 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
chalk
noun
1: a soft whitish calcite
2: a pure flat white with little reflectance
3: amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride;
used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an
appetite suppressant [syn: {methamphetamine}, {methamphetamine
hydrochloride}, {Methedrine}, {meth}, {deoxyephedrine}, {chicken
feed}, {crank}, {glass}, {ice}, {shabu}, {trash}]
4: a piece of chalk (or similar substance) used for writing on
blackboards or other surfaces
verb: write, draw, or trace with chalk
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chalk \Chalk\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Chalked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Chalking}.]
1. To rub or mark with chalk.
2. To manure with chalk, as land. --Morimer.
3. To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
--Tennyson.
Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. --Herbert.
{To chalk out}, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to
outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] ''I shall pursue
the plan I have chalked out.'' --Burke.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chalk \Chalk\ (ch[add]k), noun [AS. cealc lime, from L. calx
limestone. See {Calz}, and {Cawk}.]
1. (Min.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or
yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate,
and having the same composition as common limestone.
2. (Fine Arts) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing
implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and
black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See
{Crayon}.
{Black chalk}, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty
texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety
of argillaceous slate.
{By a long chalk}, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang]
--Lowell.
{Chalk drawing} (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See
{Crayon}.
{Chalk formation}. See {Cretaceous formation}, under
{Cretaceous}.
{Chalk line}, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making
straight lines on boards or other material, as a guide in
cutting or in arranging work.
{Chalk mixture}, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar
in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of
infants.
{Chalk period}. (Geol.) See {Cretaceous period}, under
{Cretaceous}.
{Chalk pit}, a pit in which chalk is dug.
{Drawing chalk}. See {Crayon}, noun, 1.
{French chalk}, steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian
mineral.
{Red chalk}, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and
used by painters and artificers; reddle.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
217 Moby Thesaurus words for "chalk":
air brush, alabaster, art paper, ballpoint pen, besnow, blackboard,
blanch, blaze, blaze a trail, bleach, blemish, blotch, book, brand,
brush, calcimine, calendar, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas,
cartoon, carve, catalog, chalk up, charcoal, check, check in,
check off, chronicle, cicatrize, color, copy, crayon, crosshatch,
cut, dapple, dash, dash off, daub, define, delimit, delineate,
demarcate, depict, design, diagram, discolor, docket, doodle, dot,
draft, draw, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, driven snow,
easel, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, eraser, etiolate, file,
fill out, fixative, fleck, fleece, flour, foam, freckle, frost,
gash, grave, grizzle, ground, hatch, impanel, impress, imprint,
incise, index, ink, inkhorn, inkstand, inkwell, inscribe, insert,
invisible ink, ivory, jot down, lay figure, lead pencil, lily,
limn, line, list, log, maggot, make a mark, make a memorandum,
make a note, make an entry, make out, mark, mark down, mark off,
mark out, matriculate, maulstick, medium, milk, minute, mottle,
nib, nick, notch, note, note down, paint, paint a picture,
paintbrush, palette, palette knife, paper, pastel, pearl, pen,
pencil, pepper, picture, picturize, pigments, pipe-clay,
place upon record, plume, point, poll, portray, post, post up,
prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, put down, put in writing,
put on paper, put on tape, quill, record, reduce to writing, reed,
register, riddle, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scratch,
scratchboard, scumble, seal, seam, set down, shade, sheet,
siccative, silver, sketch, sketchbook, sketchpad, slate, snow,
spatula, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, spray gun, stain, stamp,
stencil, stigmatize, streak, striate, stripe, stump, style,
stylograph, stylus, swan, sympathetic ink, table, tablet, tabulate,
take down, tape, tape-record, tattoo, tick, tick off, tint, trace,
underline, underscore, varnish, videotape, white, whiten,
whitewash, write, write down, write in, write out, write up
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Chalk, TX
Zip code(s): 79248
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