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noun
- The shell itself.
- (cricket, countable) An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
- (basketball, countable) A power forward.
- (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.
- (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- The crew rowing in a four boat.
- A person who is four years old.
- Four o'clock.
- (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
num
adj
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
adj
noun
- A mitre shell
- A gusset in sewing, etc.
- A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe.
- (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.
- A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.
- (geometry, rare) A square with one triangular quarter missing from the outside.
- The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
- the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made
- joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner
- a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions
verb
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
- A shell or other outer protective layer.
- (biology) An outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell.
- (botany) The outer layer of an ovule, which develops into the seed coat.
- an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell
noun
- (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
- (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
- (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
- (colloquial) Clipping of lipstick.
- (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
- (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx
- either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
verb
- (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
- (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
- (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
- (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- (transitive) To utter verbally.
- (transitive, figuratively, of an object) To touch lightly.
- (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
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
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
- 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
noun
- (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside
- the front of man's dress shirt
- a metal breastplate that was worn under a coat of mail
- the ornamental front of a woman's bodice or shirt
- a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest
- A film of air trapped by specialized hairs against the body of an aquatic insect, and which acts as an external gill.
- (fencing) A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
- An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.
- A breastplate.
- A man's shirt-bosom.
- (zoology) The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
noun
- Any shell-shaped structure:
- (architecture) An apse, or the plain semidome of an apse.
- Alternative form of kankar.
- (anatomy) The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone and leading to its central opening.
- Alternative form of concho (“type of ornament”).
- (anatomy) Alternative form of nasal concha.
- (anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape
noun
- The complete set of whorls of a spiral shell.
- A towel wrapped around long wet hair in a manner resembling a turban.
- (clothing) A man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head.
- A woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim.
- a traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head
- a small round woman's hat
verb
adj
- Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; said of a shell.
- Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
- Rough or scaly.
- Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; said of a calyx or stem.
noun
- the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs
- one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods
- control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid
- a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it
- device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone
- (chiefly British) A vacuum tube.
- (biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
- (botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
- (anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction.
- (botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
- (biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
- One of the leaves of a folding door or of a window sash.
- Such a device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
- A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
verb
verb
noun
- lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
- a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
- A processed secretion of the lac insect, Coccus lacca; used in polishes, varnishes etc.
- (informal, US) A beating; a thrashing.
noun
- (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
- (exogeology) Any similar layer in an exoplanet.
- (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
- The zone of hot gases around a flame.
- (heraldry) A mantling.
- A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
- The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
- (geology) The layer between Earth's core and crust.
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
- (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
- A penstock for a water wheel.
- Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”).
- A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
- (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
- (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
- anything that covers
- the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
- the cloak as a symbol of authority
- a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
verb
- (intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
- (falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.
- To climb over or onto something.
- (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
- (falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
- (intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
- spread over a surface, like a mantle
- cover like a mantle
noun
- A spiral-shaped shell, especially that of a snail.
- (anatomy) The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear of higher vertebrates, which contains the organ of Corti and in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
- the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti
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
adj
noun
- The shell itself.
- (cricket, countable) An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
- (basketball, countable) A power forward.
- (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.
- (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- The crew rowing in a four boat.
- A person who is four years old.
- Four o'clock.
- (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
num
adj
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
adj
noun
- A mitre shell
- A gusset in sewing, etc.
- A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe.
- (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.
- A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.
- (geometry, rare) A square with one triangular quarter missing from the outside.
- The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
- the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made
- joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner
- a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions
verb
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
- A shell or other outer protective layer.
- (biology) An outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell.
- (botany) The outer layer of an ovule, which develops into the seed coat.
- an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell
noun
- (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
- (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
- (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
- (colloquial) Clipping of lipstick.
- (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
- (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx
- either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
- the top edge of a vessel or other container
verb
- (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
- (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
- (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
- (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- (transitive) To utter verbally.
- (transitive, figuratively, of an object) To touch lightly.
- (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
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
- (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside
- the front of man's dress shirt
- a metal breastplate that was worn under a coat of mail
- the ornamental front of a woman's bodice or shirt
- a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest
- A film of air trapped by specialized hairs against the body of an aquatic insect, and which acts as an external gill.
- (fencing) A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
- An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.
- A breastplate.
- A man's shirt-bosom.
- (zoology) The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
noun
- Any shell-shaped structure:
- (architecture) An apse, or the plain semidome of an apse.
- Alternative form of kankar.
- (anatomy) The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone and leading to its central opening.
- Alternative form of concho (“type of ornament”).
- (anatomy) Alternative form of nasal concha.
- (anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape
noun
- The complete set of whorls of a spiral shell.
- A towel wrapped around long wet hair in a manner resembling a turban.
- (clothing) A man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head.
- A woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim.
- a traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head
- a small round woman's hat
verb
noun
- the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs
- one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods
- control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid
- a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it
- device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone
- (chiefly British) A vacuum tube.
- (biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
- (botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
- (anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction.
- (botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
- (biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
- One of the leaves of a folding door or of a window sash.
- Such a device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
- A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
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- (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
- (exogeology) Any similar layer in an exoplanet.
- (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
- The zone of hot gases around a flame.
- (heraldry) A mantling.
- A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
- The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
- (geology) The layer between Earth's core and crust.
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
- (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
- A penstock for a water wheel.
- Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”).
- A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
- (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
- (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
- anything that covers
- the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
- the cloak as a symbol of authority
- a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
verb
- (intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
- (falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.
- To climb over or onto something.
- (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
- (falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
- (intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
- spread over a surface, like a mantle
- cover like a mantle
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- A spiral-shaped shell, especially that of a snail.
- (anatomy) The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear of higher vertebrates, which contains the organ of Corti and in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
- the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti
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- (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
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- 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
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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- 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
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- (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
- 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
noun
- lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
- a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
- A processed secretion of the lac insect, Coccus lacca; used in polishes, varnishes etc.
- (informal, US) A beating; a thrashing.
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- Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; said of a shell.
- Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
- Rough or scaly.
- Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; said of a calyx or stem.