Slate

Definition: Slate

Slate

Noun

1. (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate.

2. Thin layers of rock used for roofing.

3. A fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers.

4. A list of candidates to be considered for nomination or election to public offices.

Verb

1. Choose someone for a job or function.

2. Enter on a list or slate for an election; "He was slated for borough president".

3. Cover with slate; "slate the roof".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references)

Industry

Literature

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SLATE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Slate

Government

Ticket, slate.

Insanity

Screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story.

Plan

Forecast, program(me), prospectus; carte du pays; card; bill, protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare; (food); base of operations; platform, plank, slate, ticket.

Writing

Stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter.

Crosswords: Slate

We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

Hey, Slate. When you get to hell, mention my name, and they'll give ya a discount (Dead to Rights; writing credit: Flint Dille; Andre Emerson)

I'm liable to break another slate over your head (Anne of Green Gables; writing credit: Lucy Maud Montgomery; Kevin Sullivan)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Worked Slate and Articles of Slate or Agglomerated Slate: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

• Asano Slate Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Blank Slate (reference)

• Caring For Your Slate Floor (reference)

• The Slate Diaries (reference)

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Periodicals

• Green Slate (reference)

• Indie Slate (reference)

• Slate (reference)

• Slate And Style - Large Print (reference)

• Slate Newsletter (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Clean Slate (reference)

• Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) (reference)

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Music

• Clean Slate (reference)

• Erase the Slate (reference)

• The Slate [EP] (reference)

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High Tech

• MCS INDUSTRIES 42953 4x6 FASHION STRIPE WOOD PICTURE FRAME - SLATE BLUE FINISH (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Mango 20-by-20-Inch Paintbrush Slate Napkin, Set of 4 (reference)

• Dansk Origami Slate Place Setting (4-pc.) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Vertical slate on 700 Acre Island. Erosion of this material provides sediment for Philbrook Cove Beach. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Pebble Beach on 700 Acre Island. This beach has been formed from glacial material while the Philbrook Cove Beach, right around the corner, was formed from erosion of slate. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The broken slate. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Houdinis and Oscar S. Teale expose a slate writing fraud used by spirit mediums. Credit: Library of Congress.

General view from top of coal mine tressle, showing burning slag heaps and holes of slate, Maidsville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coal miners' homes by slate and slag heap, Caples, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Negro woman picking up coal from old slate heaps in mining community. The "Patch," Cassville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

A slate quarry near Castleton, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress.

Child of miner carrying home coal she picked out of old slate pile down the hill. Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mel Roy on the stage mid-nite, spook party talking skulls, spirit slate writing, spirit table raising, ghosts from the dead. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

It was all thick slabs of slate and water trickled all day out of tiny pinholes and there was a queer smell of stale water there

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The majority of Canadian imports from Italy consisted of ceramic, granite, slate, marble and other natural stone tiles, which in 1999 represented 13 percent of total flooring products imports. (references)

This analysis examines the Canadian market for flooring products, which is made up of wood and cork flooring; ceramics; marble, granite, slate, terrazzo tiles and other natural stone tiles; carpeting; and plastic and linoleum floor coverings. (references)

Economic History

Malawi

Dr. Bakili Muluzi was re-elected to serve a second 5-year term as President, despite an MCP-AFORD Alliance that ran a joint slate against the UDF. (references)

The Netherlands

This system means that members represent the whole country--rather than individual districts as in the United States--and are normally elected on a party slate, not on a personal basis. (references)

Guyana

The president is not directly elected; each party presenting a slate of candidates for the assembly must designate in advance a leader who will become president if that party receives the largest number of votes. (references)

Political Economy

Netherlands

This means that the members represent the entire country rather than individual districts, as is the case in the U.S. Members are normally elected on a party slate, not on a personal basis. (references)

Bolivia

A two-chamber Congress includes a 27-member senate (chosen by party slate; three per department) and a 130-member Chamber of Deputies (half-elected directly, and half from party slates; apportioned roughly by population). (references)

Laos

THE 99-MEMBER NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (NA) IS ELECTED BY SECRET BALLOT UNDER UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE FROM A SLATE OF CANDIDATES APPROVED BY THE LPRP. IN THE MOST RECENT ELECTIONS, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN DECEMBER 1997, ALL BUT ONE OF THE CANDIDATES ELECTED WAS A MEMBER OF THE LPRP. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS THE PRESIDENT ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE NA STANDING COMMITTEE. (references)

Political Rights

Guyana

Voters elect the other 40 from a national slate of nominees chosen by the parties from different sectors of society. (references)

Kazakhstan

The RNPK withdrew its party-list slate after two of its candidates, Akezhan Kazhegeldin and Madel Ismailov, were declared ineligible (they were the only 2 candidates rejected of more than 600 applicants for Majilis contests). (references)

Costa Rica

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal is attempting to increase women's representation in the government, requiring that a minimum of 40 percent of candidates for elective office be female and that women's names be placed accordingly on the ballots by party slate. (references)

