Sentence examples for term shell from inspiring English sources

The term "shell shock" describes the psychological disorder attributed to the effects of the explosive capacity of artillery shells on affected soldiers.

In Shell Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems, he described the term "shell shock" as advantageous because it "compared with the more acutely terrible and life-in-the-balance thing we know as traumatic or surgical shock".

The interaction term (shell size by population) was not significant (p = 0.24), and there was a highly significant effect of population on size-adjusted crushing resistance (F = 6.3, df = 18, 467, p < 0.001).

In physical terms Shell is weak.

The keratin-covered boney top (dorsal) part of the shell, termed carapace, is composed of rigid sandwich-like ribs made of a central foam-like interior flanked by two external cortices.

Chartered in 1874 it was known as the town of Big Lick but was renamed Roanoke (1882) for the Indian term for shell money or for a nearby salt marsh.

A midden is a Scottish term for "shell heap" [domestic waste], that now has come to mean a junk pile.

Before that, terms like shell shock and battle fatigue were used.

In the United States, many people's understanding of the effects of war are limited to terms like shell shock, battle fatigue and Hollywood tales such as Rambo and Deer Hunter.

(" 'Cannibal' cop had BBQ plans for beauty," "If looks could grill!") There's been more vocal outrage over Seth McFarlane's distasteful Oscar jokes than there has been over the uncountable numbers apparently willing to think about women in the same terms as shell steaks.

The effect of a single localized geometric imperfection was analyzed in order to assess the most adverse configuration in terms of shell aspect ratios.