Значение

значений: 3
  1. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)A shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod.

  2. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

    Tonstein, Ölschiefer, Schieferton

    сла́нецslánec

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

  3. (исчисляемое, метонимически, неисчисляемое)The shale oil and shale gas segment of the oil and gas industry.

Примеры

предложений: 12
  1. United States shale gas production is one of the worst ongoing ecological disasters.

    Производство сланцевого газа в США - одна из острейших существующих экологических проблем. — AndrewSim

  2. Algeria has massive quantities of shale oil that could be extracted through fracking.

  3. Fracking is a type of geo-engineering to get oil out of shale.

  4. The geologist noted a tabular layer of anthracite running between two bands of shale.

  5. Shale gas is more expensive than conventional gas.

Переводы

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Русский
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Deutsch
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Происхождение

From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English sċealu (“shell, husk,

From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English sċealu (“shell, husk, pod”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalu, from Proto-Germanic *skalō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”), from *(s)kel- (“to split, cleave”).

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Формы

мн. число: shales
Ед. числоshale
Мн. числоshales

правильный

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 19

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