What's the difference between artillery and shelling?

Artillery


Definition:

  • (n.) Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.
  • (n.) Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.
  • (n.) The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.
  • (n.) The science of artillery or gunnery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
  • (2) Civilian buildings, including a mosque, reportedly came under fire from tanks and artillery in Misrata, the last rebel stronghold in the west of the country.
  • (3) On top of that, a campaign to retake the north will pit largely Shia soldiers against Sunni fighters and, if air power and artillery are used in civilian areas, will risk further alienating the population.
  • (4) The night before, my home town of Sarajevo had come under the heaviest artillery fire we had seen in the 52 days since the war began.
  • (5) We are an independent nation and we have a right to defend our people … Our lack of defensive capability triggers offensive attacks and brings escalation.” He suggested equipment Ukraine needs did not have to be lethal, saying that anti-artillery radar, communications and jamming technology would improve defences.
  • (6) By nightfall the Ukrainian forces were just 10 miles south of the city, bringing the two sides within artillery range of each other.
  • (7) Television news reports later said locals armed with clubs had blocked an artillery brigade moving toward Donetsk and forced it to turn around.
  • (8) Among dozens of other cases on which the military attorney general's office has yet to rule are those that involve the question of whether Israel's heavy use of artillery in an urban area – said to have shocked US officials – was proportionate and justified and over the invoking of the Hannibal Protocol, which saw large-scale destruction around Rafah during an attempt to rescue an Israeli officer who it was feared had been kidnapped.
  • (9) Qusair had come under heavy bombardment from artillery and shells dropped by the Syrian air force and rebel supply lines had been severed by regime forces to the north and east while Hezbollah had advanced from the south and west.
  • (10) It covered all conventional arms in the categories of battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large-calibre artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers, and small arms and light weapons.
  • (11) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
  • (12) "The artillery department gave the specs for a new weapon.
  • (13) Imagine the frustration of the likes of the Australian general Sir John Monash , engineer and polymath, who advocated of infantry, artillery, aircraft and tanks and was told he “lacked dash”.
  • (14) Rockets and artillery are directed at the airport and half a dozen districts, with the Zintanis replying in kind.
  • (15) Underpinning both will be the force troops, or "theatre troops", which will comprise all the units required to support the frontline – such as the artillery, engineers, signals, intelligence and medical corps.
  • (16) Zlitan's uprising began on Friday with battles around the town's hospital, but sources in Misrata say the rebels are now pinned into one district under heavy artillery fire.
  • (17) They have tanks and artillery supplied by the Russians and others against people who demonstrate peacefully.
  • (18) Government soldiers who were trying to tow a damaged ambulance out of the partly ruined town of Luhanske admitted that anyone who went further down the highway towards Debaltseve would come under heavy fire from rebel small arms and artillery.
  • (19) Sung-ha Joo, in his 40s, was a reservist artillery officer, in the North Korean military before he left in 2001.
  • (20) He added: "It may also fail to reduce the violence or shift the momentum because the regime relies overwhelmingly on surface fires – mortars, artillery, and missiles."

Shelling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shell
  • (n.) Groats; hulled oats.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, empty shells can also form independently of intact virions.
  • (2) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
  • (3) Lead levels in contents and shells of eggs laid by hens dosed with all-lead shot were about twice those in eggs laid by hens dosed with lead-iron shot.
  • (4) We recommend the shell vial technique for isolation of C. burnetii.
  • (5) A significant proportion of the soluble protein of the organic matrix of mollusk shells is composed of a repeating sequence of aspartic acid separated by either glycine or serine.
  • (6) Viral particles in the cultures and the brain were of various sizes and shapes; particles ranged from 70 to over 160 nm in diameter, with a variable position of dense nucleoids and less dense core shells.
  • (7) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
  • (8) Unless you are part of some Unite-esque scheme to join up as part of a grand revolutionary plan, why would you bother shelling out for a membership card?
  • (9) Serum levels of lactate dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase were considerably elevated in shell-less embryos.
  • (10) The cultivation of embryos in shell-less culture did not affect the normal macroscopic or histological appearance of the membrane, or the rate of proliferation of its constituent cells, as assessed by tritiated thymidine incorporation.
  • (11) Another friend’s sisters told me that the government building where all the students’ records are stored is in an area where there is frequent shelling and air strikes.
  • (12) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
  • (13) Carmon Creek is wholly owned by Shell, which said it expected the decision to cost $2bn in its third-quarter results due to impairment, contract provision, redundancy and restructuring charges.
  • (14) A technique for efficient cytochalasin-induced enucleation was used to prepare "karyoplasts"--nuclei surrounded by a thin shell of cytoplasm and an outer cell membrane.
  • (15) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
  • (16) We developed a shell vial cell culture assay (SVA) using a cross-reactive monoclonal antibody to the T antigen of simian virus 40 to detect BKV rapidly by indirect immunofluorescence.
  • (17) On second impacts, the GSI rose considerably because the shell and liner of the DH-151 cracked and the suspension of the "141" stretched during the first blow.
  • (18) This coincided with increases in shell thickness and shell porosity as power functions of uterine time.
  • (19) The apoferritin shell is known to assemble spontaneously from its subunits obtained at acid pH upon neutralization.
  • (20) Whereas psammomatous bodies are located within tubules in compressed residual testicular tissue arranged in a shell-like zone around the tumor mass, dystrophic calcifications and bone and cartilage tissues are identified inside the tumor.