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"SHELLS" is a plural of: shell. |
Date "SHELLS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To walk among and gather shells in your dream, denotes extravagance. Pleasure will leave you naught but exasperating regrets and memories. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Shells on churches, tombstones, and used by pilgrims: (1) If dedicated to James the Greater, the scallop-shell is his recognised emblem. (See James.) If not, the allusion is to the vocation of the apostles generally, who were fishermen, and Christ said He would make them "fishers of men." (2) On tombstones, the allusion is to the earthly body left behind, which is the mere shell of the immortal soul. (3) Carried by pilgrims, the allusion may possibly be to James the Greater, the patron saint of pilgrims, but more likely it originally arose as a convenient drinking-cup, and hence the pilgrims of Japan carry scallop shells. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The hard, rigid outer calcium carbonate covering of certain animals is called a shell. While many animals, particularly those that live in the sea, produce exoskeletons, usually only those of mollusks are considered to be shells.
Shells are very durable, and outlast the otherwise soft-bodied animals that produce them by a long time. Large amounts of shells may form sediment and become compressed into limestone. Shells that wash up on beaches are called seashells, and are collected by some enthusiasts.
Related topics
- Carapace
- Exoskeleton
- Coral
- Shell (material)
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Generally, shells are large rounds fired out of either artillery or armored fighting vehicles (including tanks). Also, warships, such as battleships, fire shells.Most shells are roughly bullet shaped - that is, a cylinder topped by an ogive shaped nose, possibly with a tapering base - but some specialised types are quite different.
= Calibres = The calibre caliber of a shell is its diameter. This is normally measured in millimetres even in the USA, although it is occasionally given in centimetres in some European countries, or even in inches for some naval guns.
The smallest shells are 20 mm calibre, used in aircraft cannon and some light armoured vehicles. The largest shells ever fired were those from the German super-railway guns, Gustav and Dora, which were 800 mm ( 31.5") in calibre.
Such large shells have been largely obsoleted by guided missiles, and today shells larger than 155 mm are rare.
Some common shell calibres (all in mm) include 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 76, 84, 105, 120, 127, and 155.
Old style calibres
Historically, shells were often described in pounds. Usually this refers to the actual weight of an HE shell, but for maximum confusion this is not always the case. Some were named after the weights of obsolete shell types of the same calibre, or even obsolete shell types that were considered to have been functionally equivalent. Also non-HE shells fired from the same gun, but usually actually different in weight, were given the same poundage. Thus to convert from "pounds" to mm requires consulting a detailed historical reference. = Types = There are many different types of shells. The principle ones include:High Explosive (HE)
The most common shell type is high explosive, commonly referred to simply as HE. HE shells have a strong steel case, a bursting charge, and a fuze. When the fuze initiates the shell, the bursting charge shatters the case and scatters hot, sharp fragments of steel at high speed. Most of the damage is caused by being struck by these fragments, rather than directly by the blast. The fuze on an HE shell can usually be set to burst on the ground, in the air above the ground (to scatter fragments behind cover), or after penetrating a short distance into the ground (either to transmit more ground shock to covered positions, or to reduce the spread of fragments).Armour-piercing (AP)
In naval warfare and older anti-tank shells, the shell had to withstand the shock of punching through armour plate. Shells designed for this purpose had a greatly strengthened case with a specially hardened and shaped nose, and a much smaller bursting charge. Some smaller calibre AP shells had no bursting charge at all. Plain AP shell is now very rarely seen except in naval usage, and is less common even there. See also: Armor-piercing shot and shell
Armour-piercing, Discarding Sabot (APDS)
APDS extends the concept of AP by carrying a sub-calibre (i.e., smaller than the gun barrel) projectile in a light alloy "sabot" which fills up the rest of the barrel. (After emerging from the barrel, the sabot is stripped off by a combination of centripetal force and wind.) This enables the projectile to reach much higher velocities, increasing its penetrating power. To withstand the greater shock of impact, and increase density for greater penetration, the projectile is usually made from tungsten.A further refinement of the same concept is Armour-piercing, Discarding Sabot, Fin Stabilised. In this the projectile is made long and thin to increase its sectional density and thus penetration. However once a projectile is more than about ten times longer than it is wide, spin stabilisation becomes ineffective, so the projectile is instead stabilised by fins attached at its base. Thus, an APFSDS projectile looks like a big metal arrow! APFSDS projectiles are sometimes made from tungsten, but the most effective types are made from depleted uranium.
