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Definition: Shelling |
ShellingNoun1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shelling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | See:shell. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ShellingSynonyms: barrage (n), barrage fire (n), battery (n), bombardment (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Shelling |
| English words defined with "shelling": barrage, barrage fire, battery, blast, bombardment ♦ remember ♦ shell, strafe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shelling": FARM-MACHINE TENDER, FARMWORKER, GRAIN I, FARMWORKER, VEGETABLE II ♦ garden worker ♦ HULLER OPERATOR ♦ laborer, vegetable farm ♦ MANAGER, PRODUCTION, SEED CORN, manager, regional ♦ NUT STEAMER ♦ PLANT SUPERVISOR ♦ RICE CLEANING MACHINE TENDER, ROUGH-RICE TENDER ♦ shelling report, steamer operator ♦ vegetable worker. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's my nerves, sir. I just can't stand the shelling anymore (Patton; writing credit: Ladislas Farago; Omar N. Bradley) They've been shelling flavored chocolate bars from dawn till dusk (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl) Sweetheart, I can't push them no harder; 19,000 bars an hour they're shelling; 760,000 they've done so far. (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl) | |
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 | Shelling the coast of New Guinea in early 1944. Photo is dated 10 February 1944, but may have been taken during the Madang-Alexishafen bombardment of 25-26 January 1944. This view looks forward on the starboard side from the midships 20mm gun gallery. Note tracers, which appear several feet in front of gun muzzles. Those from the four starboard side 5"/25 guns have a higher trajectory than the tracers fired from the forward 6"/47 gun turrets. Tracers from the 6-inch guns appear to wobble slightly. Credit: NAVY. |  | Shelling Japanese positions on Okinawa, 30 March 1945. USS Portland (CA-33) is in the left background, also taking part in the bombardment. Photographed from USS West Virginia (BB-48). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Shelling the woods before landing the troops at Daiquiri. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | American missiles shelling a Filipino shack with "I will return" notice from MacArthur. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Natives shelling corn, Guadalajara, Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fredericksburg, Va. Houses damaged by the shelling of December 13, 1862. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rebels leaving Mechanicsville. Union batteries shelling the Village. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shelling the rebel rifle pits on the Rappahannock--previous to the third crossing of Sedgwicks corps June 5th. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mexican lunch wagon serving tortillas and fried beans to workers in pecan shelling plant, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shelling peanuts, Wolf Creek, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Shelling Peas" by Loretta Humble Commentary: "Folks in our nursing love to help out by shelling peas." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | India | Since 1999 artillery shelling of the region by Pakistan has kept many of the internally displaced persons from returning and driven others from their homes. (references) |
Human Rights | Lebanon | The Israeli Defense Forces responded with artillery shelling. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The security forces use aerial observation for selecting targets for shelling and bombing. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | At the time of the bombing halt just a year ago, there was some confusion as to whether there was an understanding on the part of the enemy that if we stopped the bombing of North Vietnam they would stop the shelling of cities in South Vietnam. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Shelling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 51.43% of the time. "Shelling" is used about 140 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 51.43% | 72 | 39,377 |
| Noun (singular) | 45% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.86% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.71% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 140 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "shelling" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shelling | Last name | 130 | 60,313 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "shelling": as easy as shelling peas ♦ machine for shelling peas ♦ shelling report. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
shelling | 27 |
shelling florida | 7 |
shelling beach | 6 |
mcabe shelling | 3 |
beach best shelling | 3 |
sanibel shelling | 3 |
hr inc mccabe shelling | 2 |
sanibel island shelling | 2 |
shelling in florida | 2 |
pecan plant shelling | 2 |
hr inc mcabe shelling | 2 |
corn shelling | 2 |
mccabe shelling | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shelling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bombardim me artileri. (various references) | |
Arabic | قصف المدفعية, قصف (bombard, bombardment, bombing, cannon, feast, hilarity, orgy, peal, revel, revelry, romp, shell). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лющене (husking, peeling), бомбардиране (bombardment, bombing). (various references) | |
