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Shell


Definition:

  • (n.) A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
  • (n.) The covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell.
  • (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; as, the shell of a house.
  • (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; as, a racing shell.
  • (v. t.) To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.
  • (v. t.) To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.
  • (v. t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.
  • (v. i.) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
  • (v. i.) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
  • (v. i.) To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.

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.

Top


Definition:

  • (n.) Eve; verge; point.
  • (n.) A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.
  • (n.) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
  • (n.) The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.
  • (n.) The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
  • (n.) The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school.
  • (n.) The chief person; the most prominent one.
  • (n.) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
  • (n.) The head, or upper part, of a plant.
  • (n.) A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft.
  • (n.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
  • (n.) The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
  • (n.) Top-boots.
  • (v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
  • (v. i.) To predominate; as, topping passions.
  • (v. i.) To excel; to rise above others.
  • (v. t.) To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
  • (v. t.) To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.
  • (v. t.) To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.
  • (v. t.) To take off the or upper part of; to crop.
  • (v. t.) To perform eminently, or better than before.
  • (v. t.) To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More than £26bn was wiped off the value of Britain's top companieson Tuesday, according to FTSE Group.
  • (2) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
  • (3) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
  • (4) Sift the cocoa powder over the top and lightly but thoroughly fold it in with the metal spoon.
  • (5) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
  • (6) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
  • (7) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
  • (8) Tottenham not interested in topping Arsenal, says Mauricio Pochettino Read more The second half was less frenetic, with the space much tighter and the chances fewer.
  • (9) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
  • (10) In a domino effect, everyone got down, one on top of the other.” A 29-year-old woman described blood and flesh that had been blown on to others.
  • (11) After the gunfight the marines made the shocking discovery of bodies of 58 men and 14 women in a room, some piled on top of each other.
  • (12) The announcement of Dame Helen Ghosh's departure from the top job at the Home Office the morning after the Olympics is likely to leave Whitehall looking "maler and paler".
  • (13) After the impact … I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent,” he said in his submission to the panel, which met on Wednesday, a day after Uruguay had beaten Italy 1-0 in a decisive group-stage match.
  • (14) The proportions of malnourished infants in BF+AF and BF groups were similar (3.2% and 2.4%, respectively, in males and 11.8% and 7.9%, respectively, in females) and significantly smaller than among top-fed infants (25% and 100% in males and females, respectively).
  • (15) United and West Ham are on similar runs and can feel pretty happy about themselves but are not as confident away from home as they are at home and that will have to change if they are to make ground on the top teams.
  • (16) In a triple tier configuration, females concentrated 66% of their travel on the top tier.
  • (17) In the Isa world, the past few weeks have seen a flurry of new launches , some offering table-topping rates .
  • (18) One of them got a gold medal in medicine, for being top of the year, but they dropped out for exactly these reasons.” These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners.
  • (19) But in the friendlies we tend to give those players a chance to show what they can do at the top level.
  • (20) We believe Oisin has a very exciting future at the BBC.” Clarkson, May and Hammond have signed up to launch a rival show on Amazon’s TV service , while Chris Evans is currently filming a new series of the BBC’s Top Gear show with fellow presenters Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Jordan.

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