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Slate   /sleɪt/   Listen
Slate

noun
1.
(formerly) a writing tablet made of slate.
2.
Thin layers of rock used for roofing.  Synonym: slating.
3.
A fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers.
4.
A list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices.  Synonym: ticket.
verb
(past & past part. slated; pres. part. slating)
1.
Designate or schedule.  "She was slated to be his successor"
2.
Enter on a list or slate for an election.
3.
Cover with slate.



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"Slate" Quotes from Famous Books



... They are all of the same era, and possibly the work of the same hand, being among the most interesting of our Norman fonts. The material of which they are made has never been settled, some authorities defining it as Tournai marble, others as basalt, and yet others as nothing more than slate. ...
— Winchester • Sidney Heath
... Rain drummed against the slate roof of Peter's house and reverberated through the rooms to where Mirestone and the Dutchman sat by the fire in silence. Mirestone broke the still atmosphere by putting forth a question that Peter somehow knew would be coming ...
— The White Feather Hex • Don Peterson
... the manuscript, or substituted a wrong one, were alike worthy of remark. And when at last, endeavouring to communicate with the deaf gentleman by means of the finger alphabet, with which he constructed such words as are unknown in any civilised or savage language, he took up a slate and wrote in large text, one word in a line, the question, 'How - do - you - like - it?' - when he did this, and handing it over the table awaited the reply, with a countenance only brightened and improved by his great excitement, even Mr. Miles relaxed, and could not forbear looking ...
— Master Humphrey's Clock • Charles Dickens
... despite its tiny size, had no uniform system of roofing; in some spots tiles were substituted by strips of tin with heavy rocks holding them in place and the interstices chinked with straw; in others, the slate was mortared together with mud; in still others, sheets of zinc ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja
... unmarked byways running through a distressingly poor-looking and apparently quite thinly inhabited country. After a deal of studying the map and the infrequent sign-boards we brought up in a desolate-looking little village, merely a row of gray stone, slate-roofed houses on either side of the way, and devoid of a single touch of the picturesque which so often atones for the poverty of the English cottages. No plot of shrubbery or flower-garden broke the gray monotony ...
— British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car - Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, - Wales And Scotland • Thomas D. Murphy


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