Slatename

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  A surname.

  • Kelly Slate packs a mirror in the back of a truck after her home was flooded in Planada on Wednesday, January 11.

slatenoun詞源 1/sleɪt/

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  A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers.

  • Some of the minor Welsh 2 ft. gauge railways, we hear from Mr. N. F. G. Dalston, are enjoying a miniature boom owing to the demand for slate for the repair of damaged roofs.
  • In 1765 only 80 men were employed, and the annual output of slates did not exceed 1,000 tons, and large-scale quarrying was not begun by Lord Penrhyn until 1782.
• 2

  A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers.

• 3

  A generally rectangular piece, originally of certain types of stone and now of other materials, often in a frame, used for writing on with a thin rod of the same or another stone (a slate pencil) or with chalk; a small chalkboard.

  • He wrote all down one side of the slate and all up the other, and then remarked--"As there's no time to finish that, The time has come to have our chat."
• 4

  computingengineeringmathematicsSynonym of tablet computer (“a hand-held portable computer in the form of a tablet with a touch screen interface”).

  • Hearing Steve Ballmer and others talk about the availability of Windows 8 on slates, laptops, netbooks, notebooks, and screens from 7 to 70 inches might lead us to believe that Microsoft is attempting to gain market share solely through […]
• 5

  broadcastingfilmmediaSynonym of clapperboard (“a device consisting of a board on which information about a film being recorded is noted, and a hinged piece which is brought down on the board with a clap at the start and end of each take of the film; it is used to synchronize picture and sound during editing”).

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  broadcastingfilmmediaSynonym of clapperboard (“a device consisting of a board on which information about a film being recorded is noted, and a hinged piece which is brought down on the board with a clap at the start and end of each take of the film; it is used to synchronize picture and sound during editing”).

• 7

  A record, for example, of money owed.

  • Put it on my slate—I’ll pay you next week.
• 8

  A range of things; also, a schedule.

  • The Chairman James Kaplan tended to his busy slate of record and film projects, while Mia, too, actively sought movie work, somewhat to her husband's chagrin.
  • If it sounds like an impossibly busy slate, it turned out to be just that.

slateadj詞源 1/sleɪt/

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  Having the bluish-grey colour of slate (noun etymology 1, noun sense 4).

slateverb詞源 1/sleɪt/

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  To cover (a building, or part of a building such as a floor or roof) with slates (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1).

  • The old church ledgers show that the roof was slated in 1775.
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  To write (something) on a writing slate (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1).

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  To write (something) on a writing slate (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1).

  • The next version of our software is slated to be the best release ever.
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  To write (something) on a writing slate (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1).

  • The election was slated for November 2nd.
  • The Cleethorpes to Barton-on-Humber branch had been slated to transfer from Northern into the East Midlands franchise, but this move is still awaiting a DfT decision.
• 5

  broadcastingfilmmediaTo provide synchronization information about (a scene, take, etc., of a film recording) using a slate (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.3.1).

  • Why You Want to Slate your Shots
• 6

  To scrape (an animal hide) with a slater (“blade originally made of slate”) to remove hairs.

• 7

  To cover a building, or part of a building with slates (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1).

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  broadcastingfilmmediaTo provide a film recording with synchronization information, especially using a slate (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.3.1).

slateverb詞源 2/sleɪt/

• 1

  To scold (someone) harshly; to chastise, to excoriate, to lambaste.

  • "I'm awfully sorry if I gave it to her too hot; she deserved it; but i did not want to be a brute." / "But you were," said Pattie with grave regret. / "If I was, Val slated me hard enough. So we may cry quits over that!" said Gip, her gleam of repentance passing into space and her naughty passions once more triumphant.
• 2

  To scold (someone) harshly; to chastise, to excoriate, to lambaste.

  • The play was slated by the critics.
  • It makes me mad to hear that wretched Mouse, when he wants to slate a very good novel, declare that there is no romance in real life.
• 3

  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsTo treat (an enemy) harshly.

  • Now we shall get "slated," I thought, if there is any one there: a few good shots might have picked off every one on deck.
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  slangTo beat or thrash (someone) harshly.

  • "Does John Barker live here?" asks Thurnall, putting his head in cautiously for fear of drunken Irishmen, who might be seized with the national impulse to "slate" him.
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  obsoleteTo knock the hat of (someone) forward over their eyes as a joke.

  • Another point of amusement is flying a tile or slating a man, as the phrases of the Stock Exchange describe it. […] One who was foremost in slating his brothers, or kicking about a new castor, had himself just sported a new hat, but, […] he would leave his new tile at the counting-house, and proceed to the Stock Exchange in an old one kept for the purpose: this becoming known to some of the wags, members of the house, they despatched a note and obtained the new hat, which no sooner made its appearance in the house than it was thrown up for general sport; […]

slatenoun詞源 2/sleɪt/

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  datedSynonym of slating (“a harsh criticism”).

  • [Thomas] Carlyle's savage "slate" of him [Frederick Marryat] is unjust to a degree which can only be palliated by the fact that it was founded on a hasty reading of his books in the evil days after the loss of the manuscript of the French Revolution.

slateverb詞源 3/sleɪt/

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  To set (one or more dogs) on a person or animal; to sic.

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  To set one or more dogs on (a person or animal).

slatenoun詞源 4/sleɪt/

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  derogatoryarchaicobsoleterareA dirty or slovenly person.

  • Had aff [hold off], quoth ſhe, ye filthy Slate, / Ye ſtink o' Leeks, O figh!