Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A smooth hard panel, usually green or black, for writing on with chalk; a blackboard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a dark sheet of slate used as a surface for writing on, with chalk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
slate board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to awhiteboard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sheet of slate; for writing with chalk
Etymologies
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Examples
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So imagine your favorite die in chalkboard vinyl for your wall ...
Archive 2009-12-01 jpitta 2009
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So imagine your favorite die in chalkboard vinyl for your wall ...
On Santa's naughty list... jpitta 2009
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As they leave for the runway, a chalkboard is visible on which someone has written "TMV."
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
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As they leave for the runway, a chalkboard is visible on which someone has written "TMV."
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
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As they leave for the runway, a chalkboard is visible on which someone has written "TMV."
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
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The sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard is a noise produced when fingernails are dragged across a chalkboard, producing vibration.
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So a large group of the students have to sit with their backs to the board, and it's not like the chalkboard is in the center of that area ... it's off to one side, the far side, closest to the door.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008
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He hung the little chalkboard from the door and shut it, locking the doors tight.
Hunger Moon: Chapter Eleven amberfocus 2008
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A match made in chalkboard heaven, which is how these two unimposing teams made it here.
USATODAY.com 2005
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Unless you could argue that the virtual chalkboard is one? fdr
oroboros commented on the word chalkboard
Before his students arrived for a graduate course in logic, Raymond Smullyan wrote on the blackboard:
PLEASE DO NOT ERASE — BECAUSE IF YOU DO, THOSE WHO COME LATER WON'T KNOW THAT THEY SHOULDN'T ERASE.
July 14, 2008
bilby commented on the word chalkboard
I'm tempted to make a comment here and delete it.
July 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word chalkboard
If you do, Wordies who come later won't know....
Oh, forget it.
July 21, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word chalkboard
"Can those at the back hear me?"
July 22, 2008
gangerh commented on the word chalkboard
No.
July 22, 2008