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Difference Between Bombarding and Shelling

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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

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