High Explosive, Anti-Tank (HEAT)
HEAT shells are a type of shaped charge used to defeat armoured vehicles. They are extremely efficient at defeating plain steel armour but are becoming less useful with the growing prevalence of reactive armour. Because a HEAT charge is best detonated at a certain optimal distance in front of the target, HEAT shells are usually distinguished by a long, thin nose probe sticking out in front of the rest of the shell.High Explosive, Squash Head (HESH) or High Explosive, Plastic (HEP)
A HESH shell is another anti-tank shell. It is has a very thin case, and an unusually large charge of a plastic explosive. It is designed to flatten against the face of the armour, and detonate at the time that transfers the maximum shock into the armour plate. When the compressive shock reflects off the air/metal interface inside the tank, it is transformed into a tension wave which spalls a "scab" of metal off the inside of the plate and throws it into the tank. Thus a HESH shell can defeat a tank even without penetrating the armour.HESH is completely defeated by spaced armour (provided that the plates are individually able to withstand the explosion), but remains popular in some armed forces because vehicles without spaced armour are still common, and it is also the most efficient shell at demolishing brick and concrete.
Artillery delivered mines
A type of carrier shell which scatters landmines to create an instant minefield at a remote location. Signatories of the Ottawa treaty have renounced these shells.Chemical
Chemical shells contain just a small explosive charge to burst the shell, and a larger quantity of a chemical weapon. Signatories of the Chemical Weapons Convention have renounced such shells.Non-lethal shells
Not all shells are designed to kill or destroy. The following three types are designed to achive particular non-lethal effects on the battlefield. They are not completely harmless, however; smoke and illumination shells can accidentally start fires, while all three types can cause minor damage (or potentially kill) if property or a person is unlucky enough to be struck by the discarded carrrier.Smoke
The smoke shell is designed to create a smoke screen. The main types are bursting (usually filled with white phosphorus) and base ejection (a particular type of carrier shell, which scatters specialised smoke grenades).Illumination
Another non-lethal shell type is illumination. An illumination shell has a fuze which ejects the "candle" (a pyrotechnic flare emitting white, coloured, or infrared light) at a calculated altitude, where it slowly drifts down beneath a heat resistant parachute.Carrier
The carrier shell is simply a hollow carrier equipped with a fuze which ejects the contents at a calculated time. They are often filled with propaganda leaflets, but can be filled with anything that meets the weight restrictions and is able to withstand the shock of firing. = Unexploded shells = The fuze of a shell has to keep the shell safe from accidental detonation during storage, (possibly rough) handling, and violent launch through the barrel, then reliably detonate it at the correct time. To do this it has a number of safety mechanisms which are successively withdrawn under the influence of the sequence of firing.Sometimes, one of these safety mechanisms is not disabled during the shell's flight, and the shell fails to detonate on impact. Such a shell is called a blind or UXO. (An older term, "dud", is discouraged because it implies that the shell cannot detonate). Blind shells often litter old battlefields (sometimes burrowed a short distance into the earth), and are extremely hazardous. For example, there is at least one type of blind which can be detonated by a shadow passing across it on a hot day, and most types can potentially be detonated by even a small movement.
If a blind shell is discovered, it should be avoided, other people warned of its presence, and it should be reported to the local police or armed forces for safe destruction.
=History=
Explosive shells do not appear to have been in general use before the middle of the 16th century. About that time hollow balls of stone or cast iron were fired from mortars. The balls were nearly filled with gunpowder and the remaining space with a slow-burning composition. This method was fairly ineffective as the charge was not always ignited by the flash from the discharge of the gun, and moreover the amount of composition to burn a stipulated time could not easily be gauged.
The shell was, therefore, fitted with a hollow forged iron or copper plug, filled with slow-burning powder. It was impossible to ignite with certainty this primitive fuze simply by firing the gun; the fuze was consequently first ignited and the gun fired immediately afterwards. This entailed the use of a mortar or a very short piece, so that the fuze could be easily reached from the muzzle without unduly endangering the gunner. Cast-iron spherical common shell were in use up to 1871. For guns they were latterly fitted with a wooden disc called a sabot, attached by a copper rivet, intended to keep the fuze central when loading. They were also supposed to reduce the rebounding tendency of the shell as it travelled along the bore on discharge. Mortar shell were not fitted with sabots.
