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Shell Meaning In Urdu

Shell Meaning in English to Urdu is پوست, as written in Urdu and Post, as written in Roman Urdu. There are many synonyms of Shell which include Carapace, Case, Chassis, Crust, Frame, Framework, Hull, Husk, Integument, Nut, Pericarp, Pod, Scale, Shard, Shuck, Skeleton, Skin, Plastron, etc.

Definitions of Shell

n. A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

n. The covering, or outside part, of a nut.

n. A pod.

n. The hard covering of an egg.

n. The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.

n. Hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering.

n. A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.

n. The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.

n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in.

n. A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.

n. An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.

n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.

n. The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.

n. The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.

n. A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper.

n. Something similar in form or action to an ordnance shell

n. A case or cartridge containing a charge of explosive material, which bursts after having been thrown high into the air. It is often elevated through the agency of a larger firework in which it is contained.

n. A torpedo.

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

n. A gouge bit or shell bit.

intransitive v. To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.

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

intransitive v. To be disengaged from the ear or husk.

transitive v. To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.

transitive v. To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.

transitive v. To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard.

Form Noun

How To Spell Shell [shel]

Origin of Shell Old English scell (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schel ‘scale, shell’, also to scale. The verb dates from the mid 16th century in shell (sense 2 of the verb).

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