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Plain white T-shirts do it for me every time. You can spend anything from £3 to £50 on a T-shirt, but I've bought some great ones from H&M, as well as shelling out on Duffer Of St George and a Polish label I discovered while filming 'Robin Hood' in Hungary called Scotch And Soda.
Jonas Armstrong

Meaning of "shelling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHELLING

shelling  [ˈʃɛlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHELLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shelling is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHELLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of shelling in the English dictionary

The definition of shelling in the dictionary is the act of bombing a place with artillery shells.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHELLING


bestselling
ˌbɛstˈsɛlɪŋ
celling
ˈsɛlɪŋ
compelling
kəmˈpɛlɪŋ
dwelling
ˈdwɛlɪŋ
evil-smelling
ˈiːv əlsmɛlɪŋ
fast-selling
ˈfɑːstˌsɛlɪŋ
Felling
ˈfɛlɪŋ
fortune-telling
ˈfɔːtʃuːntɛlɪŋ
foul-smelling
ˌfaʊlˈsmɛlɪŋ
mis-selling
ˌmɪsˈsɛlɪŋ
misspelling
ˌmɪsˈspɛlɪŋ
propelling
prəˈpɛlɪŋ
retelling
ˌriːˈtɛlɪŋ
selling
ˈsɛlɪŋ
spelling
ˈspɛlɪŋ
swelling
ˈswɛlɪŋ
telling
ˈtɛlɪŋ
uncompelling
ˌʌnkəmˈpɛlɪŋ
welling
ˈwɛlɪŋ
yelling
ˈjɛlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHELLING

shellacker
shellacking
shellback
shellbark
shellbound
shellcracker
shelldrake
shellduck
shelled
sheller
Shelley
shellfire
shellfish
shellfishery
shellful
shelliness
shellproof
shellwork
shelly
shellycoat

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHELLING

billing
calling
chilling
controlling
direct selling
drilling
falling
feeling
filling
fulfilling
hot-selling
installing
killing
modelling
polling
rolling
scrolling
shilling
start the ball rolling
travelling
willing

Synonyms and antonyms of shelling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SHELLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «shelling» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of shelling

Translation of «shelling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHELLING

Find out the translation of shelling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shelling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shelling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

炮轰
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bombardeos
570 millions of speakers

English

shelling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गोलीबारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القصف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

обстрел
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bombardeio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বোমাবর্ষণের
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bombardements
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menyerang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Beschuss
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

爆撃
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

포격
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngrusak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự lột vỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஷெல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शस्त्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bombardıman
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bombardamenti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

łuskanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обстріл
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

decojirea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βομβαρδισμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

granaat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

beskjutningen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avskalling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shelling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHELLING»

The term «shelling» is quite widely used and occupies the 38.893 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHELLING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shelling

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QUOTES WITH «SHELLING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shelling.
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Jonas Armstrong
Plain white T-shirts do it for me every time. You can spend anything from £3 to £50 on a T-shirt, but I've bought some great ones from H&M, as well as shelling out on Duffer Of St George and a Polish label I discovered while filming 'Robin Hood' in Hungary called Scotch And Soda.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHELLING»

