Mots en English pour 'a shell of a scallop'
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noun
- A scallop.
- A thin slice of meat, especially veal, normally shallow-fried.
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
verb
noun
- a dish in the form of a scallop shell
- A scallop shell or a dish shaped like one, especially when used to serve the aforementioned food.
- seafood served in a scallop shell
- A meal, especially a seafood dish, served in an actual scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like a shell.
- A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
noun
- A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
- (cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
- One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
- (cooking, UK, regional, rare) A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
- Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.
- (cooking, UK, Ireland, Australia, regional) A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.
- one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
verb
- form scallops in
- shape or cut in scallops
- decorate an edge with scallops
- fish for scallops
- (transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
- (intransitive) To harvest scallops
- To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
- bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
verb
noun
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- Alternative spelling of scallop.
noun
- the shell of a clam
- The shell of a clam.
- a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with takeout food.
- (music) An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
- A hinged case for a video tape, cassette tape, or video game cartridge.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- (often attributive) Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
verb
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- (manufacturing) To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
noun
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
verb
noun
- The shell of this sea animal.
- Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).
- (architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
- A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
- A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
- any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip
verb
noun
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- 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.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (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.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame 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. 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.
- (weaponry) 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 scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (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.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe
- a clam that is usually steamed in the shell
- a ship powered by one or more steam engines
- a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it
- A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
- (chiefly in the plural, Rhode Island) A steamed clam.
- (British, crime, slang) A member of a youth gang who engages in steaming (robbing and escaping in a large group).
- (cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
- (British, slang) A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
- Clipping of steamer trunk.
- (British, slang) An act of fellatio.
- A steamer duck: any of the four species of the duck genus Tachyeres which are all found in South America, three of which are flightless.
- (British, slang) A prostitute's client.
- A wetsuit with long sleeves and legs.
- (Maine) The soft-shell clam, sand gaper, or long-neck clam (Mya arenaria), an edible saltwater clam; specifically the clam when steamed for eating.
- (British, Scotland, slang) A drinking session.
- A stupid or contemptible person.
- (US, slang) a gambler who increases a wager after losing.
- (nautical) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship.
- A babycino (frothy milk drink).
- (Memphis, hip-hop, slang) A stolen vehicle.
- A gullible or easily cheated person.
- A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing and in various processes of manufacture.
- (horse racing) A racehorse the odds of which are becoming shorter (that is, decreasing) because bettors are backing it.
verb
noun
- A scombroid fish.
- (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
- A rugged range of mountains.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- a Spanish mackerel of western North America
- a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
noun
- A tusk shell.
- A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
- A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).
- A sharp point.
- (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
- One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
- The share of a plough.
- a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
- a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
verb
noun
- A crab that has just molted; a papershell.
- A plant of species Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
- A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
- a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing
verb
adj
noun
- (originally UK) A queen scallop.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one who is effeminate or flaming.
- A female monarch.
- (card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- (rare) A queen apple.
- (chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Ellipsis of queen olive.
- (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
- An excellent woman.
- A girl or woman chosen to preside in an honorary or ceremonial manner over a specified festivity or occasion, as May Queen, Homecoming Queen, prom queen, pearly queen.
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- female cat
verb
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
- (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
- (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
- become a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
noun
adj
noun
- mollusk with a low conical shell
- any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
- (British) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
- Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.
verb
noun
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- (LGBTQ) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
- (entomology, lepidopterology) The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- (botany) The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
- a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
- the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
- hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
verb
- (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
- go along the rim, like a beard around the chin
noun
- flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
- burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
- a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- (slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
- (informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
- A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clams (Spisula solidissima), and other species, possibly originally applied to clams of species Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
- A kind of vise, usually of wood.
- (slang, vulgar) A vagina or vulva.
- (historical, in the plural) A type of strong pincers or forceps.
- (rowing) Alternative form of CLAM.
- clamminess; moisture
- A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
- (US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A dollar.
- (slang, music) A wrong or misplaced note.
verb
noun
- bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant
- having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
- an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers
- A sea onion (Drimia maritima)
- A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean
- A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties
noun
- A scallop.
- A thin slice of meat, especially veal, normally shallow-fried.
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
verb
noun
- a dish in the form of a scallop shell
- A scallop shell or a dish shaped like one, especially when used to serve the aforementioned food.
