Synonyms for slate

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sleyt

Phonetic Transcription : sleɪt

Définition of slate

Origin : mid-14c., from Old French esclate, fem. of esclat "split piece, splinter" (Modern French éclat; see slat), so called because the rock splits easily into thin plates. As an adjective, 1510s. As a color, first recorded 1813. Sense of "a writing tablet" (made of slate), first recorded late 14c., led to that of "list of preliminary candidates prepared by party managers," first recorded 1842, from notion of being easily altered or erased. Clean slate (1856) is an image from customer accounts chalked up in a tavern.

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Example sentences :

Throwing my slate on deck in a high passion, I left the ship and went ashore.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

Tip was back by the kitchen window now, with his slate and book.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

They stood at the desk, teacher and scholar, Howard bending over his slate.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

The Ma was at least half the size of the slate, while Heman was microscopic; but, alas!
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

It is just as impossible to generalize granite and slate, as it is to generalize a man and a cow.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

There is no such thing as wiping off the slate and starting with a “new” set of ideas.
Extract from : « Blood and Iron » by John Hubert Greusel

I knew the Methodist folks had a Sunday school picnic on the slate for Tuesday.
Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln

For a slate or blackboard, he used the beach, as did Archimedes of the olden time.
Extract from : « Adrift on the Pacific » by Edward S. Ellis

How she ever kept the accounts so straight as she did, in her head and on her slate, was a perfect wonder.
Extract from : « Tom Brown at Rugby » by Thomas Hughes

My wife returned into the room with the slate, and the door was closed, but not completely.
Extract from : « Telepathy » by W. W. Baggally

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