espaldar

Phonetic: "/ʃɛl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A hard external covering of an animal.

Definition: The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.

Definition: One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.

Example: The restaurant served caramelized onion shells.

Definition: The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.

Definition: The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.

Definition: The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.

Definition: 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.

Definition: The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.

Definition: Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.

Definition: 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.

Definition: A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.

Definition: A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.

Example: The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.

Definition: 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.

Definition: An engraved copper roller used in print works.

Definition: The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.

Definition: The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.

Definition: (rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.

Definition: A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.

Definition: A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.

Definition: The outward form independent of what is inside.

Definition: The empty outward form of someone or something.

Example: The setback left him a mere shell; he was never the same again.

Definition: An emaciated person.

Example: He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self.

Definition: A psychological barrier to social interaction.

Example: Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell.

Definition: 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.

Example: 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".

Definition: A legal entity that has no operations.

Example: A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.

Definition: A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.

Definition: A gouge bit or shell bit.

Definition: The onset and coda of a syllable.

Definition: A person's ear.

Example: Can I have a quick word in your shell?

Phonetic: "/ʃɛl/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To remove the outer covering or shell of something.

Definition: To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.

Definition: To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).

Definition: To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.

Definition: To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.

Example: Nuts shell in falling.

Definition: To switch to a shell or command line.

Definition: To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).

Definition: To form a shelling.

Phonetic: "/ɔv/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Expressing distance or motion.

Definition: Expressing separation.

Definition: Expressing origin.

Definition: Expressing agency.

Definition: Expressing composition, substance.

Definition: Introducing subject matter.

Definition: Having partitive effect.

Definition: Expressing possession.

Definition: Forming the "objective genitive".

Definition: Expressing qualities or characteristics.

Definition: Expressing a point in time.

Phonetic: "/æɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The name of the Latin script letter A/a.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.

Definition: (specifically) A marine reptile of that order.

Definition: An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.

Definition: A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.

Definition: An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.

Definition: The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.

Definition: A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.

Definition: A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".

Definition: A low stand for a lamp etc.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.

Definition: To turn and swim upside down.

Definition: To hunt turtles, especially in the water.

Definition: To build up a large defense force and strike only punctually, rather than going for an offensive strategy.