shale
To take off the shell or coat ofTo take off the shell or coat of.
» Algeria has massive quantities of shale oil that could be extracted through fracking.
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1 sensesTo take off the shell or coat of.
entspelzen, schälen, enthülsen
Examples
12 sentencesAlgeria has massive quantities of shale oil that could be extracted through fracking.
Fracking is a type of geo-engineering to get oil out of shale.
The geologist noted a tabular layer of anthracite running between two bands of shale.
Shale gas is more expensive than conventional gas.
Shale rock is a sedimentary rock made up of clay, compacted together by pressure.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
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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Forms
shales, shaling, shaled, shaledSynonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.