Cast iron held its own as the most convenient material for projectiles up to the end of the 19th century, steel supplanting it, first for projectiles intended for piercing armour, and afterwards for common shell for high-velocity guns where the shock of discharge has been found too severe for cast iron.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shell (weapon)."
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The Unix shell, also called the command line, is the traditional user interface for the Unix operating system. Users direct the operation of the computer by entering command input as text for the shell to execute. Within the Microsoft Windows suite of operating systems the equivalent program is command.com.
The most generic sense of the term shell means any program that users use to type commands; it is called a "shell" because it hides the details of the underlying operating system behind the shell's interface. Similarly, graphical user interfaces for Unix, such as GNOME and KDE, are sometimes called visual shells or graphical shells. By itself, the term shell is usually associated with the command line. In Unix, any program can be the user's shell; users who want to use a different syntax for typing commands can specify a different program as their shell.
The term shell also refers to a particular program, namely the Bourne shell. The Bourne shell was the shell used in early versions of Unix and became a de facto standard; every Unix-like system has the equivalent of the Bourne shell. The Bourne shell program is called sh and is located in the UNIX file hierarchy at /bin/sh. On some systems, such as BSD, /bin/sh is a Bourne shell or equivalent, but on other systems such as Linux, /bin/sh is likely to be a link to a compatible, but more feature-rich shell, such as bash.
The Unix shell is unusual since it is in both an interactive command language and the language used to script the system; it is a scripting programming language.
On systems using a windowing system, naive users may never use the shell directly. Many regular users of a UNIX system still find a modern shell much more convenient for many tasks than any GUI application.
Unix shells
- Almquist shell (ash)
- Bourne shell (sh)
- Bourne-Again shell (bash)
- C shell (csh)
- scsh (Scheme Shell)
- TENEX C shell (tcsh)
- Korn shell (ksh)
- rc shell (rc)
- Z shell (zsh)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "UNIX shell."
Synonym: SHELLSSynonym: Seashells. (additional references) |
Crosswords: SHELLS |
| Specialty definitions using "SHELLS": Cockle Shells, CRAB SHELLS ♦ Oyster Shells. (references) |
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Screenplays | Pish posh, Schindler and I are like peas in a pod we both made shells for the Germans its just that mine worked (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Excuse me, I ain't walkin on egg shells just cause you brought the Brady Bunch to the negro club (Save the Last Dance; writing credit: Duane Adler) And who supplied the Serb cluster bombs, the Croatian tanks, the Muslim artillery shells that killed our sons and daughters (The Peacemaker; writing credit: Leslie Cockburn; Andrew Cockburn) These shells, the music box and the reflecting glass (Waterworld; writing credit: Peter Rader; David Twohy) | |
Lyrics | We'll drink tequila and look for sea shells. (Jessie; performing artist: Joshua Kadison) Whoever wanna be hard headed then find out what the shells do (Put Ya Hands Up; performing artist: KISS) | |
Tongue Twisters | She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shells and Shivers (1917) Sea Shells (1995) The Making of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles': Behind the Shells (1991) | |
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 | Transmission electron micrograph of reovirus type 3. Both inner and outer capsid shells are present. Some virions are penetrated by negative stain. Credit: CDC. |  | Low tide along South Carolina shoreline with sea shells. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Oyster setting tanks at the University of Maryland Horn Point Environmental Laboratory on the Choptank River. Used by the Oyster Recovery Partnership, oyster larvae are placed in these tanks for two days, allowing them to set on shells where they stay and continue to grow for the rest of their lives. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Eroded cliffs along the Tred Avon River reveal buried piles of oyster shells. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A dredge haul including live clams and empty shells. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Oyster shells are recycled by planting them on soft muddy bottom. This gives a firm surface for the attachment of young oysters and helps provide larger crops. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A close up view of quahogs after being harvested. The shells are covered in mud but still display a beautiful rich hue. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A typical invertebrate grouping found on the interior roof of the pipes consisting primarily of bryozoa, tunicates and sponges over the top of oyster shells. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Bamboo oyster-culture rafts for Japanese oyster Crassotrea gigas. Ca. 1972. Scallop shell used for cultch for suspended oyster culture. Lines of shells called ren and are suspended from the bamboo rafts. Credit: Small World. |  | The hearty flavor of corn flour products like tortillas and taco shells is largely the work of a natural compound identified by ARS scientists. They have pinpointed 2-amino-acetophenone as key to flavor and aroma of yellow corn tortilla flour. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| "Shells" by Marlon Bruin Commentary: "Free to use." | "Conch Shells" by Shawn Sutherland Commentary: "Sea shells for sale at a tourist trap in Florida." |
