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

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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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