noun. A fine-grained metamorphic rock that splits into thin, smooth-surfaced layers.

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noun. A piece of this rock cut for use as roofing or surfacing material or as a writing surface.

noun. A writing tablet made of a similar material.

noun. A record of past performance or activity.

noun. A list of the candidates of a political party running for various offices.

noun. A dark or bluish gray to dark bluish or dark purplish gray.

adjective. Made of a fine-grained metamorphic rock.

adjective. Of the color slate.

transitive verb. To cover (a roof, for example) with slate.

transitive verb. To put on a list of candidates.

transitive verb. To schedule or designate.

To bait; set a dog loose at.

To haul over the coals; take to task harshly or rudely; berate; abuse; scold; hold up to ridicule; criticize severely: as, the work was slated in the reviews.

To cover with slate or plates of stone: as, to slate a roof.

To enter as on a slate; suggest or propose as a candidate by entering the name on the slate or ticket: as, A. B. is already slated for the mayoralty. See I., 4.

In tanning, to cleanse from hairs, etc., with a slater. See slater, 3.

noun. A thin, flat stone or piece of stone; a thin plate or flake. See slat, 1.

noun. Especially A piece or plate of the stone hence called slate. (See def. 3.)

noun. A rock the most striking characteristic of which is its fissile structure, or capability of being easily split or cleft into thin plates of nearly uniform thickness and smooth surfaces.

noun. A preliminary list of candidates prepared by party managers for acceptance by a nominating caucus or convention: so called as being written down, as it were on a slate, and altered or erased like a school-boy's writing.

noun. (which see, under chalk).

Of the color of slate; slate-colored; of a dark, slightly bluish-gray color of medium luminosity.

transitive verb. To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d slat, 3.

transitive verb. To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate

transitive verb. To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.

noun. An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.

noun. Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.

noun. A prepared piece of such stone.

noun. A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.

noun. A tablet for writing upon.

noun. An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.

noun. A thin plate of any material; a flake.

noun. A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.

noun. a kind of slate of a greenish gray color, which absorbs water rapidly, and adheres to the tongue; whence the name.

noun. a kind of slate containing sulphate of alumina, -- used in the manufacture of alum.

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noun. a soft species of sectile clay slate, impregnated with bitumen.

noun. a slaty rock, consisting essentially of hornblende and feldspar, useful for flagging on account of its toughness.

noun. a mattock with an ax end, used in shaping slates for roofs, and making holes in them for the nails.

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noun. an indurated clay, forming one of the alternating beds of the coal measures, consisting of an infusible compound of alumina and silica, and often used for making fire bricks.

noun. a globe the surface of which is made of an artificial slatelike material.

noun. a pencil of slate, or of soapstone, used for writing on a slate.

noun. rocks which split into thin laminæ, not necessarily parallel to the stratification; foliated rocks.

noun. a variety of calcite of silvery white luster and of a slaty structure.

noun. a plate of translucent material, as ground glass, upon which a copy of a picture, placed beneath it, can be made by tracing.

noun. A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.

noun. The bluish-grey colour of most slate.

noun. A sheet of slate for writing on with chalk.

"It's one of the few times we've heard the term slate used since Ballmer briefly showed off"

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