I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.
2. v. To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.
We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.
3. v. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.
4. v. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.
5. v. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.
6. subst. (usually) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
7. subst. (rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
8. subst. A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
9. subst. (obsolete) A stake.
10. subst. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
11. subst. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
12. subst. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
13. subst. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
14. subst. (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.
15. subst. (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
16. subst. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
17. v. (curling) To play a peel shot.
18. v. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
19. v. (misspelling of peal): to sound loudly.
20. v. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.
2. subst. The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
In some mollusks, as the cuttlefish, the shell is concealed by the animal's outer mantle and is considered internal.
Genuine mother-of-pearl buttons are made from sea shells.
3. subst. (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
4. subst. (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
5. subst. The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
6. subst. The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
7. subst. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
8. subst. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
The restaurant served caramelized onion shells.
9. subst. (botany) The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
10. subst. The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
The black walnut and the hickory nut, both of the same Genus as the pecan, have much thicker and harder shells than the pecan.
11. subst. A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
12. subst. (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate
13. subst. (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
14. subst. (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
15. subst. (weaponry) A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion a
16. subst. (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
17. subst. (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
18. subst. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
19. subst. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
20. subst. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.
21. subst. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
22. subst. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
23. subst. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
24. subst. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
25. subst. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
26. subst. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter.
The name shell originates from it being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the internals of the operating system.
The name "Bash" is an acronym which stands for "Bourne-again shell", itself a pun on the name of the "Bourne shell", an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen Bourne, and the Christian concept
27. subst. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
28. subst. An emaciated person.
He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self.
29. subst. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell.
30. subst. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.
31. subst. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
32. subst. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
33. subst. (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
34. v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
35. v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
36. v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
37. v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
38. v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
Nuts shell in falling.
Wheat or rye shells in reaping.
39. v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
40. v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
41. v. (topology) To form a shelling.
bowl
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Schüssel
3. [2] Suppenteller
4. [3] (amerikanisch) Amphitheater
5. [4] Bowlingkugel
6. [5] Boule, Boulespiel
bowl
1. subst. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
2. subst. As much as is held by a bowl.
You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
3. subst. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
4. subst. The round hollow part of anything.
Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.
5. subst. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
6. subst. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
Let's smoke a bowl!
7. subst. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
8. subst. A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
9. subst. (sports) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
10. subst. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
11. subst. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
12. subst. The action of bowling a ball.
13. subst. (in the but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
14. v. To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
15. v. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
16. v. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
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