SLATE


Meaning of SLATE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a slate roof (= covered with thin pieces of a grey rock )

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

blank

Start with a blank slate in the new year.

clean

The bambina hardly knows me, let's give her, too, a start on a clean slate .

Many academics really do believe that all of us are now beginning once again with a clean slate .

The new-born child is virtually a clean slate , to be written on by the world.

Orson Pratt, one of the originals, stressed the clean slate of history on which they wrote.

Although there is never a clean slate on which to start planning, the new start provides the necessity for such planning.

He wanted to use the subsidiary as a totally clean slate and he wanted true collaboration from the beginning.

When things go wrong Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate .

Standard variable cost is better as any inefficiencies stay in the transferring division and the receiving division starts with a clean slate .

grey

There was another Bentley outside the grey slate Gothic place with a smart yellow Cortina snuggling up against it.

The pink brick and grey slate was catching the dying rays of the sun.

It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front.

Dark grey Hardrow slates were specified to give the scheme a natural and mature appearance from the outset.

His eyes were dull like slate , grey like slate.

A white cottage with a grey slate roof and a black chimney and a bright butter-yellow front door.

The grey slates and shales of the Silurian rock are obvious as you walk.

■ NOUN

quarry

It depended for its prosperity on the local slate quarries and when these ran into trouble so did the railway.

The giant slate quarries and tips of waste rock at Llanberis and Bethesda are great scars on the landscape.

We then cycled uphill to the town of Rosebush with its deserted slate quarries .

Many Lake District slate quarries are still working, but of course modern roads and vehicles make the job much less dangerous now.

Both slate quarries are open daily April to October, 100.00 a.m. -5.30 p.m.

From directly above them came a noise like an explosion in a slate quarry .

roof

Dorchester Terrace was a row of tall red houses with sloping slate roofs .

Ranks of houses stretched away into the distance like waves breaking on a rocky shore, their slate roofs glistening.

All can be used with tile-covered roofs , or as a contrast, with slate roofs.

Porous state My slate roof is leaking through general wear.

It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front.

At the foot of the bed, a window looked out on dip-backed slate roofs .

Outside the snow was already melting on the slate roofs of the houses.

Because the sun shone so brightly the slate roof blazed like a slab of silver.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

clean sheet/slate

A clean sheet of blotting paper should be in the blotter. 5.

Everton's record of failing to keep a clean sheet in 15 matches soon looked ominously likely to continue.

He wanted to use the subsidiary as a totally clean slate and he wanted true collaboration from the beginning.

Hereford just can't keep a clean sheet and their lowly league position reflects that.

Orson Pratt, one of the originals, stressed the clean slate of history on which they wrote.

The new-born child is virtually a clean slate, to be written on by the world.

They are treading unfamiliar ground in the relegation zone and have failed to keep a clean sheet this season.

When things go wrong Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate.

wipe the slate clean

It would be nice if we could wipe the slate clean and start over.

First among these was the introduction of penances which, it was hoped, would wipe the slate clean.

We must start wiping the slate clean of all such inner accounting.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A third candidate, radio talk show host Alan Keyes, filed a partial slate .

Best Director nominees usually parallel the Best Picture slate with one exception.

In a spirit of community service, books and slates appeared.

Many academics really do believe that all of us are now beginning once again with a clean slate .

The falls of the flowers are a delicate yellowish green veined with slate blue.

II. verb

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

clean sheet/slate

A clean sheet of blotting paper should be in the blotter. 5.

Everton's record of failing to keep a clean sheet in 15 matches soon looked ominously likely to continue.

He wanted to use the subsidiary as a totally clean slate and he wanted true collaboration from the beginning.

Hereford just can't keep a clean sheet and their lowly league position reflects that.

Orson Pratt, one of the originals, stressed the clean slate of history on which they wrote.

The new-born child is virtually a clean slate, to be written on by the world.

They are treading unfamiliar ground in the relegation zone and have failed to keep a clean sheet this season.

When things go wrong Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Council deliberations on the budget are slated for June 25, 26, 27 and 30.

Fratney had been slated to be closed and reopened as what was to be called an Exemplary Teaching Center.

He was slated for his tactics when they went wrong, but how often did that happen?

Old Navy flagship sites in Chicago and Seattle also are slated to open in 1998.

The flight is slated for launching between Dec. 2 and Dec. 27 from Cape Canaveral.

The project is slated for completion in 1999.

They were slated as Wedding Present imitators and never escaped the suffocating connection with the band.

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