shale

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n. 页岩

发音

其它 /ʃeɪl/

词形变化

shales 复数 shales shaled shales 三单 shaling shaling 现在分词 shaled 过去式 shaled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod.

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  2. 2.

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

    页岩

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  3. 3.

    The shale oil and shale gas segment of the oil and gas industry.

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v.
  1. 1.

    To take off the shell or coat of.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

sedimentary rock

下位词 1

oil shale

相关短语

shale oil [化] 页岩油 shale gas 页岩气 shale gases shale oils shale shaker shale shakers shale pit shale pits oil shale n. [油气] 油页岩 black shale Burgess Shale bituminous shale [机] 沥青页岩 alum shale [化] 明矾页岩 red shale clay shale [化] 粘土页岩

词源

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”). See also West Frisian skaal (“dish”), Dutch schaal (“shell”), schalie (“shale”), German Schale (“husk, pod”); also Lithuanian skalà (“splinter”), Old Church Slavonic скала (skala, “rock, stone”), Polish skała (“rock”), Albanian halë (“fish bone, splinter”), Sanskrit कल (kalá, “small part”); also Hittite [script needed] (iškalla, “to tear apart, slit open”), Lithuanian skélti (“to split”), Ancient Greek σκάλλω (skállō, “to hoe, harrow”). Doublet of scale. See also shell.

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