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 chalk [tʃɒ:k]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 粉笔, 白垩

vt. 用粉笔写, 记录

[化] 白垩

[医] 白垩


  1. The teacher wrote on the blackboard with a piece of chalk.
    老师用一支粉笔在黑板上写字。
  2. Dust yourself down you're covered in chalk.
    把你自己身上掸掸--上面都是粉笔末.
  3. We're not beaten yet, (not) by a long chalk.
    我们还没有败, 远远没败.


chalk
[ noun ]
  1. a soft whitish calcite

  2. <noun.substance>
  3. a pure flat white with little reflectance

  4. <noun.attribute>
  5. an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

  6. <noun.artifact>
  7. a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces

  8. <noun.artifact>
[ verb ]
  1. write, draw, or trace with chalk

  2. <verb.creation>


Chalk \Chalk\, v. t. [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.


Chalk \Chalk\ (ch[add]k), n. [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}, n., 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.

  1. Still others manage to chalk up mileage without even flying.
  2. The head gardener at the arboretum thinks Roy might be wrong because he himself grows it on an open slope of chalk above the centre of Winchester.
  3. But, unfortunately for the impoverished city, it is not the worst parking fine offender by a long chalk.
  4. Andre Benard is French joint chairman of Eurotunnel, the Anglo-French consortium pursuing an age-old dream, the linking of Britain and France with a tunnel bored through the chalk marl beneath the English Channel.
  5. Anderson said he plans to collect items such as ballpoint pens, chalk, paper and clothing.
  6. A middle wall 3 yards long and made of gray-white chalk blocks is believed to be part of the first Globe theater, while an inner brick wall, 1 yard long and with a layer of crushed hazelnuts, may be part of the second Globe, he said.
  7. His thing being painting chalk portraits on sidewalks.
  8. The threading of the probes through 100 yards of chalk under the English Channel marks a major turning point in three years of drilling on the world's costliest tunnel.
  9. About 100 people dropped flat on their backs on Pennsylvania Avenue, while other demonstrators drew chalk outlines around their bodies in the fashion of police lines at a homicide site.
  10. He was equally at ease with chalk, ink, watercolors, acrylic and oils.
  11. He occasionally smooths the underside of the top with very fine sandpaper and frequently chalks it with soft builders' chalk.
  12. For Cray, Mr. Chen's departure shatters an unusual internal setup that has enabled the company to chalk up a remarkable track record.
  13. So far, the diversification outside traditional commercial banking has helped Security Pacific chalk up 12 consecutive years of record earnings.
  14. Although Mr. Turner's Atlanta Braves baseball team is a steady money-loser, the Atlanta Hawks, his basketball team, may chalk up a profit next season for the first time.
  15. Eleven of these drawings, black chalk studies of famous contemporaries, were engraved as a series and published between 1636-41 as The Iconography.
  16. One of the highlights of the exhibition is Raphael's "Nude Woman Kneeling," a red chalk drawing dated 1518 which the Scottish gallery bought recently from a private English collection.
  17. You can't do this with a piece of chalk on a blackboard or a felt-tip pen on a transparency; they're simply too slow and cumbersome.
  18. A member of the New Wave group, parodied Supreme Court Chief Justice William Renquist by dressing in a white wig and black robe, stood over them and outlined their bodies with yellow chalk.
  19. The chalk foundations lie 6 feet below the modern surface.
  20. Using blue, pink and yellow chalk, teacher Hiroo Nemoto draws arrows and diagrams on the blackboard as he explains chemical reactions.
  21. And of course anyone is free to make a purely cash bid. The difficulty in evaluating these various bids is that they are chalk and cheese.
  22. In all four countries real gross domestic product is down from its level of a year ago. In contrast, most European economies managed to chalk up positive performances in 1991, although they posted slower growth than in 1990.
  23. Mind your head when you live in the county of Goodwood and Glyndebourne. The South Downs, a low range of chalk hills, seem majestic.
  24. He made an exception for Europe's greatest sculptor, Giovanni Bologna, whose portrait in chalk rivals what its subject could achieve in three dimensions with bronze.
  25. After the rally, demonstrators walked to Pennsylvania Avenue, which had been blocked off by police, where some protesters used chalk to draw the outlines of bodies in the street.
  26. Tenareze is a heavier blend of chalk and clay, while Haut Armagnac makes the worst spirits on its wholly chalk soils.
  27. Tenareze is a heavier blend of chalk and clay, while Haut Armagnac makes the worst spirits on its wholly chalk soils.
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