I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a slate roof (= covered with thin pieces of a grey rock )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blank
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Start with a blank slate in the new year.
clean
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The bambina hardly knows me, let's give her, too, a start on a clean slate .
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Many academics really do believe that all of us are now beginning once again with a clean slate .
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The new-born child is virtually a clean slate , to be written on by the world.
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Orson Pratt, one of the originals, stressed the clean slate of history on which they wrote.
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Although there is never a clean slate on which to start planning, the new start provides the necessity for such planning.
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He wanted to use the subsidiary as a totally clean slate and he wanted true collaboration from the beginning.
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When things go wrong Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate .
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Standard variable cost is better as any inefficiencies stay in the transferring division and the receiving division starts with a clean slate .
grey
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There was another Bentley outside the grey slate Gothic place with a smart yellow Cortina snuggling up against it.
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The pink brick and grey slate was catching the dying rays of the sun.
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It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front.
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Dark grey Hardrow slates were specified to give the scheme a natural and mature appearance from the outset.
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His eyes were dull like slate , grey like slate.
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A white cottage with a grey slate roof and a black chimney and a bright butter-yellow front door.
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The grey slates and shales of the Silurian rock are obvious as you walk.
■ NOUN
quarry
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It depended for its prosperity on the local slate quarries and when these ran into trouble so did the railway.
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The giant slate quarries and tips of waste rock at Llanberis and Bethesda are great scars on the landscape.
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We then cycled uphill to the town of Rosebush with its deserted slate quarries .
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Many Lake District slate quarries are still working, but of course modern roads and vehicles make the job much less dangerous now.
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Both slate quarries are open daily April to October, 100.00 a.m. -5.30 p.m.
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From directly above them came a noise like an explosion in a slate quarry .
roof
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Dorchester Terrace was a row of tall red houses with sloping slate roofs .
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Ranks of houses stretched away into the distance like waves breaking on a rocky shore, their slate roofs glistening.
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All can be used with tile-covered roofs , or as a contrast, with slate roofs.
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Porous state My slate roof is leaking through general wear.
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It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front.
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At the foot of the bed, a window looked out on dip-backed slate roofs .
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Outside the snow was already melting on the slate roofs of the houses.
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Because the sun shone so brightly the slate roof blazed like a slab of silver.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clean sheet/slate
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A clean sheet of blotting paper should be in the blotter. 5.
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Everton's record of failing to keep a clean sheet in 15 matches soon looked ominously likely to continue.
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He wanted to use the subsidiary as a totally clean slate and he wanted true collaboration from the beginning.
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Hereford just can't keep a clean sheet and their lowly league position reflects that.
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Orson Pratt, one of the originals, stressed the clean slate of history on which they wrote.
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The new-born child is virtually a clean slate, to be written on by the world.
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They are treading unfamiliar ground in the relegation zone and have failed to keep a clean sheet this season.
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When things go wrong Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate.
wipe the slate clean
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It would be nice if we could wipe the slate clean and start over.
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First among these was the introduction of penances which, it was hoped, would wipe the slate clean.
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We must start wiping the slate clean of all such inner accounting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A third candidate, radio talk show host Alan Keyes, filed a partial slate .
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Best Director nominees usually parallel the Best Picture slate with one exception.
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In a spirit of community service, books and slates appeared.
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Many academics really do believe that all of us are now beginning once again with a clean slate .
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The falls of the flowers are a delicate yellowish green veined with slate blue.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clean sheet/slate
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A clean sheet of blotting paper should be in the blotter. 5.
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Everton's record of failing to keep a clean sheet in 15 matches soon looked ominously likely to continue.
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He wanted to use the subsidiary as a totally clean slate and he wanted true collaboration from the beginning.
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Hereford just can't keep a clean sheet and their lowly league position reflects that.
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Orson Pratt, one of the originals, stressed the clean slate of history on which they wrote.
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The new-born child is virtually a clean slate, to be written on by the world.
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They are treading unfamiliar ground in the relegation zone and have failed to keep a clean sheet this season.
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When things go wrong Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Council deliberations on the budget are slated for June 25, 26, 27 and 30.
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Fratney had been slated to be closed and reopened as what was to be called an Exemplary Teaching Center.
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He was slated for his tactics when they went wrong, but how often did that happen?
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Old Navy flagship sites in Chicago and Seattle also are slated to open in 1998.
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The flight is slated for launching between Dec. 2 and Dec. 27 from Cape Canaveral.
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The project is slated for completion in 1999.
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They were slated as Wedding Present imitators and never escaped the suffocating connection with the band.