English-Thai Dictionary

shale

N แผ่น หิน  ชั้น แผ่น หิน  schistous clay silt rock pan-hin

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHALE

v.t.To peel. [Not in use. See Shell. ]

 

SHALE

n. 1. A shell or husk.
2. In natural history, a species of shist or shistous clay; slate clay; generall of a bluish or yellowish gray color, more rarely of a dark blackish or reddish gray, or grayish black, or greenish color. Its fracture is slaty, and in water it molders into powder. It is often found in strata in coal mines, and commonly bears vegetable impressions. It is generally the forerunner of coal.
Bituminous shale is is a subvariety of argillaceous slate, is impregnated with bitumen, and burns with flame.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SHALE

Shale, n. Etym: [AS. scealy, scalu. See Scalme, and cf. Shell. ]

 

1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean. " Chapman.

 

2. Etym: [G. shale. ] (Geol.)

 

Defn: A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous.

 

SHALE

SHALE Shale, v. t.

 

Defn: To take off the shell or coat of; to shell. Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or was shaling off its husk. I. Taylor.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

shale

shale |SHāl ʃeɪl | ▶noun soft, finely stratified sedimentary rock that formed from consolidated mud or clay and can be split easily into fragile slabs. DERIVATIVES shal y (also shaley ) adjective ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: probably from German Schale; related to English dialect shale ‘dish ’ (see scale 2 ).

 

shale oil

shale oil ▶noun oil obtained from bituminous shale.

 

Oxford Dictionary

shale

shale |ʃeɪl | ▶noun [ mass noun ] soft finely stratified sedimentary rock that formed from consolidated mud or clay and can be split easily into fragile plates. DERIVATIVES shaly (also shaley ) adjective ( shalier, shaliest ) ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: probably from German Schale; related to English dialect shale ‘dish ’ (see scale 2 ).

 

shale oil

shale oil ▶noun [ mass noun ] oil obtained from bituminous shale.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

shale

shale /ʃeɪl /名詞 U 〘地 〙頁岩 （けつがん ）, 泥板岩 〘堆積 （たいせき ）岩の1つ 〙▸ shale oil 頁岩油 .