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh | One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Again, if he would give his nuts for a piece of metal, pleased with its colour; or exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparkling pebble or a diamond, and keep those by him all his life he invaded not the right of others, he might heap up as much of these durable things as he pleased; the exceeding of the bounds of his just property not lying in the largeness of his possession, but the perishing of any thing uselesly in it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Munitions (cartridges, shells, bombs loaded or unloaded, stocks of explosives or of material for their manufacture). (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This heap of oyster shells, which they call a library, disgusts me to think of. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | His hands were hard, with broad fingers and nails as thick and ridged as little clam shells. |
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Health | Unlike eggborne salmonellosis of past decades, the current epidemic is due to intact and disinfected grade A eggs. Salmonella enteritidis silently infects the ovaries of healthy appearing hens and contaminates the eggs before the shells are formed. (references) | |
Stringent procedures for cleaning and inspecting eggs were implemented in the 1970s and have made salmonellosis caused by external fecal contamination of egg shells extremely rare. However, unlike eggborne salmonellosis of past decades, the current epidemic is due to intact and disinfected grade A eggs. The reason for this is that Salmonella enteritidis silently infects the ovaries of healthy appearing hens and contaminates the eggs before the shells are formed. (references) | ||
Business | The state-run China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSC) is capable of R&D, design, manufacture, assembly, and testing of shells of military ships. (references) | |
Economic History | Lebanon | Several Israeli shells struck the compound, killing 102 civilians sheltered there. (references) |
Micronesia | Manufacturing activity is modest, consisting mainly of a garment factory in Yap and production of buttons from trochus shells. (references) | |
Papua New Guinea | They traded along the coast, where products mainly were pottery, shell ornaments, and foodstuffs, and in the interior, where forest products were exchanged for shells and other sea products. (references) | |
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | The IDF had fired two flechette tank shells, and one armor-piercing tank round at the tent after hearing distant light gunfire. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | Israeli forces fired tank shells, heavy machine-gun rounds, and rockets from helicopters and F-16s at targets in residential and business neighborhoods located near the sites from which the Palestinian gunfire was believed to have originated. (references) | |
India | In one incident in June, police fired teargas shells into a crowd of more than 10,000 demonstrators who were protesting the extension of the Naga ceasefire beyond Nagaland's borders at Nambol in Bishnupur distict of Manipur; police also attacked demonstrators with batons. (references) | |
Trade | Mauritius | Products requiring export licenses include sugar, tea, vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, textiles, pharmaceuticals, gold, live animals, corals, and shells. (references) |
Sri Lanka | There are no export controls other than on the following four categories of exports: coral chunk and shells; wood and articles of wood; ivory; and antiques over 50 years old, including antique motor vehicles. (references) | |
Jamaica | These include ammunition, crocodiles, crocodile eggs, eggs, antique furniture, gold bullion and fully or semi-manufactured gold, minerals and metals including bauxite, alumina, gypsum, antique paintings, pimento, sugar, plasma, lignum vitae and log wood, petroleum products, motor vehicles (including bodies and auto parts) as well as live animals and shells subject to the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) administered by National Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) in Jamaica. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor. P |
