Bombardment vs. Shelling — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bombardment and Shelling
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Bombardment
A bombardment is an attack by artillery fire or by dropping bombs from aircraft on fortifications, combatants, or towns and buildings. Prior to World War I, the term was only applied to the bombardment of defenseless or undefended objects, houses, public buildings, etc.
Shelling
The usually hard outer covering that encases certain organisms, such as insects, turtles, and most mollusks.
Bombardment
To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles.
Shelling
A similar outer covering on a nut or seed.
Bombardment
To attack with a cannon firing stone balls.
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Shelling
A similar outer covering on certain eggs, such as those of birds and reptiles; an eggshell.
Bombardment
To assail persistently; harass
“[patients] bombarded with bewildering terms like ‘managed competition’ and ‘risk selection’” (Carla Cantor). ].
Shelling
The material that constitutes such a covering.
Bombardment
The act of bombing, especially towns or cities
Shelling
An external, usually hard, protective or enclosing case or cover.
Bombardment
Heavy artillery fire
Shelling
A framework or exterior, as of a building.
Bombardment
(physics) the incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance
Shelling
A thin layer of pastry.
Bombardment
An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
Shelling
The external part of the ear.
Bombardment
The act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays)
Shelling
The hull of a ship.
Bombardment
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
Shelling
A light, long, narrow racing boat propelled by rowers.
Bombardment
An attack by dropping bombs
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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