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chalk

[ chawk ]

noun

  1. a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
  2. a prepared piece of chalk or chalklike substance for marking, as for writing on a blackboard.
  3. a mark made with chalk.
  4. a score or tally.
  5. Sports Slang. the competitor considered most likely to win by the oddsmakers; favorite:

    If you don’t know anything about either team, just bet the chalk.



verb (used with object)

  1. to mark or write with chalk.
  2. to rub over or whiten with chalk.
  3. to treat or mix with chalk:

    to chalk a billiard cue.

  4. to make pale; blanch:

    Terror chalked her face.

verb (used without object)

  1. (of paint) to powder from weathering.

adjective

  1. of, made of, or drawn with chalk.

verb phrase

    1. to score or earn:

      They chalked up two runs in the first inning.

    2. to charge or ascribe to:

      It was a poor performance, but may be chalked up to lack of practice.

chalk

/ ³Ùʃɔ˰ì /

noun

  1. a soft fine-grained white sedimentary rock consisting of nearly pure calcium carbonate, containing minute fossil fragments of marine organisms, usually without a cementing material
  2. a piece of chalk or a substance like chalk, often coloured, used for writing and drawing on a blackboard
  3. a line, mark, etc made with chalk
  4. billiards snooker a small cube of prepared chalk or similar substance for rubbing the tip of a cue
  5. a score, tally, or record
  6. as alike as chalk and cheese or as different as chalk and cheese informal.
    totally different in essentials
  7. by a long chalk informal.
    by far
  8. can't tell chalk from cheese or doesn't know chalk from cheese
    to be unable to judge or appreciate important differences
  9. not by a long chalk informal.
    by no means; not possibly
  10. modifier made of chalk
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to draw or mark (something) with chalk
  2. tr to mark, rub, or whiten with or as if with chalk
  3. intr (of paint) to become chalky; powder
  4. tr to spread chalk on (land) as a fertilizer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

chalk

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  1. A soft, white, gray, or yellow limestone consisting mainly of calcium carbonate and formed primarily from the accumulation of fossil microorganisms such as foraminifera and calcareous algae. Chalk is used in making lime, cement, and fertilizers, and as a whitening pigment in ceramics, paints, and cosmetics. The chalk used in classrooms is usually artificial.
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³¦³ó²¹±ô°ì²â, adjective
  • ˈ³¦³ó²¹±ô°ìËŒ±ô¾±°ì±ð, adjective
  • ˈ³¦³ó²¹±ô°ì¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦³ó²¹±ô°ì·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
  • ³Ü²Ô·³¦³ó²¹±ô°ì±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of chalk1

First recorded before 900; Middle English chalk, schalk, calk, Old English cealc “plaster, cementâ€; cognate with Old Saxon calc, Dutch kalk, German Kalch, Kalk, from Latin calc- (stem of calx ) “lime, limestone, quicklime,†from Greek ³¦³óá±ô¾±³æ “small stone, rubble, gravel, mortarâ€
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of chalk1

Old English cealc, from Latin calx limestone, from Greek khalix pebble
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B-Real chalks it up to the “prestige and history†of the venue and respecting its rules.

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This rare chalk stream – one of around 200 worldwide – which supports important wildlife like water voles, saw more than 3,300 hours of spills in 2024.

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In the 2021 fall, tonnes of chalk fell on to the beach below the cliffs, cutting off an access path to the former lighthouse.

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Meanwhile, over in Reading people decorated a street with banners, drawings and chalked messages on pavements to celebrate the fourth birthday of their neighbour Felix in May 2020.

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The replays showed the maul which drove the Scotland skipper had been illegally set up, and despite Malcolm's protest, her effort was chalked off.

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