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оболо́чка — meaning in English

obolochka

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English meaning

  • casing noun An outer covering that encloses or protects something.
  • envelope noun A flat paper or cardboard cover used to hold and mail letters or documents.
  • husk noun The dry outer covering of certain fruits, seeds, or vegetables, such as corn.
  • jacket noun A garment for the upper body, worn over a shirt, usually reaching the waist or thigh.
  • membrane noun A thin, flexible layer of tissue that lines or separates parts of an organism.
  • shell noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.

Senses

оболо́чка is used for these senses in English:

  • casing That which encloses or encases.
  • husk (figuratively) Any form of useless, dried up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
  • jacket A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
  • membrane (anatomy, zootomy) A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments.
  • operculum (zoology) A covering flap in animals, such as a gill cover.
  • 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.

casing — full definition

  1. noun An outer covering that encloses or protects something.
  2. noun The decorative frame around a door or window.

envelope — full definition

  1. noun A flat paper or cardboard cover used to hold and mail letters or documents.
  2. noun The outer limits within which something, especially an aircraft or system, can safely operate.
  3. verb To wrap something up completely, enclosing it.

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