slate
/sleɪt/ noun C1- A piece of such stone, usually cut into a rectangular shape, used as a tile for flooring, roofing, etc.; (uncountable) such tiles collectively, or the material from which they are made.
- A piece of other material used as a roofing tile.
- 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.
- Synonym of tablet computer (“a hand-held portable computer in the form of a tablet with a touch screen interface”).
- A sequentially numbered session of recording a film.
- Information about a film recording which is inserted at the start of the recording, or printed on a videotape label etc.
- A record, for example, of money owed. · Put it on my slate—I’ll pay you next week.
- A range of things; also, a schedule.
Plural slates
From the library
But Ruby Gillis says she saw him writing something on her slate and when Prissy read it she blushed as red as a beet and giggled; and Ruby Gillis says she doesn’t believe it had anything to do with the lesson.”
At once the cap changed to a slate, on which was written in big, white chalk marks:
The little old woman took the slate from her nose, and having read the words on it, asked, “Is your name Dorothy, my dear?”
Phillips said my spelling was disgraceful and he held up my slate so that everybody could see it, all marked over.
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