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slate

The English word “slate” has 30 meanings listed here.

  1. A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers.
  2. 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.
  3. A piece of other material used as a roofing tile.
  4. 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.
  5. A sequentially numbered session of recording a film.
  6. Information about a film recording which is inserted at the start of the recording, or printed on a videotape label etc.
  7. A record, for example, of money owed.
  8. A range of things; also, a schedule.
  9. 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.
  10. A group or list of candidates for appointment or election to an office; also, a group of candidates or electors with affiliated political views.
  11. A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
  12. The bluish-grey colour of most slate (etymology 1 sense 4).
  13. Having the bluish-grey colour of slate (noun etymology 1 sense 4).
  14. To cover (a building, or part of a building such as a floor or roof) with slates (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1).
  15. To write (something) on a writing slate (noun etymology 1 sense 2.1).
  16. To appoint or designate (someone or something); also, to nominate or propose (someone or something); specifically (politics), to nominate or propose (a candidate) for an office.
  17. To expect (something) with a (strong) degree of certainty; to anticipate, to predict.
  18. To plan or schedule (something).
  19. To provide synchronization information about (a scene, take, etc., of a film recording) using a slate (noun etymology 1 sense 2.3.1).
  20. To scrape (an animal hide) with a slater (“blade originally made of slate”) to remove hairs.
  21. To cover a building, or part of a building with slates (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1).
  22. To provide a film recording with synchronization information, especially using a slate (noun etymology 1 sense 2.3.1).
  23. To scold (someone) harshly; to chastise, to excoriate, to lambaste.
  24. To criticize or critique (an author or a work) harshly; to castigate.
  25. To treat (an enemy) harshly.
  26. To beat or thrash (someone) harshly.
  27. To knock the hat of (someone) forward over their eyes as a joke.
  28. To set (one or more dogs) on a person or animal; to sic.
  29. To set one or more dogs on (a person or animal).
  30. A dirty or slovenly person.
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