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Martha Stewart | That they've created entire rooms out of things like pine scales. Entire rooms. And I went to a place in England where there was a grotto that is completely encrusted with shells. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We saw children playing in the streets, where two years ago they were hiding from snipers and shells. |
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| "SHELLS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.62% of the time. "SHELLS" is used about 739 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 96.62% | 714 | 9,404 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.38% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 739 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "SHELLS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shells | Last name | 200 | 39,242 |
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| USA | Shells Seafood Restaurants, Inc. |
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Expressions using "SHELLS": cameo shells ♦ Cocoa shells ♦ conch shells. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "SHELLS": shells-indeed, shells-see, shells-some, shells-which. | |
Ending with "SHELLS": egg-shells, sea-shells, sub-shells. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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cyrus shells.net | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "SHELLS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | strikkede delemner af uld/bomuld (knitted shells of wool/cotton), sømløse trykflasker af stål (steel pressure-resistant shells of seamless cylinders), ventiler og fittings paa boreplatforme og tankvaegge samt bunden i tanke boer vaere af sttal,og hvis de ikke er af en type med skruehane,boer de omfatte en indikatoranordning,der tydeligt viser,hvorvidt ventillen er aaben eller lukket (if not of the rising spindle type, should emboly an indicator to mark clearly whether the valve is open or closed, tank shells and the bottoms of tanks should be of steel and, valves and fittings on platforms), tæppemusling-slægt (carpet shells), radarudstyr til naertaendsatser for granater (radar device for proximity fuses of shells), muslingeskaller (oyster shells), knuste østersskaller (crushed oyster shells), knivmusling-familien (knife clams, razor clam, razor clams, razor shell, razor shells), kakaoskaller (cocoa shells), østersskaller (oyster shells). (various references) | |
Dutch | tapijtschelpsoorten (carpet shells), radarapparatuur voor ontstekingsbuizen van granaten (radar device for proximity fuses of shells), mosselschelpen (oyster shells), messenscheden (knife clams, razor clams, razor shells), messcheden (knife clams, razor clam, razor clams, razor shell, razor shells), kleppen en appendages op platforms,en aan de wanden en op de bodems van tanks,oeten van staal zijn,en voor zover niet van het stijgende spiltype,moeten ze van een aanwijzer zijn voorzien die duidelijk aangeeft of de klep open of dicht is (if not of the rising spindle type, should emboly an indicator to mark clearly whether the valve is open or closed, tank shells and the bottoms of tanks should be of steel and, valves and fittings on platforms), het stalen drukhoudende gedeelte van naadloze gasflessen (steel pressure-resistant shells of seamless cylinders), glas in schalen (glass in shells), gemalen oesterschelpen (crushed oyster shells), cacaodop (cocoa shells). (various references) | |
Finnish | venussimpukka-suku (carpet shells), veitsisimpukat-heimo (knife clams, razor clams, razor shells), veitsisimpukat (knife clams, razor clams, razor shells), osterinkuoret (oyster shells). (various references) | |
French | solens (razor shell, razor shells), verre en coquilles (glass in shells), radar de fusées d'obus de proximité (radar device for proximity fuses of shells), les vannes et accessoires sur plates-formes,les parois des réservoirs ou capacités,ainsi que les fonds des citernes devront être en acier et,s'ils ne sont pas d'un type à tige montante,devront comporter un témoin indicateur,désignant clairement la p (should emboly an indicator to mark clearly whether the valve is open or closed, tank shells and the bottoms of tanks should be of steel and), enveloppes de résistance en acier des bouteilles sans soudure (steel pressure-resistant shells of seamless cylinders), couteaux (razor shell, razor shells), coquilles d'huîtres (oyster shells), coquillages broyés (crushed oyster shells), coques de cacao (cocoa shells), clovisses (carpet shells). (various references) | |
German | Schalen (bowls, parings, peelings, scrapings), Granaten. (various references) | |
Greek | κάλυκες. (various references) | |
