Monday, June 17, 2013

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: shale

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# A shell or husk; a cod or pod.

  

# A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
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#* Chapman
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#*: the green '''shales''' of a bean
 

# {{context|geology}} A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

  

# {{context|geology}} A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
 

#* {{quote-news|year=2007|date=March 23|author=Patricia Leigh Brown|title=The Window Box Gets Some Tough Competition|work=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/us/23greenroof.html

  

#* {{quote-news|year=2007|date=March 23|author=Patricia Leigh Brown|title=The Window Box Gets Some Tough Competition|work=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/us/23greenroof.html

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

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)

  1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
    • Chapman
      the green shales of a bean
  2. (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.

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)

  1. To take off the shell or coat of.

Synonyms[edit]

Translations[edit]

to take off the shell, husk, cod, pod

Anagrams[edit]

Chickasaw[edit]

Noun[edit]

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