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US
/ˈsɫeɪt/
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[ UK /slˈeɪt/ ]
[ UK /slˈeɪt/ ]
NOUN
- thin layers of rock used for roofing
- a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers
- (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate
- a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices
VERB
-
designate or schedule
She was slated to be his successor
He slated his talk for 9 AM -
cover with slate
slate the roof -
enter on a list or slate for an election
He was slated for borough president
How To Use slate In A Sentence
- Sony Pictures Animation has a full slate of films including the mouth-watering 3D comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which opened as the #1 movie in North America on September 18, Hotel Transylvania, now in pre-production and, in association with Columbia Pictures, The Smurfs, now in production. Anton Yelchin and Fred Armisen Join The Smurfs | /Film
- I could perceive no trace of a metallic vein, so thoroughly had it been worked out, but scattered over the hillside with schist, talcose slate, and fragments of quartz, was a great deal of scoriae, showing that metal of some kind had been excavated, and that the smelting had been done on the spot. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
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- As precise definitions of words do not translate well from one language to another, words connoting latria and dulia vary from one language to another.
- The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
- Soldado literally translates as 'soldier'. The Sun
- The couples agreed on a discreet slate-tiled mansard roof extension that gave each house an additional 30sq m of floor space. Times, Sunday Times
- But after three consecutive nights of camping out I'd had enough, especially since the last had been spent near Verdun in Le Foret du Mort Homme, which translates as Dead Man's Forest.
- The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden. Wildwood
- High-level synthesis is also called behavioral synthesis, the main task of which is to translate the behavioral description of a digital system into the design of RTL (Register Transfer Level).