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English

Alternative forms

• chaulk (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English chalk, chalke, from Old English cealc, borrowed from Latin calx (“limestone”), again borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khálix, “pebble”). Doublet of calx and cauk.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t????k/
• (General American) enPR: chôk, IPA^(key): /t???k/
• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): /t???k/
  • Homophone: chock
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

chalk (countable and uncountable, plural chalks)

1. (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone.

2. (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.

3. Tailor's chalk.
4. (uncountable, climbing) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk.

5. (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
6. (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
7. (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ??? (c?k)
• ? Japanese: ??? (chako), ???? (ch?ku)
• ? Nepali: ?? (cak)
• ? Swahili: chaki
• ? Swazi: íshóki
• ? Thai: ????? (ch??k)
• ? Tsonga: choko
• ? Tulu: ???? (c?k)

Translations

Verb

chalk (third-person singular simple present chalks, present participle chalking, simple past and past participle chalked)

1. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.

2. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
3. To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
4. (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
5. To manure (land) with chalk.
6. To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
   • Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.

Derived terms

Related terms

• calcium
• calx
• chalkboard

See also

• chalk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chalk (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chalk (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Alternative forms

• chalke, schalk, calke, schalke

Etymology

From Old English cealc, borrowed from Latin calx, in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khálix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?alk/
• (rare) IPA^(key): /kalk/
• Rhymes: -alk

Noun

chalk (uncountable)

1. chalk

Descendants

• English: chalk (see there for further descendants); cauk, cawk
• Scots: cauk, cawk

References

• “chalk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-14.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æ?k

Noun

chank (plural chanks)

1. (East India) The large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in making bangles, especially Turbinella pyrum.

Verb

chank (third-person singular simple present chanks, present participle chanking, simple past and past participle chanked)

1. (US) To eat noisily; to champ or chomp