CHALK Definition & Meaning

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chalk

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noun

a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
a prepared piece of chalk or chalklike substance for marking, as for writing on a blackboard.
a mark made with chalk.
a score or tally.
Sports Slang. the competitor considered most likely to win by the oddsmakers; favorite:
If you don’t know anything about either team, just bet the chalk.

verb (used with object)

to mark or write with chalk.
to rub over or whiten with chalk.
to treat or mix with chalk:
to chalk a billiard cue.
to make pale; blanch:
Terror chalked her face.

verb (used without object)

(of paint) to powder from weathering.

adjective

of, made of, or drawn with chalk.

verb phrase

1. to score or earn:
  They chalked up two runs in the first inning.
2. to charge or ascribe to:
  It was a poor performance, but may be chalked up to lack of practice.

chalk

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noun

a soft fine-grained white sedimentary rock consisting of nearly pure calcium carbonate, containing minute fossil fragments of marine organisms, usually without a cementing material
a piece of chalk or a substance like chalk, often coloured, used for writing and drawing on a blackboard
a line, mark, etc made with chalk
billiards snooker a small cube of prepared chalk or similar substance for rubbing the tip of a cue
a score, tally, or record
as alike as chalk and cheese or as different as chalk and cheese informal.
totally different in essentials
by a long chalk informal.
by far
can't tell chalk from cheese or doesn't know chalk from cheese
to be unable to judge or appreciate important differences
not by a long chalk informal.
by no means; not possibly
modifier made of chalk

verb

to draw or mark (something) with chalk
tr to mark, rub, or whiten with or as if with chalk
intr (of paint) to become chalky; powder
tr to spread chalk on (land) as a fertilizer

chalk

A soft, white, gray, or yellow limestone consisting mainly of calcium carbonate and formed primarily from the accumulation of fossil microorganisms such as foraminifera and calcareous algae. Chalk is used in making lime, cement, and fertilizers, and as a whitening pigment in ceramics, paints, and cosmetics. The chalk used in classrooms is usually artificial.

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Derived Forms

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of chalk¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English chalk, schalk, calk, Old English cealc “plaster, cement”; cognate with Old Saxon calc, Dutch kalk, German Kalch, Kalk, from Latin calc- (stem of calx ) “lime, limestone, quicklime,” from Greek ��á�� “small stone, rubble, gravel, mortar”

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of chalk¹

Old English cealc, from Latin calx limestone, from Greek khalix pebble

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Showing our appreciation for first responders from the region with a morning chalk talk and meet + greet at @zillow Draft HQ.

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With layers of clay and bedrock of chalk, the subsurface is too soft to drill a bore tunnel, said Per Goltermann, a professor in concrete and structures at the Technical University of Denmark.

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On April 25, before Day 2 of the draft begins, the Rams will honor 150 responders during a “chalk talk” with McVay, Snead and other Rams executives.

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He chalked up the controversy to a “not in my backyard” attitude.

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B-Real chalks it up to the “prestige and history” of the venue and respecting its rules.

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chalicothere chalk and talk

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