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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sle?t/
• Hyphenation: slate
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English slate, slat, slatte, sclate, sclatte, from Old French esclate, from esclat (French éclat), from Frankish *slaitan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slaitijan?, causative of *sl?tan? (“to cut up, split”). Doublet of éclat.

Noun

slate (countable and uncountable, plural slates)

2. (uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
3. (uncountable) The bluish-grey colour of most slate.

4. (countable) A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools
5. (countable) A roofing-tile made of slate.
6. (countable) A record of money owed.

   Put it on my slate – I’ll pay you next week.

7. (countable, chiefly US) A list of affiliated candidates for an election.

   Roy Disney led the alternative slate of directors for the stockholder vote.

8. An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.
9. A thin plate of any material; a flake.
10. A tablet computer.
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Synonyms

• (colour/color): slate blue, slate grey, slate gray
• (record of money owed): account, bill

Derived terms

• clean slate
• magic slate
• on the slate
• slate-coloured
• slate-coloured junco
• slate pencil
• slaty
• wipe the slate clean
• blank slate

See also

• basalt
• blackboard
• chalkboard
• whiteboard
• Appendix:Colors

Translations

Adjective

slate (not comparable)

1. Having the bluish-grey/gray colour of slate.

Hyponyms

• slate black
• slate brown
• slate blue
• slate gray/grey

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English slatten, sclatten, from the noun (see above).

Verb

slate (third-person singular simple present slates, present participle slating, simple past and past participle slated)

1. (transitive) To cover with slate.

   The old church ledgers show that the roof was slated in 1775.

2. (transitive, chiefly Britain) To criticise harshly.

   The play was slated by the critics.

3. (transitive, chiefly US) To schedule.
4. (transitive, chiefly US) To anticipate or strongly expect.

   The next version of our software is slated to be the best release ever.

5. (transitive, regional) To set a dog upon (a person).

Derived terms

• slater
• slating

Translations

References

• slate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Astle, ETLAs, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla