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Sheet of slate
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chalkboard
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Word definitions for chalkboard in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
chalkboard \chalk"board`\ (ch[add]k"b[=o]rd`), n. a dark sheet of slate used as a surface for writing on, with chalk. Syn: blackboard.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A slate board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chalkboard is a font released by Apple in 2003. It was released as part of Mac OS X v10.3 and the 10.2.8 update . It is regularly compared to Microsoft's Comic Sans font, which has shipped with Mac OS since Mac OS 8.6 in 1999, although it is not a perfect ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. sheet of slate; for writing with chalk [syn: blackboard ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also chalk-board , 1816, from chalk (n.) + board (n.1).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A chalkboard with scribbled house specials changes daily. ▪ Ask another student to stand at the chalkboard and keep track of how much salt you add to the water. ▪ Lunch here features a fixed menu of sandwiches, salads and individual ...
Usage examples of chalkboard.
Weather reports came in, Luis wrote their contents on a chalkboard: low cloud cover, threatening thunderstorms across the area, hot and steamy along the ground.
Hatch stopped at the chalkboard, scanning the prices for the various grades of lobster: shedders, hard-shelled, chickens, selects, and culls.
A solidly built man - the only black deputy Rhyme had seen - wheeled in a large chalkboard and unfolded a map of Paquenoke County.
Megan glanced around the war room with the time line and the messages written out and the chalkboard for brainstorming with names and motives and question marks.
Once, there had been a tiny table and chairs, a small chalkboard, a bookshelf, a bin filled with toys.
In order to communicate with the rest of the family, he kept a little chalkboard with him at all times.
Mute, carrying his pitiful chalkboard around, lost in his restoration of Sappho, Lefty had begun to seem old to his son.
A faded chalkboard resting against the inside window displayed specials that never changed.
Longarm decided on his own selection from the menu posted on a slate chalkboard, then waited for the waiter to get out of hearing distance before he brought up the reason for his visit.
She couldn't see who was driving the first one but the deputy in the passenger seat - the black deputy who'd set up the chalkboard for Rhyme - was squinting as he scanned the woods.
He stared hard at the chalkboard, at the thick white circle around Albert Fletcher's name.
The others followed him, through the hallway narrowed by bookshelves and chalkboards, to his own room where a light still burned.
Green chalkboards must have been on sale somewhere at a discount, for there appeared to be a dozen of them scattered about the house.
As he lectured, he gestured with a stub of chalk at complex biochemical formulae and nucleotide sequences scattered across the huge sliding chalkboards, indecipherable as cuneiform.
There was also a good supply of pubs, most of which had chalkboards near the doors to advertise their food.