Definition of slate

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Slate (v. t.) A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc..

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Slate :: Slate (v. t.) An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes..
Slate :: Slate (v. t.) Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
Translate :: Translate (v. t.) To change into another form; to transform.
Gauge :: Gauge (n.) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles..
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..
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..
Englishable :: Englishable (a.) Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English..
Slate :: Slate (v. t.) To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment..
Convert :: Convert (v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.
Shindle :: Shindle (n.) A shingle; also, a slate for roofing..
Metempsychose :: Metempsychose (v. t.) To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another..
Slat :: Slat (v. t.) To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate.
Peshitto :: Peshitto (n.) The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament..
Tail :: Tail (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile..
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..
Sora :: Sora (n.) A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto..
Schist :: Schist (n.) Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar..
Schistaceous :: Schistaceous (a.) Of a slate color.
Flashing :: Flashing (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting..
Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A thin plate of any material; a flake.
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