Shale vs. Clay

Shalenoun

A shell or husk; a cod or pod.

Shalenoun

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

Shaleverb

To take off the shell or coat of.

Shalenoun

A shell or husk; a cod or pod.

Shalenoun

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

Shaleverb

To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.

Shalenoun

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

Shalenoun

soft finely stratified sedimentary rock that formed from consolidated mud or clay and can be split easily into fragile plates.

Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock, formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. Shale is characterized by its tendency to split into thin layers (laminae) less than one centimeter in thickness.

Claynoun

A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.

Claynoun

An earth material with ductile qualities.

Claynoun

(tennis) A tennis court surface.

Claynoun

(biblical) The material of the human body.

Claynoun

(geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

Claynoun

A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.

Claynoun

A clay pigeon.

Claynoun

(informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region.

Clayverb

(transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.

Clayverb

To purify using clay.

Claynoun

A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.

Claynoun

Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.

Clayverb

To cover or manure with clay.

Clayverb

To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

Claynoun

a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

Claynoun

water soaked soil; soft wet earth

Claynoun

United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)

Claynoun

United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)

Claynoun

the dead body of a human being

Claynoun

a stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics

Claynoun

sediment with particles smaller than silt, typically less than 0.002 mm.

Claynoun

a hardened clay surface for a tennis court

Claynoun

the substance of the human body

Claynoun

a European moth with yellowish-brown wings.

Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay particles, but become hard, brittle and non–plastic upon drying or firing.