English words for 'abounding in chalk'
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- (slang) An opaque white chalk marble with colored stripes.
- An exercise similar to an abdominal crunch, performed by lying flat on one´s back and then bringing the knees toward the chest while simultaneously raising the chest to meet the knees.
- (informal) A chinchilla.
- A Chinese pink (Dianthus chinensis).
- Tailor's chalk.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horse racing) The favorite in a sporting event.
- (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
- (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO₃).
- a pure flat white with little reflectance
- a soft whitish calcite
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces
- write, draw, or trace with chalk
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- (figurative) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
- A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
- A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
- in family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (Canada) Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
- in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
- A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
- (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
- any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
- flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
- flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
- a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
- a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
- found off Atlantic coast of North America
- (literally) To set off an area or shape with chalk.
- (idiomatic) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- (transitive, slang) To kill (someone).
- (transitive) To dismiss or be dismissive towards (someone or something); to reject (someone or something).
- (transitive) To mark off (something).
- (transitive) To chalk (someone) up dismissively or jeeringly.
- (idiomatic) To disallow or cancel
- (intransitive) To deduct from something; to separate from something.
- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
- (education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a chalkboard.
- (oil and gas) A dry drillhole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
- (papermaking) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
- (baseball) A high pitch toward the batter.
- (military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled anti-aircraft gun.
- A loose-fitting long coat.
- (milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
- Someone who dusts.
- A duststorm.
- An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.
- (Philippines) A type of loose dress worn at home as well as within the vicinity of one's home.
- a piece of cloth used for dusting
- a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
- a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
- a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter
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- (slang) An opaque white chalk marble with colored stripes.
- An exercise similar to an abdominal crunch, performed by lying flat on one´s back and then bringing the knees toward the chest while simultaneously raising the chest to meet the knees.
- (informal) A chinchilla.
- A Chinese pink (Dianthus chinensis).
- Tailor's chalk.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horse racing) The favorite in a sporting event.
- (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
- (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO₃).
- a pure flat white with little reflectance
- a soft whitish calcite
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces
- write, draw, or trace with chalk
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- (figurative) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
- A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
- A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
- in family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (Canada) Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
- in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
- A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
- (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
- any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
- flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
- flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
- a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
- a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
- found off Atlantic coast of North America
- (education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a chalkboard.
- (oil and gas) A dry drillhole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
- (papermaking) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
- (baseball) A high pitch toward the batter.
- (military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled anti-aircraft gun.
- A loose-fitting long coat.
- (milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
- Someone who dusts.
- A duststorm.
- An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.
- (Philippines) A type of loose dress worn at home as well as within the vicinity of one's home.
- a piece of cloth used for dusting
- a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
- a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
- a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter
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- Tailor's chalk.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horse racing) The favorite in a sporting event.
- (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
- (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO₃).
- a pure flat white with little reflectance
- a soft whitish calcite
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces
- write, draw, or trace with chalk
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- (figurative) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- (literally) To set off an area or shape with chalk.
- (idiomatic) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- (transitive, slang) To kill (someone).
- (transitive) To dismiss or be dismissive towards (someone or something); to reject (someone or something).
- (transitive) To mark off (something).
- (transitive) To chalk (someone) up dismissively or jeeringly.
- (idiomatic) To disallow or cancel
- (intransitive) To deduct from something; to separate from something.
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- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- deficient in amount or quality or extent