Word Finder - chalk

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A soft, white, powdery limestone.

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A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.

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Tailor's chalk.

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A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk.

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A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.

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(horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.

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The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.

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To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.

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To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.

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To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.

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To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.

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To manure (land) with chalk.

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To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.

Let's chalk it up to an inactive spring.

Plicatulae have been found attached to these coprolites, showing that they were already hard bodies when lying at the bottom of the Chalk ocean.

On both these maps the hills are printed in grey chalk.

Should a bowl running jackwards touch the jack, however slightly, it is called a toucher and must be marked by the skip with a chalk cross as soon as it is at rest.

The telephone used was Edison's chalk cylinder or electromotograph type of telephone.

A cylinder of chalk was used in some of Edison's later experiments with this receiver.

Chalk should be applied in autumn, so that it may be split by the action of frost during the winter.

On the opposite side stood Dolokhov's Cossack, counting the prisoners and marking off each hundred with a chalk line on the gate.

We'll mark every corner, just as Martha did—not just stones but chalk, too.

And that other one with him, the Austrian, looked as if he were smeared with chalk--as white as flour!

And you, Theodore, get me a piece of chalk.

Lime is obtained from the Chalk and Greensand formations.

Marking the damp wall with chalk proved difficult, but they were satisfied the arrows were legible.

Petroleum and coal have been worked, and there is a rich yield of chalk, while a good quality of bricks is made from the xxii.

Chalk, from which blanc de Troyes is manufactured, and clay are abundant; and there are peat workings and quarries of building-stone and limestone.

The older formation of the Quaternary period is the Lafayette (also called "Orange-sand" or "stratified drift"), which immediately overlies all the Cretaceous groups except the prairies of the Selma chalk, and all the Tertiary except the Porters Creek and Vicksburg formations and parts of the Jackson.

The acid employed may be hydrochloric, which gives the best results, or sulphuric, which is used in Germany; sulphuric acid is more readily separated from the product than hydrochloric, since the addition of powdered chalk precipitates it as calcium sulphate, which may be removed by a filter press.

The manufacture of springs, valves and washers does not require any very special notice, these articles being generally fashioned out of mixed rubber, and vulcanized either in moulds or in powdered French chalk.

In the south-east, however, the Blackheath and Woolwich pebble-beds appear, with their belts of Thanet sands bordering the chalk.

A good bottom may be formed by chalk rammed down close.

An examination of the soil shows it to be composed of a vast number of small particles of sand, clay, chalk and humus, in which are generally imbedded larger or smaller stones.

Chalk consists, when quite pure, of calcium carbonate (CaC03), a white solid substance useful in small amounts as a plant foodmaterial, though in excess detrimental to growth.

The material which chemists call calcium carbonate is met with in a comparatively pure state in chalk.

Generally speaking the oxide or quicklime has a more rapid and greater effect in modifying the soil than slaked lime, and this again greater than the carbonate or chalk.

Granite and serpentine rocks predominate, but the shores of Amboyna Bay are of chalk, and contain stalactite caves.

It is an oldfashioned place on the skirts of Savernake Forest, lying in a valley of the chalk uplands known as Marlborough Downs, and traversed by the river Kennet.

A closer investigation of the numerous long, narrow banks which lie off the Flemish coast and the Thames estuary shows that they are composed of fragments of rock abraded and transported by tidal currents and storms in the same way that the chalk and limestone worn off from the eastern continuation of the island of Heligoland during the last two centuries has been reduced to the coarse gravel of the off-lying Dune.

There is even some hesitation in accepting the continuity of the chalk with the globigerina ooze of the modern ocean.

The actual coal measure strata, consisting mainly of shales and clays, are generally impervious to water, but when strata of a permeable character are sunk through, such as the magnesian limestone of the north of England, the Permian sandstones of the central counties, or the chalk and greensand in the north of France and Westphalia, special methods are required in order to pass the water-bearing beds, and to protect the shaft and workings from the influx of water subsequently.

It stands on a wooded upland, amid the chalk downs of Salisbury Plain.

Geologically the region is made up of Carboniferous limestones, clay slates and sandstones, containing anthracite and coal; of Cretaceous marls, chalk, sandstone and greensands - chalk cliffs, in fact, accompany the Don for 200 m.; and of Miocene limestones and clays.

In the Chalk of the south-east of England nodules of marcasite with a fibrous radiated structure are abundant, and in the Chalk Marl between Dover and Folkestone fine twinned groups of "spear pyrites" are common.

Phosphates occur in Belgium, especially near Mons, and these, like those of north-east France, are principally in the Upper Chalk.

Large and valuable deposits of the sand have been obtained in sinks and depressions on the surface of the chalk.

The Cambridge Greensand, rich in phosphatic nodules, occurs at the base of the Chalk Marl.

The chalk occasionally becomes phosphatized, as at Taplow (Bucks) and Lewes (Sussex).

Right back into British and even older times the main direction which commerce and travellers followed across southern and western England to the Straits of Dover and the Continent lay from Canterbury along the southern chalk slope of the North Downs to near Guildford, then by the Hog's Back to Farnham.

From Pegwell Bay south to a point near Deal the coast is flat, and the drained marshes or levels of the lower Stour extend to the west; but thence the coast rises again into chalk cliffs, the eastward termination of the North Downs, the famous white cliffs which form the nearest point of England to continental Europe, overlooking the Strait of Dover.

The plastic clay, which rests chiefly on chalk, occupies the remainder of the estuary of the Thames, but at several places it is broken through by outcrops of chalk, which in some instances run northwards to the banks of the river.

The Thanet beds resting on chalk form a narrow outcrop rising into cliffs at Pegwell Bay and Reculver, and consist (1) of a constant base bed of clayey greenish sand, seldom more than 5 ft.

The middle series of the Lower Tertiaries, known as the Woolwich and Reading beds, rests either on the Thanet beds or on chalk, and consists chiefly of irregular alternations of clay and sand of very various colours, the former often containing estuarine and oyster shells and the latter flint pebbles.

This is par excellence the chalk formation of the United States.

When pure chalk or limestone is "burned," i.e.

United States timber is marked with red chalk on the sides.

The underlying bedrock is chalk, with overlying river gravels.

The chalk bedrock was reached 196 feet from the surface.

The two resorts are different enough to make chalk and cheese seem almost indistinguishable.

Up ahead loom chalk hills blocking our path down to the sea.

I also work on portrait drawings in pencil, charcoal or chalk pastel.

Did you ever hear the terrible squeak of chalk on an old dry blackboard?