EGAVE

slate

About 3.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers. A piece of such stone, usually cut into a rectangular shape, used as a tile for flooring, roofing, etc.; such tiles collectively, or the material from which they are made. A piece of other material used as a roofing tile.
  2. noun A piece of such stone, usually cut into a rectangular shape, used as a tile for flooring, roofing, etc.; such tiles collectively, or the material from which they are made.
  3. noun A piece of other material used as a roofing tile.
  4. noun A generally rectangular piece, originally of certain types of stone and now of other materials, often in a frame, used for writing on with a thin rod of the same or another stone (a slate pencil) or with chalk; a small chalkboard.
  5. noun A generally rectangular piece, originally of certain types of stone and now of other materials, often in a frame, used for writing on with a thin rod of the same or another stone (a slate pencil) or with chalk; a small chalkboard.
  6. noun Synonym of tablet computer (“a hand-held portable computer in the form of a tablet with a touch screen interface”).
  7. noun Synonym of clapperboard (“a device consisting of a board on which information about a film being recorded is noted, and a hinged piece which is brought down on the board with a clap at the start and end of each take of the film; it is used to synchronize picture and sound during editing”). A sequentially numbered session of recording a film. Information about a film recording which is inserted at the start of the recording, or printed on a videotape label etc.
  8. noun Synonym of clapperboard (“a device consisting of a board on which information about a film being recorded is noted, and a hinged piece which is brought down on the board with a clap at the start and end of each take of the film; it is used to synchronize picture and sound during editing”). A sequentially numbered session of recording a film. Information about a film recording which is inserted at the start of the recording, or printed on a videotape label etc.

Similar words

stone talcose range roofing plaque shale plate table blackboard chalkboard

Often followed by

of and is or roof in clean was roofs

Word family

slated slatelike slates slating

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