Meaning of Slate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of slating (“a harsh criticism”).
   dated, transitive
2. A dirty or slovenly person.
   Northern-England, Scotland, archaic, derogatory, obsolete, rare, transitive
3. A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers.
   countable, uncountable
4. A piece of such stone, usually cut into a rectangular shape, used as a tile for flooring, roofing, etc.; (uncountable) such tiles collectively, or the material from which they are made.
   countable, uncountable
5. A surname.
6. A piece of other material used as a roofing tile.
   countable, uncountable
7. 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.
   broadly, countable, uncountable
8. Synonym of tablet computer (“a hand-held portable computer in the form of a tablet with a touch screen interface”).
   broadly, countable, uncountable
9. 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”).
   broadly, countable, uncountable
10. A sequentially numbered session of recording a film.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
11. Information about a film recording which is inserted at the start of the recording, or printed on a videotape label etc.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
12. A record, for example, of money owed.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
13. A range of things; also, a schedule.
    US, countable, figuratively, uncountable
14. A collection of films released during a certain period, either from one studio or from a certain film industry (such as Hollywood) as a whole.
    US, countable, figuratively, uncountable
15. A group or list of candidates for appointment or election to an office; also, a group of candidates or electors with affiliated political views.
    US, countable, figuratively, uncountable
16. A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
    uncountable
17. The bluish-grey colour of most slate (etymology 1 sense 4).
    uncountable

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Examples

“Some of the minor Welsh 2 ft. gauge railways, we hear from Mr. N. F. G. Dalston, are enjoying a miniature boom owing to the demand for slate for the repair of damaged roofs.”

“In 1765 only 80 men were employed, and the annual output of slates did not exceed 1,000 tons, and large-scale quarrying was not begun by Lord Penrhyn until 1782.”

“The necessary works were extensive and included replacing missing and damaged slates and other roof repairs (in order to make the building watertight), pointing and drainpipe replacement, and extensive replacement of rotten floorboarding.”

“He wrote all down one side of the slate and all up the other, and then remarked--"As there's no time to finish that, The time has come to have our chat."”

“Hearing Steve Ballmer and others talk about the availability of Windows 8 on slates, laptops, netbooks, notebooks, and screens from 7 to 70 inches might lead us to believe that Microsoft is attempting to gain market share solely through […]”

“Put it on my slate—I’ll pay you next week.”

“The Chairman James Kaplan tended to his busy slate of record and film projects, while Mia, too, actively sought movie work, somewhat to her husband's chagrin.”

“If it sounds like an impossibly busy slate, it turned out to be just that.”

“Like many independents that have established a strong if narrow niche, Central Park says it prospers when "A" titles are in short supply, but Pascuzzi much prefers a crowded slate because of trickle-down economics.”

“MVL Film Finance LLC (MVL) was created to partially finance Marvel Studios' production of a slate of 10 live-action or animated films based on up to 10 of Marvel's comic book characters[…]”

“This overcrowded blockbuster slate has led to the death of the respectable mid-budget movie, which has arguably migrated to prestige television along with writers, directors and actors.”

“Ice is one of a slate of young, idealistic candidates for Move Forward who have joined mainstream politics in the hope that this election allows Thailand to break the cycle of military coups […]”

“The Penrhyn slate quarry possibly dates back to the sixteenth century, as it appears that in 1580 Sion Tudor asked the Bishop of Bangor for a shipload of slate.”

“[Thomas] Carlyle's savage "slate" of him [Frederick Marryat] is unjust to a degree which can only be palliated by the fact that it was founded on a hasty reading of his books in the evil days after the loss of the manuscript of the French Revolution.”

“Had aff [hold off], quoth ſhe, ye filthy Slate, / Ye ſtink o' Leeks, O figh!”

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