Slate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to roof with slate
• cover (something, especially a roof) with slates
• criticize severely
• schedule; plan
• nominate (someone) as a candidate for an office or post
• identify (a take in a film) using a slate
• An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.
• Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
• A prepared piece of such stone.
• A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.
• A tablet for writing upon.
• An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.
• A thin plate of any material; a flake.
• A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.
• To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
• To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.
• To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.
• designate or schedule
• enter on a list or slate for an election
• cover with slates
NOUN:
• a fine-grained argillaceous rock, also SCLATE, SKLATE
• a fine-grained grey, green, or bluish-purple metamorphic rock easily split into smooth, flat plates
• a flat plate of slate used as roofing material
• a flat plate of slate formerly used for writing on in schools
• a small portable computer that accepts input directly on to its screen rather than via a keyboard or mouse; a tablet computer
• a bluish-grey colour
• a list of candidates for election to a post or office, typically a group sharing a set of political views
• a range of something on offer
• a board showing the identifying details of a take in a film, held in front of the camera at the beginning and end of the take
• rock which splits easily into thin layers
• (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate
• thin layers of rock used for roofing
• a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers
• a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices
• a record of a person's debit or credit (in pubs and shops formerly written on a slate)
ADJECTIVE:
• dark grey
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cover with slate (a roofing material)

Words related to SLATE

sklate10 slated7 slatelike13 slates6 slating8

Words that contain SLATE

slated7 slater6 slates6 slatey9 reslate7 slaters7 reslated9 reslates8 legislate10 slatelike13 translate9 legislated12 legislates11 translated11 translates10 retranslate11 mistranslate14 retranslated13 retranslates12 untranslated13 mistranslated16 mistranslates15

How to use SLATE in a sentence

• It was an arrow and it was marked with a piece of slate.
• This latter formation extends as far as Mount Hopeless, where the slate ranges of South Australia rise abruptly from the plain.
• The slate was placed below the edge of the table beside Dr.
• The slate was not otherwise withdrawn from under the table above two inches until its final withdrawal, and the question was always, seemingly, on the under side.
• Every day he left his books and slate on the bank while he bathed and no one ever touched them.
• A gleam of yellow light lingered in the western sky between two dark hills, but the clouds above and the river below were of the colour of slate.
• When Monsieur and Madame Sechard had bought La Verberie, a fine house built of stone, and roofed with slate, the pleasure-grounds consisted of a garden of two acres.
• Along the river was but little timber, but much hard slate in the bluffs.
• The vein was a contact between slate and granite, and was very regular in size, and apparently in quality.
• The soft darkness of purple slate was on the hills.
• They had all been painted of a light gray or slate color, with red roofs.
• When the boys first came in, there was a little girl standing by the counter with a small slate in her hand.
• The sponge of the slate had wiped off their little marks.
• The material is a compact, blue-gray, banded slate.
• With what pride did I enter my sales on a slate kept for the purpose under the cash drawer.
• We were surprised to find this point also composed of the same kind of grey slate.
• Delmonico and Saynt Augustine wiped frawgs off the slate of fashion.
• I would spell the words and write them on the slate.
• The slate disappeared a few years since, and the custom is no longer observed.
• To a limited extent the system has been used in slate.
• One mile before Hizarnow, a curious hill of slate occurred, covered with boulders.
• A part of the top of this table is of slate, and may be kept hot by steam or hot water from the range.
• It stood open, and beyond it the eye travelled down a vista of cool slate flags and polished cream-pans.
• Then he talked of his money, which, he said, was considerable, and was mostly invested in some slate quarries in the vicinity of Carnarvon.
• The present Chief is a keen commercial man and understands the advantage of being on good terms with the Slate for he has a large rubber plantation and also works metals.

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