Worker Rights

Cameroon

A CCTU Congress held in 1999, which was attended by international observers and held under the auspices of the ILO, elected the reform faction slate of candidates to the CCTU leadership positions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "slate": a clean slate ♦ Adhesive slate ♦ Alum slate ♦ Aluminous slate ♦ bituminous slate ♦ Bond of a slate ♦ Chlorite slate ♦ clay slate ♦ clean slate ♦ clean the slate ♦ Drawing slate ♦ flinty slate ♦ have a clean slate ♦ Hone slate ♦ Horn slate ♦ Hornblende slate ♦ lap of a slate ♦ Log slate ♦ mica slate ♦ of a slate ♦ polishing slate ♦ put on the slate ♦ school slate ♦ slate ax ♦ slate axe ♦ slate board ♦ slate clay ♦ slate club ♦ slate globe ♦ Slate Hill ♦ slate pencil ♦ slate rocks ♦ slate roof ♦ slate spar ♦ Slate Spring ♦ talc slate ♦ Transparent slate ♦ whet slate ♦ whetstone slate. Additional references.

Beginning with "slate": slate-bed, slate-blue, slate-built, slate-club, Slate-color, slate-colored junco, slate-coloured, slate-eyed, slate-fixing, slate-floored, slate-gray, slate-green, slate-grey, slate-paved, slate-pits, slate-quarries, slate-quarry, slate-roof, slate-roofed, slate-tiled.

Ending with "slate": memory-slate, sub-slate.

Albanian

propozoj (hold forth, move, nominate, offer, propose, suggest, tender), mbuloj me plloça, gur rrasash, asgjësoj (annihilate, decimate, destroy, devour, disannul, eliminate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fast, finish, finish off, frustrate, liquidate, overturn, rub out, scathe, shake down, smite, stultify, trample down, unbuild, undo, unmake, uproot), ardëz. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لوح صخري, ‏قائمة مؤقتة للمرشحين, ‏وبخ (berate, blame, carpet, castigate, check, chide, dish up, dress down, jaw, lash, moralize, quarrel, rail, raspberry, rebuff, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, scotch, show up, slag, snub, strafe, take to task, take up, task, tell off, tick off, tickle, upbraid), ‏حقق (achieve, attain, check, consummate, effectuate, fulfil, fulfill, get on, implement, inquire, obtain, prize, probe, produce, quest, realize, search closely, see, take, work out), ‏تنبأ (bode, divine, forebode, foresee, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy), ‏سجل أعمال, ‏عين موعدا ل, ‏الأردواز صخر سهل قطعه, ‏إنتقد (carp, criticize, fault, find fault, lace, maul, nibble, peck, quarrel, slash, snipe, stricture, taking apart, upbraid), ‏إقترح (approach, hold out, offer, propose, proposition, put, submit, suggest, vote), ‏إختار (choose, cull, discriminate, elect, name, nominate, opt, pack, pick out, plump for, pronounce, select, single, tag, take, tap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съдирам (bark, clapperclaw, jag, rend, rip, split, tear), ругая (abuse, be down on, call names, curse, cuss, damn, drub, get on to smb., inveigh, keelhaul, land on, rail, rate, revile, row, slang, storm at, swear, swear at, vituperate, walk into, whip), чеша (heckle, scratch), тъмносив цвят, шисти, критикувам остро (pan, roast, score, slash), определям за кандидат, наругавам (lace, lambaste, pepper, pitch into, skin, slang, talk to, tell off), покривам с плочи (slab), плоча от шисти, плоча (flag, flagstone, plate, slab, table). (various references)

Chinese 

板岩 . (various references)

Czech

seřezat (tan), vyèinit (reprove, take to task), krýt břidlicí, břidlicová tabulka, břidlice. (various references)

Danish

skifertavle (slate board), skifer (clay-schist, schist, shale). (various references)

Dutch

lei (slate board). (various references)

Esperanto

malaprobegi (do down, slash), ardezotabulo. (various references)

Farsi 

فهرست نامزدهای انتخاباتی (Poll), مقدرکردن (Destine, Fortune, Ordain), لوح سنگ , واقعه ای راثبت کردن , ورقه سنگ , تورق , تعیین کردن (Appoint, Assess, Assign, Bound, Determine, Fix, Locate, Prescribe, Qualify, Specify, State, Telloff), سنگ متورق , سنگ لوح , ذغال سنگ سخت وسنگی پوشاندن , بالوح سنگ تخته سنگ . (various references)

Finnish

liuske (schist), liuskakivi, kivitaulu (stone tablet). (various references)

French

ardoise (slate board). (various references)

German

Schiefertafel (slate board), Schiefer (schist, schists, shale, wrier). (various references)

Greek 

σχιστόλιθος (schist, shale). (various references)

Hebrew 

לוח צפחה (school slate), לבקר בחריפות (castigate, oppugn, pick to pieces), לרעף (cover with tiles, imbricate, tile), לנזוף (admonish, chide, dress down, flay, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, upbraid), רעף (tile), צפחה. (various references)

Hungarian

pala (schist, shale), választási jelölőlista, palatábla, palalemez. (various references)

