I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chalk/limestone/granite cliffs
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White chalk cliffs rose up from the sea.
gravel/sand/chalk pit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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This twin thing ... you are separate people, different as chalk and cheese.
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Yet their features were as different as chalk from cheese.
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They are psychologically, spiritually and in personality as different as chalk and cheese.
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These phenomena are as different as chalk from cheese.
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The two men are as different as chalk and cheese.
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I was a bigger rogue then than I am now but Benjamin was as different as chalk from cheese.
long
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A long chalk from resort children.
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We must stop calling this the closest election of modern times, because it wasn't-not by a long chalk .
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A long chalk , also, it would appear from their aunt, Rosette Fournier.
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Mrs Cole isn't one of the worst cases I've seen, by a long chalk .
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All she did know was that she hadn't seen the last of him by a long chalk !
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No, not by a long chalk .
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They are second best-and by a long chalk .
white
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These two specimens are beautifully preserved, extracted from a matrix of white chalk , which gives them their colour.
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So I met this guy called Donahue. White like a chalk .
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Beyond the hedge untidy maize was bordered on two sides by ploughed soil, speckled white with chalk .
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All those carved white horses on chalk hillsides.
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Her face was whiter than the chalk dusting it.
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The starfish is preserved in soft white chalk , which fills in the interior of the animal.
■ NOUN
down
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Next to the thin chalk downs in Wiltshire lies the Vale of Pewsey with its superb deep greensand.
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Arlott loved Hove as he did all those counties of the chalk downs and Weald.
drawing
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Shadows merge into the snow; the woodcut turns into a shadowy chalk drawing .
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He died soon afterwards and Samuel Cooper executed a chalk drawing of the boy on his death-bed.
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An interesting insight into her approach is provided by a chalk drawing on blue hand-made paper dating from 1919.
dust
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He looked down at his fingers and noted the chalk dust on their tips.
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There were the eternal school smells of chalk dust , wax crayons, cedar shavings, damp wool, and warm children.
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Now those slight differences of electrical potential had disappeared, like the chalk dust at the end of the lesson.
pit
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The chalk pit itself is potentially a valuable habitat and adds yet one more facet to this lovely stretch of land.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A long chalk from resort children.
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A taste for dirt or chalk .
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Bats flittered about him; their warning squeaks sounded like chalk on a blackboard.
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He could smell the harsh carbolic soap of the orphanage, then the schoolroom with its dust and chalk .
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It makes a fertile soil for crops since here it is a mixture of clay and small particles of chalk .
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She had no money for even a blackboard and chalk , or for the slates used commonly by village children.
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The headmaster handed me the chalk .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the time I was involved the business had chalked up losses for many years and was in deep trouble.
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Ford management chalked up its most significant coup over working practices in 1985 when 500 job titles were reduced to 58.
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Less ambitiously, simple networks can be chalked on to the playground.
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Now, abruptly, she could see that he imagined he'd chalked up yet another small victory.
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Red has played a good half, sinking five of six field goals, grabbing four rebounds and chalking up three assists.
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Since then, Maxwell has chalked up three arrests in Houston.