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
- noun An outer covering that encloses or protects something.
- noun The decorative frame around a door or window.
envelope — full definition
- noun A flat paper or cardboard cover used to hold and mail letters or documents.
- noun The outer limits within which something, especially an aircraft or system, can safely operate.
- verb To wrap something up completely, enclosing it.