Definitions for slate
sleɪtslate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. slatenoun

   (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate

2. slate, slatingnoun

   thin layers of rock used for roofing

3. slatenoun

   a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers

4. slate, ticketverb

   a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices

5. slateverb

   designate or schedule

   "He slated his talk for 9 AM"; "She was slated to be his successor"

6. slateverb

   enter on a list or slate for an election

   "He was slated for borough president"

7. slateverb

   cover with slate

   "slate the roof"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slatenoun

   A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.

2. slatenoun

   A sheet of slate for writing on with chalk.

3. slatenoun

   A tile made of slate.

4. slatenoun

   A record of money owed.

   Put it on my slate I'll pay you next week.

5. slatenoun

   A list of affiliated candidates for an election.

   Roy Disney led the alternative slate of directors for the stockholder vote.

6. slateverb

   To cover with slate.

   The old church ledgers show that the roof was slated in 1775.

7. slateverb

   To criticise harshly.

   The play was slated by the critics.

8. slateverb

   To schedule.

   The election was slated for November 2nd.

9. slateverb

   To destine or strongly expect.

   The next version of our software is slated to be the best release ever.

10. slateverb

    To punish severely.

    The boy was slated by his own mom for disobeying her.

11. slateadjective

    Having the bluish-grey/gray colour/color of slate.

12. Etymology: From esclate (French éclat).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SLATEnoun

   A grey fossile stone, easily broken into thin plates, which are used to cover houses, or to write upon.

   Etymology: from slit: slate is in some counties a crack; or from esclate, a tile, French.

   A square cannot be so truly drawn upon a slate as it is conceived in the mind. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol.

   A small piece of a flat slate the ants laid over the hole of their nest, when they foresaw it would rain. Joseph Addison, Spect.

2. To Slateverb

   To cover the roof; to tile.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Sonnets and elegies to Chloris,
   Would raise a house about two stories,
   A lyrick ode would slate. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SLATE

   SLATE, a pioneer organization of the New Left and precursor of the Free Speech Movement and formative counterculture era, was a campus political party at the University of California, Berkeley from 1958 to 1966.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slate

   Slate is a fine-grained homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade metamorphism. It is often used in construction and manufacturing, most commonly as roof tiles or chalkboards, due to its ability to be split into thin, durable and waterproof layers. Its color usually varies from grey to black, but it can also be found in green, red, or purple.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slateverb

   an argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist

2. Slateverb

   any rock or stone having a slaty structure

3. Slateverb

   a prepared piece of such stone

4. Slateverb

   a thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc

5. Slateverb

   a tablet for writing upon

6. Slateverb

   an artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes

7. Slateverb

   a thin plate of any material; a flake

8. Slateverb

   a list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand

9. Slateverb

   to cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe

10. Slateverb

    to register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment

11. Slateverb

    to set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3

12. Etymology: [OE. slat, sclat, OF. esclat a shiver, splinter, F. clat, fr. OF. esclater to shiver, to chip, F. clater, fr. OHG. sleizen to tear, slit, split, fr. slzan to slit, G. schleissen. See Slit, v. t., and cf. Eclat.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slate

   Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. Foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering, but instead is in planes perpendicular to the direction of metamorphic compression. The very strong foliation is called "slaty cleavage". It is caused by strong compression causing fine grained clay flakes to regrow in planes perpendicular to the compression. When expertly "cut" by striking parallel to the foliation, with a specialized tool in the quarry, many slates will form smooth flat sheets of stone which have long been used for roofing and floor tiles and other purposes. Slate is frequently grey in color, especially when seen, en masse, covering roofs. However, slate occurs in a variety of colors even from a single locality; for example, slate from North Wales can be found in many shades of grey, from pale to dark, and may also be purple, green or cyan. Slate is not to be confused with shale, from which it may be formed, or schist. Ninety percent of Europe's natural slate used for roofing originates from Spain.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Slate

   slāt, n. a highly metamorphosed argillaceous rock, fine-grained and fissile, and of a dull blue, gray, purple, or green colour—used in thin slabs of small size for ordinary roofs, and in larger slabs for dairy-fittings, wash-tubs, cisterns, tables, &c., and when polished for writing-slates and 'black-boards:' a piece of slate for roofing, or for writing upon: a preliminary list of candidates before a caucus.—adj. bluish-gray, slate-coloured.—v.t. to cover with slate: to enter on a slate.—ns. Slate′-axe, a slater's tool, a sax; Slate′-clay, a fissile shale.—adjs. Slā′ted, covered with slates; Slate′-gray, of a light slate colour.—ns. Slate′-pen′cil, a cut or turned stick of soft slate, or of compressed moistened slate-powder, for writing on slate; Slā′ter; Slā′tiness, the quality of being slaty; Slā′ting, the act of covering with slates: a covering of slates: materials for slating.—adj. Slā′ty, resembling slate: having the nature or properties of slate. [O. Fr. esclat—Old High Ger. slīzan, Ger. schleissen, to split.]

2. Slate

   slāt, v.t. to abuse, criticise severely: (prov.) to set a dog at.—n. Slā′ting, a severe criticism. [A.S. slítan, to slit.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slate

   A type of material.

   Slate is found in many countries throughout the world and is used for a variety of purposes including state roof tiles, slate floor tiles, wall cladding etc.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 6, 2016  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SLATE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Slate is ranked #5796 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Slate surname appeared 5,969 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Slate.
   
   87.8% or 5,245 total occurrences were White.
   5.1% or 310 total occurrences were Black.
   2.8% or 168 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.3% or 140 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.1% or 69 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.6% or 37 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Designate
   • Register
   • Roof
   • Sedimentary Rock
   • Tablet

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'slate' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3966

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Anagrams for slate »

1. astel

2. lates

3. least

4. leats

5. salet

6. setal

7. stale

8. steal

9. stela

10. taels

11. tales

12. teals

13. tesla

How to pronounce slate?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say slate in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of slate in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of slate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of slate in a Sentence

1. David Cross:

   The video reveals that Cathy Latham had a more significant role with the SullivanStrickler team's work in Coffee County than Cathy Latham claimed, we can see Cathy Latham escort the team into the office that morning, for example. And she's an important connection to the effort to create a slate of Georgia electors who would have wrongly voted for Trump for the 2020 election, which now looks to be the subject of a grand jury investigation in Fulton County.

2. Jason Hopkins:

   The Vera Institute of Justice is a behemoth progressive nonprofit based out of New York City with well over a $140 million budget, which they use to fund a slate of progressive causes and initiatives across the country, whether that be criminal justice reform, bail reform and also immigration.

3. Mickey Mehta:

   Memories are good, bad and ugly & they occupy all the space in your mind, leaving very little for present moment awareness. Life flows towards you constantly and total memory occupation makes you miss the present moment celebration. Clean the slate & reboot your mind, don't memorize, be available to life every single moment and MickeyMize.

4. Diane Yentel:

   Over 2.5 million households have been helped by emergency rental assistance, with back rent paid, these families have a clean slate and some housing stability to help get through the next wave of the pandemic. But many struggling renters have yet to receive assistance, through no fault of their own, and remain at risk of losing their home this winter.

5. Jennifer Pomeranz:

   Online retailers have the ability to track our purchases and what we search for online, so it's important for people to know that they're not shopping on a blank slate, with that knowledge, it's worth looking around for retailers who do provide the information.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=slate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Slate
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=slate
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slate
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=slate
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=slate
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=slate