Sale vs Shale - What's the difference?
sale | shale |
An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
The sale of goods at reduced prices.
The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
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(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
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To take off the shell or coat of.
As nouns the difference between sale and shale
is that sale is splinter while shale is saddle.sale
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) sale, sal, from (etyl) . Related also to (l), (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) sale, from (etyl) .Noun
(s)Derived terms
* for sale * on sale * regular sales * salesman * sales pitchTroponyms
* (selling of goods at reduced prices) cut-rate sale, sales event * (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder) auction, public saleAnagrams
* ----shale
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(wikipedia shale)Noun
(en noun)- the green shales of a bean
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