16. (verb)beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish 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"
17. (verb)shell remove from its shell or outer covering "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"
18. (verb)husk, shell remove the husks from "husk corn"
1. (noun)shell the outer covering of some soft animals a crab/snail/oyster/clam shell; a shell necklace
2. shell the hard covering of a nut or egg pieces of egg shell
3. shell the hard covering around an explosive shotgun/artillery shells
4. (verb)shell to attack a place with large guns The army shelled the city for days.
5. shell to take the covering off a nut, seed, etc. Shell the pumpkin seeds first.
Definition of 'Shell'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Shell a hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal
2. (noun)Shell the covering, or outside part, of a nut; as, a hazelnut shell
3. (noun)Shell a pod
4. (noun)Shell the hard covering of an egg
5. (noun)Shell 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
6. (noun)Shell hence, by extension, any mollusks having such a covering
7. (noun)Shell 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
8. (noun)Shell the case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms
9. (noun)Shell any slighthollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house
10. (noun)Shell a coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one
11. (noun)Shell an instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell
12. (noun)Shell an engraved copper roller used in print works
13. (noun)Shell the husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc
14. (noun)Shell the outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve
15. (noun)Shell a light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell
16. (verb)Shell 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
17. (verb)Shell to separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk
18. (verb)Shell to throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town
19. (verb)Shell to fall off, as a shell, crust, etc
20. (verb)Shell to cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling
21. (verb)Shell to be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping
Definitions of 'Shell'
The New Hacker's Dictionary
1. Shell [orig. Multics techspeak, widely propagated
via Unix]
1. [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an
operating system; so called because it is the part of the operating system
that interfaces with the outside world.
2. More generally, any interface program that mediates access to a
special resource or server for convenience,
efficiency, or security reasons; for this meaning, the usage is usually
a shell around whatever. This sort
of program is also called a wrapper.
3. A skeleton program, created by hand or by another program (like,
say, a parser generator), which provides the necessary
incantations to set up some task and the control
flow to drive it (the termdriver is sometimes used
synonymously). The user is meant to fill in whatever code is needed to get
realwork done. This usage is common in the AI and Microsoft Windows
worlds, and confuses Unix hackers.
Historical note: Apparently, the original Multics shell (sense 1) was
so called because it was a shell (sense 3); it ran user programs not by
starting up separate processes, but by dynamically linking the programs
into its own code, calling them as subroutines, and then dynamically
de-linking them on return. The VMS command interpreter still does
something very like this.
Definitions of Shell 
Afrikaans: dop
Arabic: مَحارَه، صَدَفَه
Bulgarian: черупка
Brazilian: concha
Czech: skořápka, krunýř, lastura
German: die Schale
Danish: skal; -skal; skjold; -skj
Greek: κέλυφος, όστρακο, τσόφλι
Spanish: concha, caracol
Estonian: koor, kilp
Farsi: پوست
Finnish: kuori
French: coquille, coquillage, car
Hebrew: קְלִיפָּה
Hindi: छिलका
Croatian: oklop,školjka
Hungarian: héj
Indonesian: cangkang
Icelandic: skel; skurn
Italian: guscio, conchiglia
Japanese: 貝がら
Korean: 껍질
Lithuanian: kiautas
Latvian: čaumala; čaula; gliemežnī
Malay: cangkerang
Dutch: omhulsel
Norwegian: skall, skjell
Polish: skorupa
Persian: پوست
Pashto: پوست
Portuguese: concha
Romanian: scoică; cochilie; coajă; 
Russian: раковина; панцирь; скорлу
Slovak: škrupina, pancier, lastúr
Slovenian: lupina
Serbian: ljuštura
Swedish: snäcka, skal, [snigels] h
Thai: เปลือกหอย
Turkish: kabuk
Taiwanese: 殼、甲
Ukrainian: шкаралупа, лушпина
Urdu: خول ، چھلکا
Vietnamese: vỏ, mai
Chinese: 壳、甲
