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# shell

«shell» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the hard outer cover of a sea animal like a snail, clam…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (shell, shells); verb (shell, shells, shelled, shelling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shell is the hard outer cover of a sea animal like a snail, clam or crab; people find shells on beaches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#m1)

2) A shell is the hard outside of an egg, a nut, a tortoise or a turtle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#m2)

3) A shell is anything like a hard outer case: the shell of a building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#m3)

4) To shell nuts or peas is to take them out of their shells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a thing that is counted in problems («Zoe found 12 shells on the beach»); in science shells protect soft animals (snails, crabs, turtles), and eggs have shells; in everyday life collecting shells at the beach, cracking egg shells, shelling peas

### examples

- Anna had 7 shells and lost 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#x1)
- Zoe found 12 shells on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#x2)
- Tom collects 4 shells every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#x3)
- A snail carries its shell on its back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#x4)
- Crack the egg and throw away the shell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#x5)
- A turtle hides inside its shell when it is scared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#x6)
- We shelled peas for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#x7)
- Hold a big shell to your ear and listen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#x8)
- Crack went the egg-shell, as a waggon passed over it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/#x9)

### note

The thing being counted; carries no operation clue. Keep counts of shells apart from counts of other things. Trap: «4 shells every day» for some days is equal groups: multiply. Plural «shells».

### In the corpora

- [Scorpions are arachnids whose outer shell glows blue-green under ultraviolet light; mothers carry their babies on their backs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/15/)
- [Octopuses can solve puzzles, open jars, learn by watching and remember people; wild ones carry coconut shell halves to hide in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/9/)
- [A tortoise's shell is part of its skeleton, joined to its ribs and backbone, so it can never leave it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/10/)
- [Glyptodonts were armadillo relatives as big as a small car, covered in a bony shell that protected them from hunters such as Smilodon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/12/)
- [Sea turtles cannot pull their heads or flippers into their shells, because their streamlined swimming shells have no room inside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shell» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shell/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.