slate : Idioms & Phrases

• (Min.), a kind of slate of a greenish gray color, which absorbs water rapidly, and adheres to the tongue; whence the name.

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• (Min.), a kind of slate containing sulphate of alumina, used in the manufacture of alum.

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• (Min.), a soft species of sectile clay slate, impregnated with bitumen.

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• the distance between the top of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three thicknesses; also, the distance between the nail of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate.

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• a schistose or slaty rock consisting of alumina, iron, and magnesia.

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• (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite.

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• noun an opportunity to start over without prejudice
  fresh start; tabula rasa.
  

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• a soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; called also black chalk, or drawing chalk.

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• See Polishing slate.

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• a gray, siliceous stone.

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• (Min.), a slaty rock, consisting essentially of hornblende and feldspar, useful for flagging on account of its toughness.

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• . (Naut.) See Log board (above).

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• (Geol.), a schistose rock, consisting of mica and quartz with, usually, some feldspar.

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• . (a) A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals . (b) A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate.

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• a mattock with an ax end, used in shaping slates for roofs, and making holes in them for the nails.

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• (Geol.), an indurated clay, forming one of the alternating beds of the coal measures, consisting of an infusible compound of alumina and silica, and often used for making fire bricks. Tomlinson.

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• noun a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas)
  

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• a globe the surface of which is made of an artificial slatelike material.

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• noun a pencil of soft slate (or soapstone) used for writing on a slate
  

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• a pencil of slate, or of soapstone, used for writing on a slate.

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• (Min.), rocks which split into thin laminæ, not necessarily parallel to the stratification; foliated rocks.

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• noun a roof covered with slate
  

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• (Min.), a variety of calcite of silvery white luster and of a slaty structure.

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• adjective satellite of a black tinged with slate-grey
  

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Slate"-col`or

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1. A dark bluish gray color.

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• noun common North American junco having grey plumage and eyes with dark brown irises
  dark-eyed junco; Junco hyemalis.
  

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• adjective satellite of the color of slate or granite
  stone-gray; slaty-gray; slate-gray; slatey; slaty; slaty-grey; stone-grey.
  
  • the slaty sky of dawn

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Slate"-gray` adjective

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1. Of a dark gray, like slate.

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• adjective satellite of the color of slate or granite
  stone-gray; slaty-gray; slate-gray; slatey; slaty; slaty-grey; stone-grey.
  
  • the slaty sky of dawn

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• a plate of translucent material, as ground glass, upon which a copy of a picture, placed beneath it, can be made by tracing.

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• (Min.), a variety of slate used for sharpening cutting instruments; novaculite; called also whetstone slate, and oilstone.

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