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Image:Chalk.jpg|thumb|right|Colorful chalk used for writing or drawing.

English

Alternative spellings


Etymology

Old English cealc, borrowed from calx#Latin|calx, limestone, borrowed from χάλιξ, pebble.

Pronunciation


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Noun

chalk (uncountable and countable; plural chalks)

  1. A soft, white, powdery limestone.
  2. A piece of chalk, or, more often, processed compressed chalk, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.
  3. Tailor's chalk.
  4. (climbing) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing.
  5. ,, A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers

Translations

  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|kreda|f}}
  • Chinese: 白堊, 白垩 (bái è)
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|křída|f}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|krijt|n}}
  • Esperanto: {{t-|eo|kreto|xs=Esperanto}}
  • Finnish: liitukivi
  • French: {{t+|fr|craie|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Kreide|f}}
  • Greek: κρητίδα [kriˈtiða]
  • Icelandic: krítarsteinn
  • Irish: {{t-|ga|cailc|f|xs=Irish}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|gesso|m}}, {{t+|it|creta|f}}
  • Japanese: 白亜 (はくあ, hakua)

: See tailor's chalk|tailor's chalk

Verb

  1. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiards cue
  2. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
  3. To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
  4. To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.


Derived terms


Related terms


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Chalk \Chalk\ (ch[add]k), 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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Chalk \Chalk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chalked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Chalking.]
1. To rub or mark with chalk.
[1913 Webster]

2. To manure with chalk, as land. --Morimer.
[1913 Webster]

3. To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]

Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. --Herbert.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet chalk
n 1: a soft whitish calcite
2: a pure flat white with little reflectance
3: amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride;
used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an
appetite suppressant [syn: methamphetamine, {methamphetamine
hydrochloride}, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, {chicken
feed}, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash]
4: a piece of chalk (or similar substance) used for writing on
blackboards or other surfaces
v : write, draw, or trace with chalk
Moby Dictionary
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


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