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Associations to the word «Shale»

Wiktionary

SHALE, noun. A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
SHALE, noun. (geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
SHALE, verb. To take off the shell or coat of.
SHALE GAS, noun. Natural gas extracted from shale.
SHALE OIL, noun. A synthetic crude oil obtained by the pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution of oil shale.
SHALE OIL, noun. A crude oil obtained from low permeability petroleum-bearing formations (shales), known as tight oil.

Dictionary definition

SHALE, noun. A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats