Slate

Theme list: slate with definitions

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FRONT	WORD	BACK	DEFINITION
—	FAN	EGOS	[v. FANNED, FANNING, FANS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
—	ZAX	—	[n. -ES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.
—	DRUB	S	[v. DRUBBED, DRUBBING°, DRUBS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
—	SLAT	ESY	[v. SLATTED, SLATTING°, SLATS] [Wiktionary - Sense 4] A thin piece of stone; a slate.
—	SLOT	HS	[v. SLOTTED, SLOTTING, SLOTS] [Wiktionary - Sense 23] A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
—	BLIND	S	[a. BLINDER°, BLINDEST] [Wiktionary - Sense 15] A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
—	SLATE	DRSY	[v. SLATED, SLATING°, SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 3] 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.
—	SLATS	—	[v. SLATTED, SLATTING°, SLATS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] plural of slat
—	SLATY	—	[a. SLATIER, SLATIEST] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Resembling the rock slate.
—	TONGS	—	[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
—	TORCH	Y	[v. -ED, -ING, -ES] [Wiktionary - Sense 20] To point (“fill up and bring to a smooth finish”) (inside joints of slates laid on laths) using lime hair mortar.
—	ZAXES	—	[n. -ES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.
—	BASALT	S	[n. -S] · a volcanic rock - BASALTIC [a.]
—	QUARRY	—	[v. -RIED, -RYING°, -RIES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
—	SCHIST	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.
—	SLATED	—	[v. SLATED, SLATING°, SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 3] covered with slates
—	SLATER	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
—	SLATES	—	[v. SLATED, SLATING°, SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] plural of slate
—	SLATEY	—	[a. SLATIER, SLATIEST] · slaty «resembling slate» / ----- { slatey slatier slatiest slaty }
—	EUPHROE	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A long wooden slat, with holes for cords, that holds up an awning.
—	RESLATE	DS	[v. -SLATED, -SLATING, -SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To replace the slates of.
—	RIFFLER	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A mechanical device consisting of a metal box with a series of vertical slats through which material is poured and randomly divided into two samples; this process is repeated to obtain a small representative sample of a bulk material.
—	SLATERS	—	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] plural of slater
—	SLATIER	—	[a. SLATIER, SLATIEST] · slaty «resembling slate» / ----- { slatey slatier slatiest slaty }
—	SLATING	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Slates collectively.
—	SLATTED	—	[v. SLATTED, SLATTING°, SLATS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Of or pertaining to a slat
—	RESLATED	—	[v. -SLATED, -SLATING, -SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To replace the slates of.
—	RESLATES	—	[v. -SLATED, -SLATING, -SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To replace the slates of.
—	SLATIEST	—	[a. SLATIER, SLATIEST] · slaty «resembling slate» / ----- { slatey slatier slatiest slaty }
—	SLATINGS	—	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] plural of slating
—	SLATTING	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] present participle and gerund of slat
—	ARGILLITE	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A fine-grained sedimentary rock, intermediate between shale and slate, sometimes used as a building material
—	CROSSBUCK	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A sign consisting of two slats on a pole forming a diagonal cross, usually indicating a level crossing.
—	GNEISSOID	—	[a.] · © resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss
—	JALOUSIED	—	[a.] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Fitted with jalousies (window slats).
—	MARBLEIZE	DS	[v. -IZED, -IZING, -IZES] · © to stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron / ----- { marble § marbles § marbelize marbelized marbelizes marbelizing marble marbled marbleise marbleised marbleises marbleising marbleize marbleized marbleizes marbleizing marbles marbling § marble marbled }
—	PIPESTONE	S	[n. -S] · © a kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians~ into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite
—	RESLATING	—	[v. -SLATED, -SLATING, -SLATES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] To replace the slates of.
—	SILICOSES	—	[n. -COSES] · (pathology) a form of pneumoconiosis caused by breathing in tiny particles of silica, quartz, or slate, and characterized by shortness of breath and fibrotic changes in the tissues of the lungs
—	SILICOSIS	—	[n. -COSES] · (pathology) a form of pneumoconiosis caused by breathing in tiny particles of silica, quartz, or slate, and characterized by shortness of breath and fibrotic changes in the tissues of the lungs
—	SLATELIKE	—	[a.] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Resembling slate.
—	SLATINESS	—	[n. -ES] · Derivative of slaty «consisting of or resembling slate»
—	SLATTINGS	—	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] present participle and gerund of slat
—	XYLOPHONE	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
—	ARGILLITES	—	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A fine-grained sedimentary rock, intermediate between shale and slate, sometimes used as a building material
—	BLACKBOARD	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard.
—	CHALKBOARD	S	[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A slate or enamel board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.
—	MARBLEIZED	—	[v. -IZED, -IZING, -IZES] · © to stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron / ----- { marble § marbles § marbelize marbelized marbelizes marbelizing marble marbled marbleise marbleised marbleises marbleising marbleize marbleized marbleizes marbleizing marbles marbling § marble marbled }
—	MARBLEIZES	—	[v. -IZED, -IZING, -IZES] · © to stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron / ----- { marble § marbles § marbelize marbelized marbelizes marbelizing marble marbled marbleise marbleised marbleises marbleising marbleize marbleized marbleizes marbleizing marbles marbling § marble marbled }
—	NOVACULITE	S	[n. -S] · © a variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate
—	PIPESTONES	—	[n. -S] · © a kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians~ into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite
—	MARBLEIZING	—	[v. -IZED, -IZING, -IZES] · © to stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron / ----- { marble § marbles § marbelize marbelized marbelizes marbelizing marble marbled marbleise marbleised marbleises marbleising marbleize marbleized marbleizes marbleizing marbles marbling § marble marbled }
—	NOVACULITES	—	[n. -S] · © a variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate
—	SLATINESSES	—	[n. -ES] · Derivative of slaty «consisting of or resembling slate»

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