Shell vs. Bombard
Difference Between Shell and Bombard
Shellnoun
A hard external covering of an animal.
Bombardnoun
a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
Shellnoun
The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
In some mollusks, as the cuttlefish, the shell is concealed by the animal's outer mantle and is considered internal.Genuine mother-of-pearl buttons are made from sea shells.Bombardnoun
(obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument
Shellnoun
(by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
Bombardnoun
(obsolete) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
Shellnoun
(entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
Bombardnoun
A bombardment.
Shellnoun
The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
Bombardnoun
(music) A bombardon.
Shellnoun
The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
Bombardverb
To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
The enemy's stronghold was bombarded for 3 hours straight.Shellnoun
The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
Bombardverb
(figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
Shellnoun
One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
The restaurant served caramelized onion shells.Bombardverb
(figuratively) To continuously send or direct (at someone)
I was bombarded with WhatsApp messages after appearing on the news.Please don't bombard me with questions right now, I'll answer them at the end of the statement.Shellnoun
(botany) The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
Bombardverb
(physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
Shellnoun
The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
The black walnut and the hickory nut, both of the same Genus as the pecan, have much thicker and harder shells than the pecan.Bombardnoun
a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family
Shellnoun
A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
Bombardverb
cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile;
They pelted each other with snowballsShellnoun
(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.
Bombardverb
throw bombs at or attack with bombs;
The Americans bombed DresdenShellnoun
(geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
Shellnoun
(weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
Shellnoun
(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 scattered at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
Shellnoun
(weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
Shellnoun
(architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
Shellnoun
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.
Shellnoun
A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
Shellnoun
(music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.Shellnoun
(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.
Shellnoun
An engraved copper roller used in print works.
Shellnoun
(nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
Shellnoun
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
Shellnoun
(nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
Shellnoun
(computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter.
The name shell originates from it being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the internals of the operating system.The name "Bash" is an acronym which stands for "Bourne-again shell", itself a pun on the name of the "Bourne shell", an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen Bourne, and the Christian concept of being "born again".Shellnoun
(chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
Shellnoun
An emaciated person.
He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self.Shellnoun
A psychological barrier to social interaction.
Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell.Shellnoun
(business) A legal entity that has no operations.
A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.Shellnoun
A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
Shellnoun
(engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
Shellnoun
(phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
Shellverb
To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
Shellverb
To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
Shellverb
(informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
Shellverb
(intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
Shellverb
(intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
Nuts shell in falling.Wheat or rye shells in reaping.Shellverb
To switch to a shell or command line.
Shellverb
To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
Shellverb
(topology) To form a shelling.
Shellnoun
ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
Shellnoun
the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
Shellnoun
hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
Shellnoun
the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
Shellnoun
the exterior covering of a bird's egg
Shellnoun
a rigid covering that envelops an object;
the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of iceShellnoun
a very light narrow racing boat
Shellnoun
the housing or outer covering of something;
the clock has a walnut caseShellnoun
a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
Shellnoun
the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc
Shellverb
use explosives on;
The enemy has been shelling us all dayShellverb
fall out of the pod or husk;
The corn shelledShellverb
hit the pitches of hard and regularly;
He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inningShellverb
look for and collect shells by the seashore
Shellverb
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championshipWe beat the competitionHarvard defeated Yale in the last football gameShellverb
remove from its shell or outer covering;
shell the legumesshell musselsShellverb
remove the husks from;
husk corn
