puca

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: "/ˈkɒl.ə/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Anything that encircles the neck.

Definition: A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.

Example: a collar of brawn

Definition: Any encircling device or structure.

Example: A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.

Definition: (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.

Definition: The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.

Definition: A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.

Definition: An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.

Definition: An arrest.

Definition: A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.

Phonetic: "/ˈkɒl.ə/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To grab or seize by the collar or neck.

Definition: To place a collar on, to fit with one.

Example: Collar and leash aggressive dogs.

Definition: To seize, capture or detain.

Definition: To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.

Definition: (law enforcement) To arrest.

Definition: To bind in conversation.

Example: I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.

Definition: To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.

Definition: (BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.