shale
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Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪl
Etymology[edit]
Middle English schale 'shell, husk; scale', from Old English scealu 'shell, husk, pod', from Proto-Germanic *skalō (compare West Frisian skaal 'dish', Dutch schaal 'shell', German Schale 'husk, pod'), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelo- 'split, cleaved' (compare Lithuanian skalà 'splinter', Old Church Slavonic skala 'rock, stone', Albanian halë 'fish bone, splinter', Sanskrit kalá 'small part'), from *(s)kel- 'to split, cleave' (compare Hittite iškalla 'to tear apart, slit open', Lithuanian skélti 'to split', Ancient Greek skállein 'to hoe, harrow').
Noun[edit]
shale (plural shales)
- A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
- Chapman
- the green shales of a bean
- Chapman
- (geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
- 2007 March 23, Patricia Leigh Brown, “The Window Box Gets Some Tough Competition”, New York Times:
- As on all large green roofs, the soil is not dirt exactly but a gravel-like growing medium of granulated pumice, shales, clays and other minerals.
- 2007 March 23, Patricia Leigh Brown, “The Window Box Gets Some Tough Competition”, New York Times:
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
sedimentary rock
Verb[edit]
shale (third-person singular simple present shales, present participle shaling, simple past and past participle shaled)
- To take off the shell or coat of.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to take off the shell, husk, cod, pod
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