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blackboard
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Word definitions for blackboard in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. sheet of slate; for writing with chalk [syn: chalkboard ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard. vb. To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A blackboard (also known as a chalkboard ) is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulfate or calcium carbonate , known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, from black + board (n.1). Blackboard jungle "inner-city school rife with juvenile delinquency" is from Evan Hunter's novel title (1954).
Usage examples of blackboard.
I began to wake in the middle of the nights from the sound of chalk on blackboard rattling in my dreams.
Eleven bodies crowded along the blackboard at the side of the room, grabbing chalk from one another.
I walked away to the other side of the room and stood there next to the blackboard, looking at Luke.
Averitt placed the stub of his chalk down on the little ledge under the blackboard and tried unsuccessfully to rub the white dust of his hands.
One of the squadron enlisted men was writing the weather on the blackboard along with some general target information.
The next day as we sat on the floor under the blackboard Alice was marched past us between two nurses on her way to maximum security.
The ugly living room, the bedrooms stuffed with bureaus and chairs and blankets and pillows, an aide leaning out of the nursing station talking to Polly, the white chalk in its dish below the blackboard waiting for us to sign ourselves in: home again.
He stood at the blackboard with a piece of chalk in his hand, a little bug-eyed man of forty-five with a big bulb of head growing out on the stem of his thin neck like an overripe spring onion, to give his talk on the fourth dimension.
Everything working out to perfection with a pencil and a piece of paper, or a blackboard and some chalk.
As solid and impenetrable as the brick wall behind this blackboard in front of me.
His hand went in through the blackboard, following the swift line he had been drawing, and which had receded in.
He had drawn a three dimensional cube on the blackboard, ABCDEFGH, like the outline of a glass box seen in perspective.
Communicating with her altogether by the blackboard, he drew from her a host of examples of the beauty of his system of transcendent multiplication.
From the mountebanks point of view a pretty little deaf and dumb daughter, who could work miracles on the blackboard, was a treasure to a practical mind.
He no longer sat motionless behind his desk: like a dancing bear he hopped about between bookcase and blackboard, seized the sponge and effaced the just outlined itineraries of the Goths.