[ { "word": "shell", "phonetic": "/\u0283\u025bl/", "phonetics": [ { "text": "/\u0283\u025bl/", "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/shell-us.mp3", "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2100850", "license": { "name": "BY-SA 3.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" } } ], "meanings": [ { "partOfSpeech": "noun", "definitions": [ { "definition": "A hard external covering of an animal.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "The restaurant served caramelized onion shells." }, { "definition": "The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "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.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "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.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell." }, { "definition": "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.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "An engraved copper roller used in print works.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "(rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "The outward form independent of what is inside.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "The empty outward form of someone or something.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "The setback left him a mere shell; he was never the same again." }, { "definition": "An emaciated person.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self." }, { "definition": "A psychological barrier to social interaction.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell." }, { "definition": "An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "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\"." }, { "definition": "A legal entity that has no operations.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory." }, { "definition": "A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "A gouge bit or shell bit.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "The onset and coda of a syllable.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "A person's ear.", "synonyms": [ "shell-like" ], "antonyms": [], "example": "Can I have a quick word in your shell?" } ], "synonyms": [ "shell-like" ], "antonyms": [] }, { "partOfSpeech": "verb", "definitions": [ { "definition": "To remove the outer covering or shell of something.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [], "example": "Nuts shell in falling." }, { "definition": "To switch to a shell or command line.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] }, { "definition": "To form a shelling.", "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] } ], "synonyms": [], "antonyms": [] } ], "license": { "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" }, "sourceUrls": [ "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shell" ] } ]