English Dictionary

shell

/ʃɛl/

verb

To remove the outer covering or shell of something. / To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery. / (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).

She shells seashells by the seashore.

意味（1）

To remove the outer covering or shell of something.

意味（2）

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

There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.

Nuts shell in falling.

意味（6）

(computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.

Automenu is a good program to try, and offers a fair amount of protection - but, unfortunately, it's one of those systems that allow users to shell to DOS.

意味（7）

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

意味（8）

(topology) To form a shelling.