Definition of slate

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Slate (v. t.) Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.

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Pipestone :: Pipestone (n.) A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite..
Interpret :: Interpret (v. t.) To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech..
Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad..
Cleavage :: Cleavage (n.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure..
Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand..
Hellier :: Hellier (v. t.) One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher..
Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A tablet for writing upon.
Phyllite :: Phyllite (n.) Clay slate; argillaceous schist.
Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another..
Crisscross :: Crisscross (n.) A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross..
Traduce :: Traduce (v. t.) To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works..
Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree..
Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To cause to remove from one part of the body to another; as, to translate a disease..
Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text..
Slating :: Slating (n.) Slates, collectively; also, material for slating..
Transdialect :: Transdialect (v. t.) To change or translate from one dialect into another.
Translatory :: Translatory (a.) Serving to translate; transferring.
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..
Argillite :: Argillite (n.) Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc..
"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..
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