Shell and Surface

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Shell noun - An outer part or layer.

Usage example: the shell of the building is all glass, making it conspicuous on a street with mostly limestone facades

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Surface and shell are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Surface" instead a noun "Shell".

Nearby Words: shelling, shelled

Surface noun - An outer part or layer.

Usage example: the surface of just about everything in the kitchen was covered with soot after we put the grease fire out

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Shell and surface are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Shell" instead a noun "Surface".

Nearby Words: surfaced, surfacing

solid	solid shell	solid surface
outer	outer shell	outer surface
blank	blank shell	blank surface
small	small shell	small surface
Other adjectives: entire, hard, large, cold, fragile, new, broken, last.

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