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shale
English
Etymology
From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English s?ealu (“shell, husk, pod”), from Proto-Germanic *skal? (compare West Frisian skaal (“dish”), Dutch schaal (“shell”), schalie (“shale”), German Schale (“husk, pod”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”) (compare Lithuanian skalà (“splinter”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (skala, “rock, stone”), Polish ska?a (“rock”), Albanian halë (“fish bone, splinter”), Sanskrit ?? (kalá, “small part”)), from to split, cleave (compare Hittite [script needed] (iškalla, “to tear apart, slit open”), Lithuanian skélti (“to split”), Ancient Greek ?????? (skáll?, “to hoe, harrow”)). Doublet of scale. See also shell.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
Noun
shale (countable and uncountable, plural shales)
- A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
- c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia
- the green shales of a bean
- c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia
- (geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
Usage notes
Before the mid 19th century, the terms shale, slate and schist were not sharply distinguished. Shales that are subject to heat and pressure alter into slate, then schist and finally to gneiss.
Derived terms
- oil shale
- shale oil
- shaley
- shaleionaire
- shaly
Related terms
- gneiss
- schist
- slate
Translations
Verb
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
- shell
Translations
Anagrams
- Hales, Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, hales, halse, heals, leash, selah, sheal
Chickasaw
Noun
shale
- bus
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maceral
English
Etymology
See mineral. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
maceral (plural macerals)
- A component of coal or oil shale.
- Inertinite, vitrinite and liptinite are macerals.
Anagrams
- Maracle, cameral, caramel, ceramal, reclama
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