Word Finder - slate

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A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.

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The bluish-grey colour of most slate.

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A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools

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A roofing-tile made of slate.

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A record of money owed.

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Put it on my slate – I’ll pay you next week.

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A list of affiliated candidates for an election.

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Roy Disney led the alternative slate of directors for the stockholder vote.

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An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.

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A thin plate of any material; a flake.

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Having the bluish-grey/gray colour of slate.

He's got a blank slate for a lifetime of memory.

Slate is obtained in large quantities from the departments of Maine-ct-Loire (Angers), Ardennes (Fumay) and Mayenne (Renaz).

Iron, coal and slate are the chief products, and copper and cobalt may be added.

Many of the block mountains of the Great Basin are of complicated internal structure, showing rocks of all ages - slate, limestone, quartzites, granite, multi-coloured volcanic rocks, and large areas of lava overflow.

I'm here in one piece, sort of, and you've given me a clean slate to begin act two of my life.

In 1908 the value of slate produced was $1,710,491 (out of a total production for the United States of $6,316,817).

The dark bituminous layers of clay slate, which occur intercalated among the quartzites, have led, here as elsewhere, to the hope of coming upon a seam of coal, but it is contrary to experience that coal of any value should be found in rocks of that age.

The Daniell type consists of a teak trough divided into five cells by slate partitions coated with marine glue.

Thousands of workmen are employed in the slate quarries.

The industries of the town include manufactures of cotton, silk, earthenware, machinery and tobacco, with brass and iron founding; while slate and stone are quarried, and there are coal, iron and lead mines in the neighbourhood.

Industries include slate quarrying, shipbuilding, iron and brass foundries, alum, vitriol, manure, guano and tobacco works.

Howie doesn't remember any details of his prior life; family; studying for the priest hood, college... a blank slate and he can't find the chalk.

There are many large slate quarries in this parish, especially at Blaenau Festiniog, the junction of three railways, London & North Western, Great Western and Festiniog, a narrow-gauge line between Portmadoc and Duffws.

Henry took his slate and went out.

The sedimentary deposits include slate, limestone and sandstone.

He was tall and clothed in all black, ominous and large against the slate sky.

The Falkland Islands consist entirely, so far as is known, of the older Palaeozoic rocks, Lower Devonian or Upper Silurian, slightly metamorphosed and a good deal crumpled and distorted, in the low grounds clay slate and soft sandstone, and on the ridges hardened sandstone passing into the conspicuous white quartzites.

She knew, too, that I sometimes write "letters to blind girls" on the slate; but I didn't suppose that she had any clear idea what a letter was.

Some people said that they were what Henry Longfellow wrote on his slate that day at school.

There are black slate deposits near Martinsburg.

The industries of the Lake District include slate quarrying and some lead and zinc mining, and weaving, bobbin-making and pencil-making.

A thriving export trade is carried on in agricultural produce, condensed milk is manufactured, and slate is extensively quarried in the neighbourhood, while some coal is exported from the neighbouring fields.

Here are extensive slate quarries belonging to Lord Penrhyn.

Slate quarries and copper and tin mines were formerly valuable.

Slate is a soft sedimentary rock, which easily splits into thin layers.

Dusty glanced up at the sky, where the clouds had gone from black to slate.

On a mission to ensure there was a clean slate between his mate and Darkyn, Gabriel waited in the middle of Deidre's old apartment for the Dark One to arrive.

It is deeper and more sandy where granite is the underlying rock, deeper and more fertile on the north-western than on the south-eastern mountain slopes, and shallower and more clayey where slate is the underlying rock.

Evidence of the same kind is afforded by the shape of the knots and concretions sometimes present in the slate.

There are slate quarries, with lead and copper mines.

A simple hardwood timber walkway spans the water, connecting the entrance with an oval of site salvaged slate defining the public/private transition point.

Features include travertine tiled flooring and slate window sills.

The majority of the wind uplift load on the exposed section of the slate is transferred to the copper tail rivet.

The juice flowed into slate lined tanks before being pumped uphill into wooden fermenting vats.

The name "cololites" (from the Greek K Xov, the large intestine, XLBos, stone) was given by Agassiz to fossil wormlike bodies, found in the lithographic slate of Solenhofen, which he determined to be either the petrified intestines or contents of the intestines of fishes.

The mountain group of North Wales is the largest and loftiest; its scenery resembles that of the Scottish Highlands because of the juxtaposition of ancient Palaeozoic rocks - Cambrian and Ordovician, often altered into slate - and contemporaneous volcanic outbursts and igneous intrusions.

Before the half hour was ended he had written a very neat composition on his slate.

Words and images came tripping to my finger ends, and as I thought out sentence after sentence, I wrote them on my braille slate.

When she saw the braille slate and paper, she said, "I will write many letters, and I will thank Santa Claus very much."

In the early 1800s they rebuilt much of the village, in part to house workers for the nearby slate quarries.

On several of the hills are quarries of slate of good quality, the working of which affords remunerative employment to many laborers.

Rivets The copper tail rivet located in the tail of a standard slate is normally located in the joint between the two lower slates.

A piece of slate yields roofing slates at the rate of four to just over the inch.

Other versions include shearling jackets; houndstooth trenches and boxy single-breasted wool coats in shades of black, slate and pale smoke gray.

The WC blocks are clad in smooth Welsh slate, with the shower cubicles marked out in bright blue.

Leading up to the present church with its slate roof is a row of horse chestnut trees.

Extracts from the Laws are carved on slate slabs in the Center garden.

Finish off with a mulch of fine gravel, frosted glass or slate chippings.

The slate walls and roof provide a stunning backdrop and as you would expect, outstanding accoustics !

He is made of gray welsh slate to make his scales, or he will be when he is finished !