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обши́вка — meaning in English

obshivka

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English meaning

  • cladding noun Clothing; clothes.
  • jacket noun A garment for the upper body, worn over a shirt, usually reaching the waist or thigh.
  • liner noun A large passenger ship that travels a regular route.
  • shell noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.

Senses

обши́вка is used for these senses in English:

  • cladding (construction) A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building.
  • jacket A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
  • liner A lining within the cylinder of a steam engine, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.
  • shell (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.

cladding — full definition

  1. noun Clothing; clothes.
  2. noun Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fibre.
  3. noun A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building.

jacket — full definition

  1. noun A garment for the upper body, worn over a shirt, usually reaching the waist or thigh.
  2. noun A protective outer covering or casing wrapped around something, such as a hot water tank or the skin of a baked potato.
  3. verb To enclose or wrap something in a protective covering.

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