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Oxford 5000 vocabulary |B1|SPEAKING vocabularyWRITING vocabularyshell /ʃel/ noun [countable]
shell verb [transitive]
صدف
صدف حلزون، کاسه یا لاک محافظ جانور (مثل کاسه لاک پشت)، عامل محافظ، حفاظ، جلد، پوست فندق و غیره، کالبد، لایه زرهی، ژاکت سبک ضد بارانپوسته، بدنه ساختمان، گلوله توپ، پوکه فشنگ، قشر زمین، سبوس گیری، پوست کندن، مغز میوه را درآوردن (از پوست)، علوم مهندسی: پوشش، کامپیوتر: برنامه واسط، برنامه خروج موقت، معماری: توده، شیمی: پوسته، زیست شناسی: صدف، ورزش: ساچمه و چاشنی، قایق دراز و باریک مخصوص مسابقه با پارو، علوم هوایی: لایه، علوم نظامی: جعبه حاوی باروت، بدنه پوکه فشنگ، گلوله باران کردن، پوست کندن، گلوله توپ، بدنه (قرقره)
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Advanced Persian Dictionaryالکترونیک: برنامه واسطه، برنامه خروج موقت،
کامپیوتر: پوسته، صدف،
زیست شناسی: لایه، پوسته،
شیمی: پوست، پوسته، زرهی، پوشش،
علوم مهندسی: قایق دراز و باریک مخصوص مسابقه با پارو ژاکت سبک ضد باران، پوکه، جعبه حاوی باروت، ساچمه و چاشنی،
ورزشی: پوسته، لایه،
هواپیمایی: پوسته، توده،
معماری: فشنگ، بدنه پوکه فشنگ، گلوله باران کردن پوسته، پوست کندن،
علوم نظامی: پوست، قشر، صدف حلزون، کاسه یا لاک محافظ جانور (مثل کاسه لاک پشت)، عامل محافظ حفاظ، جلد، پوست فندق وغیره، کالبد، بدنه ساختمان، گلوله توپ، پوکه فشنگ، قشر زمین، سبوس گیری کردن، پوست کندن از، مغز میوه را دراوردن (از پوست)
کامپیوتر: یک برنامه کوچک برای اجرای برنامه ها
[TahlilGaran] Persian Dictionary ▲
Synonyms & Related Wordsshell[noun]Synonyms:- case, husk, pod
- frame, framework, hull, structure
[verb]Synonyms:- bomb, attack, blitz, bombard, strafe
Related Idioms: open fire on
Related Words: pepper,
rake
English Thesaurus: shoot, fire, launch, open fire, shell, ... [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
English DictionaryShell trademark a very large international oil company which has many
petrol stations world-wide
[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
I. shell1 S3 W3 /ʃel/
noun [countable][
Language: Old English;
Origin: sciell]
1. a) the hard outer part that covers and protects an egg, nut, or seed:
Never buy eggs with cracked shells. peanuts roasted in their shells b) the hard protective covering of an animal such as a
snail,
mussel, or
crab:
a snail shell The children were collecting shells on the beach. ⇒
seashell2. a metal container, like a large bullet, which is full of an explosive substance and is fired from a large gun:
We ran for cover as shells dropped all around us. an exploding mortar shell3. especially American English a metal tube containing a bullet and an explosive substance
Synonym : cartridge4. the outside structure of something, especially the part of a building that remains when the rest of it has been destroyed
shell of the burnt-out shell of a nightclub5. out of your shell becoming less shy and more confident and willing to talk to people:
I had hoped that university would bring him out of his shell. She’s started to come out of her shell a little. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
II. shell2 verb [transitive]1. to fire shells from large guns at something:
The army has been shelling the town since yesterday.2. to remove something such as beans or nuts from a shell or
pod:
Josie was shelling peas in the kitchen.shell out (something) phrasal verb informal to pay a lot of money for something, especially unwillingly:
If you want the repairs done right, you’ll have to shell out at least $800.shell out (something) for She ended up shelling out for two rooms. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
Collocationsshell nounI. on eggs/nuts/some animals ADJ. broken, empty, hard, outer, protective, thick (figurative) She had built up a protective shell of indifference around herself.
egg (also
eggshell)
| cockle, conch, cowrie, fossil, mollusc, mussel, oyster, scallop, sea (also
seashell),
snail The garden was littered with empty snail shells.
coconut, walnut VERB + SHELL have creatures that have shells
come out of, emerge from (often figurative) He's really come out of his shell since he met Marie.
go (back) into, retreat into, withdraw into The snail went back into its shell.
remove sth from Remove the mussels from their shells. [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲
shell II. explosive weapon ADJ. heavy | unexploded | anti-aircraft, artillery, cannon, howitzer, mortar VERB + SHELL load | fire SHELL + VERB fall, land | blow up, burst, crash, explode | hit sth, strike sth Two shells hit the roof.
blow sth apart/off, blow sb/sth up SHELL + NOUN fire They braved heavy shell fire to rescue the wounded.
case/casing, fragments, splinter | crater, hole [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲
shell III. outer walls of a building ADJ. concrete | burnt-out, empty, hollow The fire reduced the school to a hollow shell. [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲
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