shell

/ʃɛl/

意味: 殻、外皮

例文: The tart’s shell was perfectly crisp.
　　  タルトの殻は完璧にサクサクだった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: egg shell(卵の殻), sea shell(貝殻), shell company(ペーパーカンパニー)

定義: 殻は、卵や貝などの外側の硬い部分です。保護や支えの役割を果たします。

shellは約40,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
Noun: the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
Noun: hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
Noun: the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
Noun: the exterior covering of a bird’s egg
Noun: a rigid covering that envelops an object
Noun: a very light narrow racing boat
Noun: the housing or outer covering of something
Noun: a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
Noun: the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
Verb: use explosives on
Verb: create by using explosives
Verb: fall out of the pod or husk
Verb: hit the pitches of hard and regularly
Verb: look for and collect shells by the seashore
Verb: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Verb: remove from its shell or outer covering
Verb: remove the husks from

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The turtle hid inside its hard shell.(カメは硬い甲羅の中に隠れた。)
She found a beautiful shell on the beach.(彼女はビーチで美しい貝殻を見つけた。)
The soldier wore a metal shell for protection.(兵士は防護のために金属の鎧を着ていた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice
Noun: the clock has a walnut case
Verb: The enemy has been shelling us all day
Verb: blast a passage through the mountain
Verb: The corn shelled
Verb: He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning
Verb: Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
Verb: We beat the competition
Verb: Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
Verb: shell the legumes
Verb: shell mussels
Verb: husk corn

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): beat, beat out, blast, carapace, case, casing, crush, cuticle, eggshell, husk, plate, racing shell, scale, shell, shield, trounce, vanquish

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): ammunition, animal material, bombard, covering, emerge, gather, get the better of, hit, housing, hull, make, racing boat, remove, scute, shield

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ablate, amputate, animal fat, animal oil, animal product, arouse, aspirate, assemble, atom-bomb, backhand, bail, bail out, bark, bear, beat, beget, belt, binnacle, blanket, blast, body covering, bomb out, bone, bounce, bring, brush, build, bunker, bunt, bur, burl, burst, cabinet, cannon, carapace, carpet bomb, cartridge, carve out, case shot, cause, chip away, chop, choreograph, circumcise, clap, clean, clear, clear off, cleave, compose, condense, connect, conquer, construct, copy, crankcase, create, create by mental act, create from raw material, create verbally, croquet, crumb, crust, cut, de-iodinate, de-ionate, decalcify, decarbonize, decorticate, defang, defuse, degas, dehorn, delete, delouse, demineralize, demolish, dentine, derive, desorb, detoxify, dig, direct, discharge, disembowel, dislodge, distill, distributor housing, dive-bomb, double, down, draw, draw off, dredge, dribble, drive, eliminate, empty, enucleate, envelope, epilate, establish, excavate, exenterate, expectorate, extirpate, extract, feather, film, film-make, firebomb, flick, fly, follow through, form, foul, froth, generate, give, glide-bomb, grind, ground, ground out, gut, harvest, head, heel, hole, hood, hook, horn, hull, husk, hydrogen-bomb, hypophysectomize, incorporate, indumentum, indusium, institute, integument, journal box, kill, knock out, ladle, lamp house, lay down, leach, letter bomb, lift, loft, lurch, manufacture, muck, nipple shield, nose, nuke, offset, originate, overrun, pattern-bomb, perianth, pericarp, peridium, pick, pit, pitch, plate, play, pop, powder and shot, prepare, press, produce, pull, puncture, put on, putt, racing gig, racket, radome, raise, re-create, realize, ream, recreate, regenerate, reproduce, resect, roof, round, rout, scale, scalp, scavenge, scoop, scrape, seed, shank, sheath, shed, shell, shielding, shoot, short-circuit, shuck, single, skim, skip-bomb, slice, slough, smash, snap, snick, snowcap, spoon, stem, strike, string, strip, style, survive, take away, take off, take out, tear away, test, theca, tip, toe, top, tracer, track, triple, tusk, twine, unburden, undercut, undock, unhinge, unpack, unsaddle, unstring, unveil, upset, vesture, volley, wallop, wash, wear away, weed, whang, winnow, wipe off, withdraw

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): armor plate, artillery shell, boot, cheat, checkmate, clamshell, cream, crump, cuticula, eliminate, gearbox, get the best, get the jump, horseshoe, immobilize, jacket, mother-of-pearl, nutshell, outdo, outfight, outplay, outpoint, overcome, overpower, oyster shell, phragmocone, pod, racing skiff, scallop shell, scull, seashell, shell plating, shotgun shell, shrapnel, spread-eagle, surpass, tank shell, valve, walk over, whizbang, whomp, worst

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: beatable, beating, blast, blaster, case, cuticular, husk, husking, shell, sheller, shelling, trouncing, vanquishable, vanquisher

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, fear, negative, sadness, surprise