humans) hide, pelt * (congealed layer on the surface of a liquid) film * (subgroup of Australian Aboriginals) moiety, section, subsectionDerived terms
* banana skin * buckskin * by the skin of one's teeth * calfskin * cleanskin * comfortable in one's own skin * deerskin * doeskin * get under someone's skin * give some skin to * goatskin * goose skin * it's no skin off my back * jump in one's skin * lambskin * loinskin * make one's skin crawl * moleskin * no skin off my nose * pigskin * sealskin * second skin * sharkskin * sheepskin * shirts and skins * skin and bone, skin and bones * skin cancer * skin care, skincare * skin cell * skin cream * skin-deep * skin disease * skin effect * skin flick * skinflint * skin flute * skinfold * skinful * skin graft * skinhead * skin in the game * skinless * skin movie * skin type * snakeskin * waterskin * wineskinSee also
* cutaneous * cutis * dermis * epidermisVerb
(skinn)- He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
- Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
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- A wound eventually skins over.
- It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.