Italian | vongole (carpet shells), vetro in conchiglie (glass in shells), radar di razzi di obici di prossimità (radar device for proximity fuses of shells), manicai (knife clams, razor clam, razor clams, razor shell, razor shells), le valvole e gli accessori sulle piattaforme,il fasciame e il fondo dei serbatoi dovrebbero essere in acciaio e,se non sono del tipo a stelo saliente,dovrebbero incorporare un indicatore,per segnalare chiaramente se una valvola è aperta o chiusa (if not of the rising spindle type, should emboly an indicator to mark clearly whether the valve is open or closed, tank shells and the bottoms of tanks should be of steel and, valves and fittings on platforms), involucri di resistenza in acciaio delle bombole senza saldatura (steel pressure-resistant shells of seamless cylinders), gusci d'ostrica (oyster shells), gusci di cacao (cocoa shells), conchiglie triturate (crushed oyster shells), cappelunghe (knife clams, razor clam, razor clams, razor shell, razor shells), cannolicchi (knife clams, razor clam, razor clams, razor shell, razor shells). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 砲煙弾雨 (the smoke of guns and a rain of bullets or shells), 実射 (firing live shells). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほうえんだんう (the smoke of guns and a rain of bullets or shells), じっしゃ (firing live shells, full-scale car, occupied taxi, on-the-spot filming or photography). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ellsshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vidro em conchas (glass in shells), radar de espoletas de granadas de proximidade (radar device for proximity fuses of shells), navalhas (razors), longueirões (knife clams, razor clams, razor shells), lingueirões (knife clams, razor clams, razor shells), invólucros de aço das garrafas sem soldadura (steel pressure-resistant shells of seamless cylinders), facas (knife clams, razor clam, razor clams, razor shell, razor shells), conchas trituradas (crushed oyster shells), conchas de ostras (oyster shells), casca de cacau (cocoa shells), canivetes (knife clams, razor clam, razor clams, razor shell, razor shells), amêijoas (carpet shells). (various references) | |
Russian | оболочка (capsule, coat, cover, covering, envelope, film, involucre, membrane, sheath, shell, skin, tegument). (various references) | |
Spanish | vidrio en semicilindros (glass in shells), revestimientos de resistencia de acero de las botellas sin soldaduras (steel pressure-resistant shells of seamless cylinders), radar de cohete proyectil llamado de proximidad. (radar device for proximity fuses of shells), navajas (knife clams, razor clam, razor clams, razor shell, razor shells), las valvulas y accesorios sobre las plataformas asi como las paredes y fondos de los depositos deben ser de acero y si no se utilizan valvulas de tipo husillo ascendente deberan llevar un indicad or que señale claramente si la valvula esta abierta o cerr (if not of the rising spindle type, should emboly an indicator to mark clearly whether the valve is open or closed, tank shells and the bottoms of tanks should be of steel and, valves and fittings on platforms), conchilla de ostra (oyster shells), conchas trituradas (crushed oyster shells), cascarilla de cacao (cocoa shells), almejas (mussels). (various references) | |
Swedish | skal (coat, hull, husk, integument, jacket, parings, Peel, peeling, peelings, rind, shell, shuck, skin). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Solenidae, Tapes spp. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SHELLS": shellshocked. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "SHELLS": bombshells, clamshells, cockleshells, eggshells, lampshells, nutshells, seashells, softshells, subshells, tortoiseshells, unshells. (additional references) | |
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"SHELLS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dhells, shalls, shauls, shel, Shelest, shelfs, shelk, shelle, shelless, Shelli, Shello, shelp, Shiells, Shulz, skells, skels, whells. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SHELLS" (pronounced she"lz) |
| 3 | -e" l z | belles, bells, bels, cartels, cells, cels, compels, dispels, dwells, ells, Els, excels, farewells, fells, gazelles, gels, hotels, lapels, materiels, motels, organelles, outsells, pastels, propels, repels, resells, sells, smells, spells, swells, tells, Wells, yells. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-l-s-s" | |
-1 letter: hells, sells, shell. | |
-2 letters: ells, hell, less, sell, sels, shes. | |
-3 letters: ell, els, ess, hes, sel, she. | |
-4 letters: eh, el, es, he, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-l-s-s" | |
+2 letters: haltless, heelless, helmless, helpless, hiltless, holeless, seashell, shellacs, shellers, subshell, unshells. | |
+3 letters: challises, childless, chillness, eggshells, haplessly, hillsides, lightless, nutshells, phalluses, schillers, seashells, selfheals, selfishly, shelffuls, shellacks, shellfish, shelliest, shigellas, shlemiels, shoebills, shrillest, sidehills, softshell, subshells, swellfish, thalluses, wheelless. | |
+4 letters: billfishes, bombshells, bullrushes, chilliness, chisellers, clamshells, dollhouses, fallfishes, fleshliest, flightless, handleless, harmlessly, headstalls, heedlessly, helplessly, hillcrests, hollowness, hopelessly, hostellers, lampshells, leaseholds, mesophylls, ruthlessly, schlemiels, shallowest, shellbacks, shellfires, shellworks, shlemiehls, shovelfuls, shovellers, shovelsful, shrillness, softshells, swellheads, tollhouses, wholesales. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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