different between silt vs shale

English

Etymology

From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile +? -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sulze, Sülze (“brine”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultij? (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

silt (countable and uncountable, plural silts)

1. (uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

   Synonym: slitch

2. (uncountable, by extension) Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport.
3. (countable, geology) A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

Translations

See also

• alluvium
• varve

Verb

silt (third-person singular simple present silts, present participle silting, simple past and past participle silted)

1. (transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
2. (intransitive) To become clogged with silt.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To flow through crevices; to percolate.

Derived terms

• silt up
• silting
• desilt and desilting

Translations

Anagrams

• &lits, List, list, lits, slit, tils

Dutch

Noun

silt n (plural silten)

1. (geology) silt

Derived terms

• siltsteen

Anagrams

• list, stil

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English silt

Noun

silt (definite singular silten)

1. silt

Derived terms

• siltstein

References

• “silt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English silt

Noun

silt (definite singular silten)

1. silt

Derived terms

• siltstein

References

• “silt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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)

1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
   • c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia

     the green shales of a bean

2. (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)

1. 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

1. bus