Shells vs Shale - What's the difference?
shells | shale |
(shell)
A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
* Chapman
(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 23, author=Patricia Leigh Brown, title=The Window Box Gets Some Tough Competition, work=New York Times
, passage=As on all large green roofs, the soil is not dirt exactly but a gravel-like growing medium of granulated pumice, shales , clays and other minerals.}}
To take off the shell or coat of.
As nouns the difference between shells and shale
is that shells is while shale is saddle.As a verb shells
is (shell).shells
English
Noun
(head)- She sells sea shells''' by the sea shore, but the '''shells''' she sells aren't sea '''shells , I'm sure.
Verb
(head)- She shells six sea shells.
shale
English
(wikipedia shale)Noun
(en noun)- the green shales of a bean
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