Discover the use of shelling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shelling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shelling: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations ShedingA tear shed can say more than a hundred words spoken.ndash;AnonymousIt is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.ndash;Francis BaconTime engraves our faces with all the tears we have ...
‎2008
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Corn shelling percentage studies
The results of shelling percent studies on corn in Missouri show the following: 1.
Rodney Dwain Horrocks, Marcus Stanley Zuber, 1970
3
The Shelling of Beverly Hills
Martyn Burke. of them agree with that, especially after Hobie Reed the big real estate man makes the mistake of saying that he's sure it was slightly darker colored people behind the artillery he saw down on Sunset. Darker! Big mistake. People ...
Martyn Burke, 2000
4
Fruit Breeding, Nuts
Shelling percentage (dry weight of kernel/weight of in-shell nut x 100) is also used to obtain a quantitative measure of shell hardness and is utilized in commercial activities to calculate yield of kernel product. Barbera et al. ( 1988a) have ...
Jules Janick, James N. Moore, 1996
5
Lectures on Polytopes
Now we start a shelling of dP* with the facets that correspond to the nonextendable partial shelling of 7*3(9, 9, 4) given in Lemma 8.6. This partial shelling has two connected parts in common with the boundary of the box B := |7* 3(9,9, 4)|.
Günter M. Ziegler, 1995
6
Simplicial Complexes of Graphs
I By the discussion in Section 3.6.3, a decomposition as in Definition 3.27 (or Definition 3.28) induces a shelling of a complex A. We refer to such a shelling as a VD-shelling; each shedding face is a vertex. Lemma 6.12. Let A be a shellable  ...
Jakob Jonsson, 2008
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Technology of Cereals: An Introduction for Students of Food ...
Excessive steaming, beyond that required for enzyme inactivation, is to be avoided, because oxidation of the fat, resulting in oxidative rancidity, may be encouraged by heat treatment. Kiln-drying In the traditional dry-shelling system, the oats, ...
Norman Leslie Kent, A. D. Evers, 1994
8
List of Patents for Inventions and Designs, Issued by the ...
Corn shelling. Com shelling. Com shelling. Com shelling Com shelling Com shelling Com shelling Corn shelling Com shelling Com shelling Corn shelling. Com shelling Com shelling Com shelling Com shelling. .••••..*••.•*•• Corn shelling Corn ...
United States. Patent Office, Edmund Burke, 1847
9
A Parting Shot: Shelling of Australia by Japanese Submarines ...
This is the first book devoted to this wartime history, and coincides with the 70th anniversary year of the Japanese submarine attacks. The Foreword has been written by Dr Peter Stanley, Head, Research Centre, National Museum of Australia.
Terrence W. Jones, Steven L. Carruthers, 2013
10
Geometry and Topology for Mesh Generation
Extendable shelling (three credits). Let AT be a triangulation of the closed disk, let n be the number of triangles, and let T\,TZ, ..., r, be an ordering of / < n triangles so every prefix defines another triangulation of B2. For obvious reasons, the ...
Herbert Edelsbrunner, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHELLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shelling is used in the context of the following news items.
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Yemen conflict: Dozens killed in Aden heavy shelling
A Houthi rebel leader denied bombarding the district, but Yemeni medics said the shelling came from the rebel-held areas, the Associated Press news agency ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
Heavy shelling of Ukrainian city of Donetsk puts civilians at risk
Four civilians -- including a 9-year-old girl -- died and four others were injured in Ukraine-controlled territory as a result of shelling Saturday, according to the ... «CNN, Jul 15»
3
Shelling from Syria kills one, injures four others in North Jordan
Home » News » Main Headlines » Shelling From Syria Kills One, Injures Four Others ... Woman killed, children injured after North Sinai house shelling: sources. «Al-Bawaba, Jun 15»
4
Shelling in Syrian capital and suburbs kills 18
The shelling came after government forces fired rockets into the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ... «Ynetnews, Jun 15»
5
Intense rebel shelling of Aleppo kills more than 30 - Syria monitor
Staffan de Mistura called the shelling an indiscriminate attack on civilians but said the government should not retaliate by dropping barrel bombs on populated ... «Reuters UK, Jun 15»
6
AFP reporter injured in east Ukraine shelling
Alexander Gayuk, 33, said he was "wounded in the knee, probably by shrapnel" during another round of intense shelling in the biggest city in the war zone. «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
7
Civilians die in Ukraine shelling
Two civilians in a government-controlled area of eastern Ukraine have been killed, authorities said, amid a surge of shelling as combat flared between the ... «Irish Examiner, Jun 15»
8
UN aid ship targeted by shelling near Aden
Aden (AFP) - A UN-chartered ship loaded with humanitarian supplies bound for Yemen was targeted by shelling as it approached the country's main southern ... «Yahoo News, May 15»
9
Rebel shelling kills at least two in Ukraine, coke plant shuts down
KIEV Shelling by Russian-backed separatists killed at least two people -- one civilian and one Ukrainian serviceman -- in Ukraine at the weekend and halted ... «Reuters UK, May 15»
10
Shelling kills one worker at east Ukraine coke plant: Metinvest
"This was the heaviest shelling since the declaration of the ceasefire," Metinvest said in a statement on Friday. As a result of Thursday's attack the plant is not ... «Yahoo News, May 15»

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