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"CHALKS" is a plural of: chalk. |
Date "CHALKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Chalks I beat him by long chalks. Thoroughly. In allusion to the ancient custom of making merit marks with chalk, before lead pencils were so common. Walk your chalks. Get you gone. Lodgings wanted for the royal retinue used to be taken arbitrarily by the marshal and sergeant-chamberlain, the inhabitants were sent to the right about, and the houses selected were notified by a chalk mark. When Mary de Medicis, in 1638, came to England, Sieur de Labat was employed to mark "all sorts of houses commodious for her retinue in Colchester." The same custom is referred to in the Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace, in Edinburgh. The phrase is "Walk, you're chalked," corrupted into Walk your chalks. In Scotland, at one time, the landlord gave the tenant notice to quit by chalking the door. "The prisoner has cut his stick, and walked his chalk, and is off to London."- C. Kingsley. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Avoidance | Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject. |
Departure | Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CHALKS |
| English words defined with "CHALKS": drawing chalk ♦ pavement artist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CHALKS": car chalker ♦ hide-measuring-machine operator ♦ Long Chalk ♦ MEASURING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Walk Chalks. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Merrill Lynch account executive chalks up current stock prices on quotation board in firm's new mobile office. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | In the vestry a plump freshfaced jesuit and an elderly man, in shabby blue clothes, were dabbling in a case of paints and chalks. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Bahamas | The resort has also entered into an agreement with Chalks Airlines (seaplanes) to fly passengers from Ft. Lauderdale directly to the resort. (references) |
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| "CHALKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CHALKS" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CHALKS": phosphated chalks ♦ phosphatic chalks ♦ To walk one's chalks. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "CHALKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | Kreiden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | gessi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alkschay tizas. (various references) kritar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CHALKS": bechalks. (additional references) | |
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"CHALKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chakas, Chalak, chalc, chalce, chaliss, Chalst, Chapka, chaulk, chawls, chelms, Chiklis, chilkd, chol-su, chualk, Khalkh, Khals. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CHALKS" (pronounced khô"ks) |
| 3 | -ô" k s | balks, faux, flummox, hawks, squawks, stalks, talks, walks. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-k-l-s" | |
-1 letter: calks, chalk, clash, hacks, lacks, lakhs, shack, slack. | |
-2 letters: calk, cash, cask, hack, lack, lacs, lakh, lash, sack. | |
-3 letters: als, ash, ask, has, kas, lac, las, sac, sal, sha, ska. | |
-4 letters: ah, al, as, ha, ka, la, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-k-l-s" | |
+1 letter: hackles, klatsch, shackle. | |
+2 letters: backlash, bechalks, blackish, hacklers, klatches, shackled, shackler, shackles, shellack. | |
+3 letters: backhauls, backslash, blackfish, chalkiest, charlocks, flashback, hackliest, hairlocks, halfbacks, havelocks, headlocks, holdbacks, klatsches, latchkeys, mahlstick, sackcloth, shacklers, shackling, shashlick, shellacks, shellback, shockable, shoeblack, solonchak, unshackle. | |
+4 letters: alkahestic, backcloths, backlashed, backlasher, backlashes, backlights, backsplash, blackheads, blacksmith, blockheads, flashbacks, jacklights, kalanchoes, mahlsticks, matchlocks, ramshackle, sackcloths, shashlicks, shellacked, shellbacks, shoeblacks, solonchaks, unshackled, unshackles, whalebacks. | |
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