different between chalk vs supper

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?p?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sopere, from Old French soper, from sope (“soup”). Compare French souper.

Noun

supper (countable and uncountable, plural suppers)

1. Food consumed before going to bed.
2. Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
3. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, slang) A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.

   a fish supper; a pizza supper

Synonyms

• (meal): dinner; see also Thesaurus:meal

Derived terms

• kitchen supper
• Last Supper
• Lord's Supper
• lupper
• brupper

Related terms

• soup

Translations

Verb

supper (third-person singular simple present suppers, present participle suppering, simple past and past participle suppered)

1. To consume a snack before retiring.
2. To eat dinner (see above).

Translations

Etymology 2

sup +? -er

Noun

supper (plural suppers)

1. A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).

Translations

Anagrams

• Ruppes, uppers

Danish

Noun

supper c

1. indefinite plural of suppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

supper m or f

1. indefinite plural of suppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

supper f

1. indefinite plural of suppe