Bombarding vs. Shelling — What's the Difference?

To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles.

The usually hard outer covering that encases certain organisms, such as insects, turtles, and most mollusks.

To attack with a cannon firing stone balls.

A similar outer covering on a nut or seed.

To assail persistently; harass

A similar outer covering on certain eggs, such as those of birds and reptiles; an eggshell.

Present participle of bombard

The material that constitutes such a covering.

Bombardment

An external, usually hard, protective or enclosing case or cover.

A framework or exterior, as of a building.

A thin layer of pastry.

The external part of the ear.

The hull of a ship.

A light, long, narrow racing boat propelled by rowers.

A small glass for beer.

An artillery projectile containing an explosive charge.

A metal or cardboard case containing the charge and primer for a piece of firearms ammunition, especially one also containing shot and fired from a shotgun.

An attitude or a manner adopted to mask one's true feelings or to protect one from perceived or real danger

A set of electron orbitals having nearly the same energy and sharing the same first quantum number.

Any of the stable states of other particles or collections of particles (such as the nucleons in an atomic nucleus) at a given energy or small range of energies.

A usually sleeveless and collarless, typically knit blouse.

A thin, usually waterproof or windproof outer garment for the upper body.

(Computers) A program that works with the operating system as a command processor, used to enter commands and initiate their execution.

A company or corporation created by a second company or corporation for the purposes of facilitating a particular transaction, especially one that is intended to be concealed.

To remove the shell of; shuck

To remove from a shell

To separate the kernels of (corn) from the cob.

To fire shells at; bombard.

To defeat decisively.

(Baseball) To hit the pitches of (a pitcher) hard and with regularity

To shed or become free of a shell.

To look for or collect shells, as on a seashore

Present participle of shell

An artillery bombardment.

The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.

(uncountable) Grain from which the husk has been removed.

(topology) An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)

Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.

Groats; hulled oats.

The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target;