Chinese | 轰击 (shelled). (various references) | |
Danish | bælgning (hulling, husking), afskalning (abrasion, decortication, desquamation, dodder elimination, eliminating dodder, exfoliation, flaking, hulling, husking, peeling, pitting, popping, scaling, undermining), afskalle (decorticate, hulling, husking, pulping, to bark, to decorticate). (various references) | |
Dutch | pellen (decorticate, hulling, husking, pulping), doppen (hulling, husking), bombardement (bombardment). (various references) | |
Finnish | pommitus (bombardment, bombing), kuorien poistaminen (shucking). (various references) | |
French | pilonnage d'artillerie, exfoliation, décorticage (shucking), décoquillage (shucking), bombardement, égrenage, écossage, écorçage, écaillage (shell). (various references) | |
German | granatfeuer, Enthülsung (dodder elimination, eliminating dodder, hulling, husking), Enthülsen (Hull, husk, pod, shell, shuck), beschuss (bombardment, fire), Beschuß. (various references) | |
Greek | αποφλοίωση (barking, coffee bean shelling-polishing, coffee bean skin removing, cornhusking, debarking, decortication, disbarking, full deterioration, hulling, husking, maize husking, parchment removing, peeling, pulping, rossing, scaling, slip skin, sloughing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחשוף (decortication, exposed place), הפגזה (bombardment), הפצצה (bombardment, bombing), הרעשה (bombardment, cannonade, jolting, making noise, shaking, storming). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hántolás (shaving, stripping), bombázás (bombardment, bombing, shell fire, strafe). (various references) | |
Italian | sgusciatura (hatching, hulling, husking), sgranatura (ginning, husking, rippling), decorticatura (hulling, husking, pulping), bombardamento (bombardment, bombing, cannonade, shellfire). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 砲撃 (bombarding, bombardment). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほうげき (bombarding, bombardment). (various references) | |
Korean | 벗김 (Shucking, Skinning, stripping). (various references) | |
Manx | skilley (husk, shell, shuck, shucking, squill; husking), bleaystanys (bombardment, bombing). (various references) | |
Papiamen | bombardeo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ellingshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | descasque (decortication, disbarking, hulling, husking, pulping), descascamento (peeling), descascadura (hulling, husking, pulping), bombardeio (bombing, cannonade). (various references) | |
Russian | шелушение (peeling), артиллерийский обстрел. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ljuštenje (paring, peeling), ljušćenje (paring, peeling), artiljerijsko gađanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | descascarillado (crumbling, decortication, hulling, husking, scaling). (various references) | |
Swedish | spritärt (garden peas, green peas, round seeded pea, shelling pea, Shelling peas, smooth pea). (various references) | |
Turkish | topa tutma (bombardment), bombardıman (bombardment, cannonade, drum-fire, prang, salvo, salvo bombing), bombalama (bombardment, bombing, strafing). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | збирання морських черепашок, артилерійський обстріл, лущення (exfoliation). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nã pháo, sự bắn pháo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "shelling": bushelling, unshelling. (additional references) | |
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"Shelling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: helling, sahelians, Schellino, Schmerling, Schnelling, Sellindge, sellinmg, sheiling, Shelaine, shelings, shellan, shelleen, Shevlin, Shillong, shnelling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shelling" (pronounced she"ling) |
| 4 | -e" l i ng | Belling, compelling, dispelling, dwelling, excelling, expelling, felling, foretelling, helling, Melling, misspelling, outselling, propelling, quelling, rappelling, rebelling, repelling, reselling, retelling, selling, smelling, Snelling, spelling, swelling, telling, welling, yelling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, ambling, angling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rattling, raveling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, rescheduling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, settling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-l-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: english, helling, selling, shingle. | |
-2 letters: hinges, ingles, neighs, single, sleigh. | |
-3 letters: gills, glens, heils, hells, hills, hinge, ingle, lenis, liens, lines, lings, lisle, neigh, nighs, nills, segni, sengi, shell, shiel, shill, shine, singe, sling, snell. | |
-4 letters: egis, elhi, ells, engs, gels, gens, ghis, gien, gies, gill, gins, glen, heil, hell, hens, hies, hill, hins. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-l-l-n-s" | |
+2 letters: bushelling, chiselling, hanselling, hirselling, hostelling, houselling, shovelling, unshelling. | |
+3 letters: handselling, lightplanes, shellacking, shrivelling, wholesaling. | |
+4 letters: candlelights, dishevelling, embellishing, shellackings, slaveholding. | |
+5 letters: clotheslining, collieshangie, fellowshiping, flugelhornist, hallucinogens, lichenologies, lichenologist, slaveholdings. | |
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