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Shale vs Slaty - What's the difference?

shale | slaty |

As a noun shale

is saddle.

As an adjective slaty is

resembling the mineral slate.

shale

English

(wikipedia shale)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
  • * Chapman
    • the green shales of a bean
  • (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 citation
    • , 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.}}

    Derived terms

    * shaley * * shaly

    Verb

    (shal)
  • To take off the shell or coat of.

    • Synonyms

    * shell

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    slaty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling the mineral slate.
  • * 1933-03 , Clark Ashton Smith, , Weird Tales :
    • Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars.

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