English words for 'Alternative form of tortoise shell bracket.'
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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
- (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
- (biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
- Ellipsis of razor blade.
- (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
- Thin plate, foil.
- (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
- (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade.
- (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
- (athletics, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
- A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
- The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- (archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
- (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
- (uncountable, music) The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
- A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
- (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
- (computing) Ellipsis of blade server.
- (metonymic) A sword or knife.
- (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
- (slang, chiefly US) An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
- The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
- (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- something long and thin resembling a blade of grass
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
- a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
- a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
- especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
- the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
- a dashing young man
- the part of the skate that slides on the ice
- 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
- (zoology) The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
- 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.
- 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
- (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside
- a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest
- the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles
- brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles
- a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings
- Any of several butterflies, mostly of the genera Nymphalis and Aglais that have similar markings.
- The horny, translucent, mottled covering of the carapace of the hawksbill turtle, used as a veneer etc.
- A domestic cat (or a rabbit, guinea-pig, etc.) whose fur has black, brown and yellow markings.
- The hawksbill turtle.
- Anything having the shape of a turtle's back (that is, its shell).
- Any plant of the genus Psathyrotes of annual and perennial forbs and low subshrubs native to dry areas of southwestern North America.
- A primitive stone celt of a form suggesting the back of a turtle.
- (military, nautical) An armor layout with an armored deck which slopes downwards towards the sides of the ship and connects to the lower edge of the main belt armor, designed to deflect shells striking the ship on trajectories close to horizontal.
- A library binding of a mass market paperback with a generic hardcover.
- (nautical) A convex deck at the bow or stern of a vessel, designed to shed seawater quickly.
- burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
- a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
- any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
- burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
- (programming) A Golang programmer.
- A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
- A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
- Alternative spelling of gofer.
- A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
- A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- (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
- (biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
- Ellipsis of razor blade.
- (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
- Thin plate, foil.
- (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
- (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade.
- (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
- (athletics, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
- A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
- The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- (archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
- (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
- (uncountable, music) The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
- A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
- (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
- (computing) Ellipsis of blade server.
- (metonymic) A sword or knife.
- (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
- (slang, chiefly US) An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
- The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
- (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- something long and thin resembling a blade of grass
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
- a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
- a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
- especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
- the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
- a dashing young man
- the part of the skate that slides on the ice
- 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
- (zoology) The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
- 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.
- 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
- (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside
- a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest
- the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles
- brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles
- a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings
- Any of several butterflies, mostly of the genera Nymphalis and Aglais that have similar markings.
- The horny, translucent, mottled covering of the carapace of the hawksbill turtle, used as a veneer etc.
- A domestic cat (or a rabbit, guinea-pig, etc.) whose fur has black, brown and yellow markings.
- The hawksbill turtle.
- Anything having the shape of a turtle's back (that is, its shell).
- Any plant of the genus Psathyrotes of annual and perennial forbs and low subshrubs native to dry areas of southwestern North America.
- A primitive stone celt of a form suggesting the back of a turtle.
- (military, nautical) An armor layout with an armored deck which slopes downwards towards the sides of the ship and connects to the lower edge of the main belt armor, designed to deflect shells striking the ship on trajectories close to horizontal.
- A library binding of a mass market paperback with a generic hardcover.
- (nautical) A convex deck at the bow or stern of a vessel, designed to shed seawater quickly.
- burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
- a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
- any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
- burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
- (programming) A Golang programmer.
- A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
- A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
- Alternative spelling of gofer.
- A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
- A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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