Definition of slate

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Slate (v. t.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.

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Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease..
Planchette :: Planchette (n.) A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import..
Zax :: Zax (n.) A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.
Englishable :: Englishable (a.) Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English..
Bare :: Bare (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather..
Construe :: Construe (v. t. ) To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate..
"adonist :: Adonist (n.) One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah are really the vowel points of the word Adonai. See Jehovist..
Alum Shale :: Alum shale () A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock..
Shiver-spar :: Shiver-spar (n.) A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar..
Translator :: Translator (n.) One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another..
Snakestone :: Snakestone (n.) A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.
Tail :: Tail (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile..
Graptolitic :: Graptolitic (a.) Of or pertaining to graptolites; containing graptolites; as, a graptolitic slate..
Phyllite :: Phyllite (n.) Clay slate; argillaceous schist.
Keramographic :: Keramographic (a.) Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe..
Fault :: Fault (n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc..
Slating :: Slating (n.) The act of covering with slate, slates, or a substance resembling slate; the work of a slater..
Translated :: Translated (imp. & p. p.) of Translat.
English :: English (v. t.) To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain..
Mistranslate :: Mistranslate (v. t.) To translate erroneously.
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