Indonesian

daftar (catalogue, list, register, roster, table), batu tulis. (various references)

Irish

slinn. (various references)

Italian

ardesia (schist, schists). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

粘板岩 (clay rock), スルホ基 (sulfo group). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねんばんがん (clay rock), スレート . (various references)

Korean 

슬레이트. (various references)

Manx

sclate (tile, tile roof, tiled), cur lhic er (slating). (various references)

Pig Latin

ateslay.(various references)

Portuguese

ardósia (clay slate, shiver). (various references)

Romanian

tablã (backgammon, blackboard, board, sheet, slab, tin, tray), tãbliţã (tablet), placã (clip, pane, plaque, plate, record, sheet, slab, table), mustra (berate, chide, lash into, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, row, scold, snub, twit), judeca (adjudge, adjudicate, calculate, censure, condemn, criticize, deem, discuss, give, judge, ratiocinate, reason, think, try), freca (chafe, contuse, fret, grate, grease, rub, rub on, rub over, scrub), forfeca (shred, tear), critica (animadvert, arraign, attack, carp, censure, condemn, criticize, defame, judge, lash, pick, pick holes in, preach down, pull to pieces), biciui (censure, flog, horse, horsewhip, lace, lash, scourge, slash, swinge, swish, switch, welt, whip), ardezie, acoperi cu plãci de ardezie, înscrie pe listã. (various references)

Russian 

сланец (chert, schist, shale). (various references)

Scottish

sgliat, sglèata (a slate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prošlost (bygone, past, yesteryear), pokriti škriljcem, osuditi (censure, condemn, convict, damn, decry, denounce, deplore, deprecate, disapprove, excoriate, inveigh), naznačiti (indicate, mark, signify), kandidovati, škriljac (schist, shale). (various references)

Spanish

pizarra (blackboard, chalkboard, chert). (various references)

Swedish

skiffer (schist, shale), griffeltavla. (various references)

Turkish

cezalandırmak (castigate, chastise, cop it, correct, crime, discipline, dish out, give smb. gyp, penalize, plague, punish, sconce, scourge, smirk), aday listesi, arduvaz, arduvaz kaplamak, şiddetle eleştirmek (badmouth, excoriate, rap, reprehend), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate), önermek (commit, proffer, propose, propound, recommend, submit, suggest, vote), belirlemek (adjust, appoint, assess, assign, condition, decide, define, detect, determine, dictate, establish, identify, limit, note, peg, seal, set, set down, settle, single out, specify, state), yazı tahtası, film çekim tahtası, kınamak (blame, cast reflection on smb., castigate, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, disapprove, fault, remonstrate, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, stigmatize, strafe), kararlaştırmak (agree, appoint, arrange, concert, decide, determine, fix, fix on, fix up on, set, settle), kayağantaş, kayağantaşından yapılmış, yazı taşı, barut rengi (slate-gray, slate-grey, slatey, slaty). (various references)

Ukrainian

розгромна рецензія, шиферний сланець, шифер (schist, slat), крити шифером, грифельна дошка, висувати в кандидати, визнати безнадійним, давати прочухана. (various references)

Vietnamese 

gàn làm lại cuộc đời, bằng đá phiến, bằng đá acđoa, bỏ nhiệm vụ hâm hâm, đá bảng. (various references)

Welsh

llech (flag, slab). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "slate": slated, slatelike, slater, slaters, slates, slatey. (additional references)

Words ending with "slate": legislate, mistranslate, reslate, retranslate, translate. (additional references)

Words containing "slate": legislated, legislates, mistranslated, mistranslates, reslated, reslates, retranslated, retranslates, translated, translates, untranslated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alstoe, eslat, lsleten, olate, saate, Salathe, salati, Salette, salte, Salthe, sblate, Sclat, shlat, Sladek, slae, slage, slame, slane, Slatt, slaut, slaxe, slaye, sleater, slite, slito, sloet, slota, slote, slute, slutte, soate, solate, solmate, splate, zlabek, zlote. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: least, setal, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, tesla.

-1 letter: ales, alts, ates, east, eats, etas, lase, last, late, lats, leas, lest, lets, sale, salt, sate, seal, seat, seta, slat, tael, tale, teal, teas, tela, tels.

-2 letters: ale, als, alt, ate, eat, els, eta, las, lat, lea, let, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, tae, tas, tea, tel.

-3 letters: ae, al, as, at.

+1 letter: ablest, aglets, alates, alerts, alters, artels, bleats, castle, cleats, deltas, desalt, eclats, elates, estral, exalts, festal, halest, haslet, lamest, lasted, laster, latens, latest, lathes, latkes, lattes, laxest, leasts, lysate, metals, osteal, palest, palets, pastel, petals, plates, pleats, ratels, sallet, salted, salter, saltie, salute, samlet, septal, shelta, slated, slater, slates, slatey, solate, stable, staled, staler, stales, staple, steals, stelae, stelai, stelar, stella, tables, talers, tassel, teasel, tepals, teslas, valets, vestal.