Bombarding vs. Shelling — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bombarding and Shelling
Definitions
Bombarding➦
To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles.
Shelling➦
The usually hard outer covering that encases certain organisms, such as insects, turtles, and most mollusks.
Bombarding➦
To attack with a cannon firing stone balls.
Shelling➦
A similar outer covering on a nut or seed.
Bombarding➦
To assail persistently; harass
“[patients] bombarded with bewildering terms like ‘managed competition’ and ‘risk selection’” (Carla Cantor). ].
Shelling➦
A similar outer covering on certain eggs, such as those of birds and reptiles; an eggshell.
Bombarding➦
Present participle of bombard
Shelling➦
The material that constitutes such a covering.
Bombarding➦
Bombardment
Shelling➦
An external, usually hard, protective or enclosing case or cover.
Shelling➦
A framework or exterior, as of a building.
Shelling➦
A thin layer of pastry.
Shelling➦
The external part of the ear.
Shelling➦
The hull of a ship.
Shelling➦
A light, long, narrow racing boat propelled by rowers.
Shelling➦
A small glass for beer.
Shelling➦
An artillery projectile containing an explosive charge.
Shelling➦
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.
Shelling➦
An attitude or a manner adopted to mask one's true feelings or to protect one from perceived or real danger
Embarrassed, she withdrew into a shell.
Shelling➦
A set of electron orbitals having nearly the same energy and sharing the same first quantum number.
Shelling➦
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.
Shelling➦
A usually sleeveless and collarless, typically knit blouse.
Shelling➦
A thin, usually waterproof or windproof outer garment for the upper body.
Shelling➦
(Computers) A program that works with the operating system as a command processor, used to enter commands and initiate their execution.
Shelling➦
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.
Shelling➦
To remove the shell of; shuck
Shell oysters.
Shelling➦
To remove from a shell
Shell peas.
Shelling➦
To separate the kernels of (corn) from the cob.
Shelling➦
To fire shells at; bombard.
Shelling➦
To defeat decisively.
Shelling➦
(Baseball) To hit the pitches of (a pitcher) hard and with regularity
Shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning.
Shelling➦
To shed or become free of a shell.
Shelling➦
To look for or collect shells, as on a seashore
Spent the day shelling on Cape Cod.
Shelling➦
Present participle of shell
Shelling➦
An artillery bombardment.
Shelling➦
The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
Shelling➦
(uncountable) Grain from which the husk has been removed.
Shelling➦
(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)
Shelling➦
Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.
Shelling➦
Groats; hulled oats.
Shelling➦
The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target;
They laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops
The shelling went on for hours without pausing