What does shale mean?

Definitions for shale
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shalenoun

    a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay

Wiktionary

  1. shalenoun

    A shell or husk; a cod or pod.

  2. shalenoun

    A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

  3. shaleverb

    To take off the shell or coat of.

  4. Etymology: schale 'shell, husk; scale', from scealu 'shell, husk, pod', from skalō (confer West Frisian skaal 'dish', Dutch schaal 'shell', German Schale 'husk, pod'), from (s)kelo- 'split, cleaved' (confer Lithuanian skalà 'splinter', Old Church Slavonic 'rock, stone', Albanian halë 'fish bone, splinter', Sanskrit 'small part'), from *(s)kel- 'to split, cleave' (confer Hittite iškalla 'to tear apart, slit open', Lithuanian skélti 'to split', Ancient Greek 'to hoe, harrow').

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Shalenoun

    A husk; the case of seeds in siliquous plants.

    Behold yon poor and starved band,
    And your fair shew shall suck away their souls,
    Leaving them but the shales and husks of men. William Shakespeare.

Wikipedia

  1. Shale

    Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. Shale is characterized by its tendency to split into thin layers (laminae) less than one centimeter in thickness. This property is called fissility. Shale is the most common sedimentary rock.The term shale is sometimes applied more broadly, as essentially a synonym for mudrock, rather than in the more narrow sense of clay-rich fissile mudrock.

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  1. shale

    Shale is a type of fine-grained sedimentary rock that is formed from the compaction of silt and clay-size mineral particles. It is characterized by its layered structure and mainly consists of compacted clay, quartz, and calcite. It is often used as a source of fossils, natural gas, and oil.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Shalenoun

    a shell or husk; a cod or pod

  2. Shalenoun

    a fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure

  3. Shaleverb

    to take off the shell or coat of; to shell

  4. Etymology: [AS. scealy, scalu. See Scalme, and cf. Shell.]

Wikidata

  1. Shale

    Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. The ratio of clay to other minerals is variable. Shale is characterized by breaks along thin laminae or parallel layering or bedding less than one centimeter in thickness, called fissility. Mudstones, on the other hand, are similar in composition but do not show the fissility.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Shale

    shāl, n. clay or argillaceous material, splitting readily into thin laminæ.—adj. Shā′ly. [Ger. schale, a scale.]

  2. Shale

    shāl, n. a shell or husk. [A.S. sceale.]

Editors Contribution

  1. shale

    Is a type of material.

    Some shale can be changed to oil or natural gas.


    Submitted by MaryC on September 9, 2015  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SHALE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Shale is ranked #118185 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Shale surname appeared 147 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Shale.

    63.9% or 94 total occurrences were White.
    14.2% or 21 total occurrences were Black.
    12.9% or 19 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    5.4% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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  1. hales

  2. halse

  3. heals

  4. leash

  5. Sahel

  6. Selah

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of shale in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of shale in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of shale in a Sentence

  1. Geir Tuft:

    We know that ethane from Geir Tuft shale gas has transformed Geir Tuft and we are now seeing this advantage being shared across Scotland.

  2. Michael Tran:

    The fall in U.S. shale production, particularly in Texas and North Dakota, will continue to overshadow the growth in the Gulf as shale production continues to fall at a steeper and steeper pace in the months to come.

  3. Ed Morse:

    They realize that at a price that's too high... U.S. shale production comes roaring back.

  4. Bill Thomas:

    It's no longer enough to be the low cost producer in U.S. horizontal shale, eOG's goal is to be competitive, low-cost oil producer in the global market.

  5. Shelley Moore:

    Right now gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale is being blocked by some of our neighboring states, which cuts off our markets in New England.

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