All slate synonyms
slate
S s noun slate
- ballot β A ballot is a secret vote in which people select a candidate in an election, or express their opinion about something.
- catalogue β A catalogue is a list of things such as the goods you can buy from a particular company, the objects in a museum, or the books in a library.
- gambrel β the hock of an animal, especially of a horse.
- gazetteer β a geographical dictionary.
- list β Friedrich [free-drik] /Λfri drΙͺk/ (Show IPA), 1789β1846, U.S. political economist and journalist, born in Germany.
- greenboard β a green chalkboard or blackboard.
- lineup β a particular order or disposition of persons or things as arranged or drawn up for action, inspection, etc.
- docket β Also called trial docket. a list of cases in court for trial, or the names of the parties who have cases pending.
- cartulary β a collection of charters or records, esp relating to the title to an estate or monastery
- listings β Plural form of listing.
- checklist β A checklist is a list of all the things that you need to do, information that you want to find out, or things that you need to take somewhere, which you make in order to ensure that you do not forget anything.
- gable β (William) Clark, 1901β60, U.S. film actor.
- blackboard β A blackboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Blackboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
verb slate
- lay on β to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- flay β to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
- inventorize β (transitive, nonstandard) To make an inventory of.
- nominate β to propose (someone) for appointment or election to an office.
- line up β a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- carded β a machine for combing and paralleling fibers of cotton, flax, wool, etc., prior to spinning to remove short, undesirable fibers and produce a sliver.
- criticise β criticize
- enroll β Officially register as a member of an institution or a student on a course.
- map out β a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- criticize β If you criticize someone or something, you express your disapproval of them by saying what you think is wrong with them.
- lambaste β to beat or whip severely.
- lash β an ocean-going vessel equipped with special cranes and holds for lifting and stowing cargo-carrying barges that can be sailed up inland waterways or into port facilities from offshore.
- censure β If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.
- maul β a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- carding β the process of preparing the fibres of cotton, wool, etc, for spinning
adj slate
- melanoid β of or characterized by melanosis.
- asher β the son of Jacob and ancestor of one of the 12 tribes of Israel
- charcoal β Charcoal is a black substance obtained by burning wood without much air. It can be burned as a fuel, and small sticks of it are used for drawing with.
- granite β ice (def 4).
- black β lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- coaler β a ship, train, etc, used to carry or supply coal
- ebon β ebony (def 6).
- heather β a female given name.
- gray β of a color between white and black; having a neutral hue.
- grey β any achromatic color; any color with zero chroma, intermediate between white and black.
adjective slate
- onyx β Mineralogy. a variety of chalcedony having straight parallel bands of alternating colors. Compare Mexican onyx.
- inklike β Resembling ink.
- obsidian β a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.
- atramentous β similar to or as black as ink
- cinereal β relating to the grey matter of the brain and nervous system