"half shell" meaning in English

See half shell in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|?}} half shell
  1. (rare, colloquial, especially with "on the") Inexpensive; not overpriced. Tags: colloquial, especially, rare, with "on the" Categories (topical): Foods
    Sense id: en-half_shell-en-adj-xh1pIXS9 Disambiguation of Foods: 39 26 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: half-shell

Noun

Forms: half shells [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} half shell (countable and uncountable, plural half shells)
  1. (physics, figuratively) Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any dome-shaped object. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable Categories (topical): Physics, Foods
    Sense id: en-half_shell-en-noun-aHFH8gDB Disambiguation of Foods: 39 26 34 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
  2. (of food, especially with "on the") Either half of a clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, baked clams. Tags: countable, especially, of food, uncountable, with "on the" Categories (topical): Foods
    Sense id: en-half_shell-en-noun-~iqaq6-Z Disambiguation of Foods: 39 26 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: half-shell Derived forms: on the half-shell

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for half shell meaning in English (2.6kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "half shell",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "39 26 34",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Foods",
          "orig": "en:Foods",
          "parents": [
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Inexpensive; not overpriced."
      ],
      "id": "en-half_shell-en-adj-xh1pIXS9",
      "links": [
        [
          "overpriced",
          "overpriced"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, colloquial, especially with \"on the\") Inexpensive; not overpriced."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "especially",
        "rare",
        "with \"on the\""
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 48 52",
      "word": "half-shell"
    }
  ],
  "word": "half shell"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "48 52",
      "word": "on the half-shell"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "half shells",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "half shell (countable and uncountable, plural half shells)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Physics",
          "orig": "en:Physics",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 26 34",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Foods",
          "orig": "en:Foods",
          "parents": [
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any dome-shaped object."
      ],
      "id": "en-half_shell-en-noun-aHFH8gDB",
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "dome",
          "dome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics, figuratively) Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any dome-shaped object."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "figuratively",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "39 26 34",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Foods",
          "orig": "en:Foods",
          "parents": [
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Either half of a clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, baked clams."
      ],
      "id": "en-half_shell-en-noun-~iqaq6-Z",
      "links": [
        [
          "clamshell",
          "clamshell"
        ],
        [
          "clam",
          "clam"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of food, especially with \"on the\") Either half of a clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, baked clams."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "especially",
        "of food",
        "uncountable",
        "with \"on the\""
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 48 52",
      "word": "half-shell"
    }
  ],
  "word": "half shell"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "en:Foods"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "half shell",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Inexpensive; not overpriced."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overpriced",
          "overpriced"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, colloquial, especially with \"on the\") Inexpensive; not overpriced."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "especially",
        "rare",
        "with \"on the\""
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "half-shell"
    }
  ],
  "word": "half shell"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "en:Foods"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "on the half-shell"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "half shells",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "half shell (countable and uncountable, plural half shells)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Physics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any dome-shaped object."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "dome",
          "dome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics, figuratively) Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any dome-shaped object."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "figuratively",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Either half of a clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, baked clams."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clamshell",
          "clamshell"
        ],
        [
          "clam",
          "clam"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of food, especially with \"on the\") Either half of a clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, baked clams."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "especially",
        "of food",
        "uncountable",
        "with \"on the\""
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "half-shell"
    }
  ],
  "word": "half shell"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-03-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-03-01 using wiktextract (68773ab and 5f6ddbb). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.