shell

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In classic BSD startup was just one very large shell script in /etc/rc.

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Quick take

ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shell gathered in one view.

noun

ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun

noun

the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals

noun

hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shell.

noun

ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun

noun

the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals

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hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

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the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts

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the exterior covering of a bird's egg

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a rigid covering that envelops an object; "the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice"

noun

a very light narrow racing boat

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the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case"

noun

a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

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the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod

verb

use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"

verb

create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain"

verb

fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled"

verb

hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"

verb

look for and collect shells by the seashore

verb

come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

See also: beat, crush, trounce, vanquish

verb

remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"

verb

remove the husks from; "husk corn"

Example sentences

In classic BSD startup was just one very large shell script in /etc/rc.

As bad as shell scripting might be, I get an absolute ton done with it.

Lots of people want to play them too, but they don't really want to shell out much cash to do so.

It doesn't matter that the app you lost was the testing instance of a status dashboard with no real data in it, because the exploit coughs up shell access on that server.

The various shell/text utilities in those early days spread because they were often usefully a little bit better than the proprietary "native" equivalents shipped by Sun, Dec, AT&T, etc.

I can still knock together a shell script, tail -f a logfile and pipe it through grep, get some vague clue about why something crashed by casting my eye over a Java exception error, and make a lazy developer deeply uncomfortable when he realises that - would you believe it!

The latency mitigation feature are overrated or even annoying, and it seems many people actually just want mosh for "easily auto-reconnecting mobile shell", something you seriously can solve very well with a very short shell script and no special server-side logic.

Originally truckers were employed directly by the companies, but eventually those companies realized they could react to unionization by outsourcing truckers, either into private shell companies that closed down as soon as unionization hit or by hiring truckers as contractors.

But sometimes one is dominant, and if the gray beast gets its teeth all the way into you, it takes away not just positive feelings but everything until you're just a walking shell so empty you can't even fully comprehend what you've lost.> The converse, when the black beast has you, can be much like you describe - you can still feel a kind of dreadful, frenzied joy in short moments as you cling desperately to the edge of the sucking dark hole in yourself, trying to ignore the beast's whispers that any pleasure is a lie that will just make the coming pain more stark and inescapable and utterly deserved.> They're liars, but they're good at it.