- seafood served in a scallop shell
- A meal, especially a seafood dish, served in an actual scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like a shell.
- A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
noun
- A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
- (cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
- One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
- (cooking, UK, regional, rare) A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
- Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.
- (cooking, UK, Ireland, Australia, regional) A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.
- one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
verb
- form scallops in
- shape or cut in scallops
- decorate an edge with scallops
- fish for scallops
- (transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
- (intransitive) To harvest scallops
- To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
- bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
noun
- the shell of a clam
- The shell of a clam.
- a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with takeout food.
- (music) An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
- A hinged case for a video tape, cassette tape, or video game cartridge.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- (often attributive) Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
verb
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- (manufacturing) To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
noun
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
verb
noun
- The shell of this sea animal.
- Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”).
- (architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
- A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
- A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
- any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip
verb
noun
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- 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.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (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.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame 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. 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.
- (weaponry) 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 scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (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.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe
- a clam that is usually steamed in the shell
- a ship powered by one or more steam engines
- a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it
- A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
- (chiefly in the plural, Rhode Island) A steamed clam.
- (British, crime, slang) A member of a youth gang who engages in steaming (robbing and escaping in a large group).
- (cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
- (British, slang) A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
- Clipping of steamer trunk.
- (British, slang) An act of fellatio.
- A steamer duck: any of the four species of the duck genus Tachyeres which are all found in South America, three of which are flightless.
- (British, slang) A prostitute's client.
- A wetsuit with long sleeves and legs.
- (Maine) The soft-shell clam, sand gaper, or long-neck clam (Mya arenaria), an edible saltwater clam; specifically the clam when steamed for eating.
- (British, Scotland, slang) A drinking session.
- A stupid or contemptible person.
- (US, slang) a gambler who increases a wager after losing.
- (nautical) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship.
- A babycino (frothy milk drink).
- (Memphis, hip-hop, slang) A stolen vehicle.
- A gullible or easily cheated person.
- A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing and in various processes of manufacture.
- (horse racing) A racehorse the odds of which are becoming shorter (that is, decreasing) because bettors are backing it.
verb
noun
- A scombroid fish.
- (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
- A rugged range of mountains.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- a Spanish mackerel of western North America
- a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
noun
- A tusk shell.
- A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
- A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).
- A sharp point.
- (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
- One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
- The share of a plough.
- a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
- a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
verb
noun
- A crab that has just molted; a papershell.
- A plant of species Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
- A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
- a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing
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adj
noun
- (originally UK) A queen scallop.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one who is effeminate or flaming.
- A female monarch.
- (card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- (rare) A queen apple.
- (chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Ellipsis of queen olive.
- (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
- An excellent woman.
- A girl or woman chosen to preside in an honorary or ceremonial manner over a specified festivity or occasion, as May Queen, Homecoming Queen, prom queen, pearly queen.
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- female cat
verb
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
- (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
- (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
- become a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
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adj
noun
- mollusk with a low conical shell
- any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
- (British) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
- Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.
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noun
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- (slang, originally gambling) A fake customer or companion; an intermediary.
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- One who helps to conceal infidelity in a monogamous relationship by acting as a cover.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- (LGBTQ) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.
- (entomology, lepidopterology) The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- (botany) The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
- a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
- the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
- a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
- tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
- hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
verb
- (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- (intransitive, beekeeping) Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- (LGBTQ, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
- go along the rim, like a beard around the chin
noun
- flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
- burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
- a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- (slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
- (informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
- A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clams (Spisula solidissima), and other species, possibly originally applied to clams of species Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
- A kind of vise, usually of wood.
- (slang, vulgar) A vagina or vulva.
- (historical, in the plural) A type of strong pincers or forceps.
- (rowing) Alternative form of CLAM.
- clamminess; moisture
- A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
- (US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A dollar.
- (slang, music) A wrong or misplaced note.
verb
noun
- bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant
- having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
- an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers
- A sea onion (Drimia maritima)
- A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean
- A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties
noun
- A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
- (cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
- One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
- (cooking, UK, regional, rare) A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
- Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.
- (cooking, UK, Ireland, Australia, regional) A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.
- one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
verb
- form scallops in
- shape or cut in scallops
- decorate an edge with scallops
- fish for scallops
- (transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
- (intransitive) To harvest scallops
- To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
- bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
verb
noun
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- Alternative spelling of scallop.
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