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Chalk

Chalk Meaning & Definition
Chalk Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Chalk?

[n] a piece of chalk (or similar substance) used for writing on blackboards or other surfaces
[n] a pure flat white with little reflectance
[n] a soft whitish calcite
[v] write, draw, or trace with chalk

Synonyms | Synonyms for Chalk:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Chalk: air brush | alabaster | art paper | ballpoint pen | besnow | blackboard | blanch | blaze | blaze a trail | bleach | blemish | blotch | book | brand | brush | calcimine | calendar | camera lucida | camera obscura | canvas | cartoon | carve | catalog | chalk up | charcoal | check | check in | check off | chronicle | cicatrize | color | copy | crayon | crosshatch | cut | dapple | dash | dash off | daub | define | delimit | delineate | demarcate | depict | design | diagram | discolor | docket | doodle | dot | draft | draw | drawing paper | drawing pencil | drier | driven snow | easel | engrave | enroll | enscroll | enter | eraser | etiolate | file | fill out | fixative | fleck | fleece | flour | foam | freckle | frost | gash | grave | grizzle | ground | hatch | impanel | impress | imprint | incise | index | ink | inkhorn | inkstand | inkwell | inscribe | insert | invisible ink | ivory | jot down | lay figure | lead pencil | lily | limn | line | list | log | maggot | make a mark | make a memorandum | make a note | make an entry | make out | mark | mark down | mark off | mark out | matriculate | maulstick | medium | milk | minute | mottle | nib | nick | notch | note | note down | paint | paint a picture | paintbrush | palette | palette knife | paper | pastel | pearl | pen | pencil | pepper | picture | picturize | pigments | pipe-clay | place upon record | plume | point | poll | portray | post | post up | prick | print | punch | punctuate | puncture | put down | put in writing | put on paper | put on tape | quill | record | reduce to writing | reed | register | riddle | scar | scarify | score | scotch | scratch | scratchboard | scumble | seal | seam | set down | shade | sheet | siccative | silver | sketch | sketchbook | sketchpad | slate | snow | spatula | speck | speckle | splotch | spot | spray gun | stain | stamp | stencil | stigmatize | streak | striate | stripe | stump | style | stylograph | stylus | swan | sympathetic ink | table | tablet | tabulate | take down | tape | tape-record | tattoo | tick | tick off | tint | trace | underline | underscore | varnish | videotape | white | whiten | whitewash | write | write down | write in | write out | write up

See Also | calcite | calcium carbonate | chalk | chalk | delineate | describe | draw | drawing chalk | line | outline | tailor's chalk | trace | white | whiteness | writing implement

Chalk In Webster's Dictionary

\Chalk\, n. [AS. cealc lime, from L. calx limestone. See {Calz}, and {Cawk}.] 1. (Min.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone. 2. (Fine Arts) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See {Crayon}. {Black chalk}, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. {By a long chalk}, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] --Lowell. {Chalk drawing} (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See {Crayon}. {Chalk formation}. See {Cretaceous formation}, under {Cretaceous}. {Chalk line}, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on boards or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arranging work. {Chalk mixture}, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. {Chalk period}. (Geol.) See {Cretaceous period}, under {Cretaceous}. {Chalk pit}, a pit in which chalk is dug. {Drawing chalk}. See {Crayon}, n., 1. {French chalk}, steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian mineral. {Red chalk}, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle.
\Chalk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chalked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chalking}.] 1. To rub or mark with chalk. 2. To manure with chalk, as land. --Morimer. 3. To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. --Tennyson. Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. --Herbert. {To chalk out}, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] ``I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out.'' --Burke.

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