Chalk

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A soft compact calcite, CaCO3, with varying amounts of silica, quartz, feldspar, or other mineral impurities, generally gray-white or yellow-white and derived chiefly from fossil seashells. noun

A piece of chalk or chalklike substance in crayon form, used for marking on a blackboard or other surface. noun

A small cube of chalk used in rubbing the tip of a billiard or pool cue to increase its friction with the cue ball. noun

A mark made with chalk. noun

A score or tally. noun

To mark, draw, or write with chalk. transitive verb

To rub or cover with chalk, as the tip of a billiard cue. transitive verb

To make pale; whiten. transitive verb

To treat (soil, for example) with chalk. transitive verb

To earn or score. phrasal verb

To credit or ascribe. phrasal verb

In geological nomenclature the term chalk has been employed with a variety of meanings. In the English subdivisions of the Cretaceous system the Chalk constitutes the upper part of this system, resting on the Galt and Greensand, which in turn lies on the basal division or Wealden. noun

To rub or mark with chalk.

To manure with chalk.

Figuratively, to make chalky-white; blanch; make pale.

To mark; trace out; describe: from the use of chalk in marking lines.

In Scotland, to mark the door of a burgh tenant with chalk, an old mode of notice to quit, which is still competent.

In geology, a soft white rock, consisting almost entirely of carbonate of lime in a pulverulent or only slightly consolidated state, and readily soiling the fingers when handled. noun

A piece of prepared chalk used for marking on a dark surface. noun

A soft, white, powdery limestone.

A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.

Tailor's chalk.

A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk.

A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.

(horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.

The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.

Its used to describe the favorite, mostly in betting and gambling Urban Dictionary

The expected outcome, especially in a sporting event. Derived from, "you can chalk that up right now, we don't even have to see it." Urban Dictionary

(noun) A theory regarding a mystery. Refers to the practice of chalkboarding/whiteboarding ideas and expanding on them. (verb) To actively theorize about said mysteries. Often used when someone is coming up with tinfoil theories. Urban Dictionary

A derogatory term used for a 'dusty' guy, usually one lacking any wheels, or is just in general, someone who is very uncool. This is a thinly concealed racist term, deriving from "Choc," a slang term for a black person. Urban Dictionary

London expression for coke (cocaine) Urban Dictionary

1. A hard, white, powdery substance traditionally used to write on slate panels and other hard surfaces. CaCO3, calcium carbonate. 2. To mark, as with chalk. 3. To meet a mark or level fully; to be full to a limit. 4. To attribute to someone or some thing. Urban Dictionary

Another word born in Cheltenham High School meaning any of the following: 1) to blow something off 2) to damage, destroy, or hurt someone/something 3) to ignore or disregard 4) to take it like a boss Urban Dictionary

To randomly go up to someone and start making out with them without warning. Urban Dictionary

- to steal ghetto-slang. Origin: San Francisco Bay Area Urban Dictionary

When a person is physically or emotionally hurt and they don't show it at all Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to chalk:
chalk, calk, chark, chak, chank, chal, chauk, chald, chack, halk, chala, schalk, chale, chals, chaulk, chalc, chall, chali, chalu, chawk.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word chalk:
marl, blackboard, scarp, grassland, downs, cliffs, escarpment, cretaceous, aquifer, dorset, carbonate, quarry, pits, strata, eroded, flint, scrub, orchid, lime, pit, limestone, quarries, bluff, drawings, laboratories, outline, calcium, beds, clay, deposited, streams, dover, deposits, fossils, gravel, woodland, circle, dug, reactor, salisbury, sands, cement, cliff, hills, geological, valleys, berkshire, sandstone, slopes, erosion, formation, cheese, dust, slope, ink, stream, powder, thames, paint, heath, trout, isle, drawing, rocks, sussex, ridge, farm, flora, soil, plateau, rises, hampshire, hill, layer, plain, sand, kent, marks, talks, characteristic, exposed, dry, habitat, thin, portrait, ago, fly, talk, river.

Words that rhyme with chalk:
stock, block, rock, talk, lock, clock, walk, cock, shock, hawk, mock, dock, flock, stalk, balk, ad hoc, hoc, hock, knock, bloc, toque, sock, doc, deadlock, hemlock, livestock, gawk, peacock, bedrock, chock, roc, smock, bach, jock, squawk, mach, crock, iraq, wok, interlock, baulk, brock, caulk, catwalk, ad-hoc, frock, poppycock, mohawk, gridlock, crosstalk, tock, roadblock, nock, wedlock, unlock, sidewalk, loch, matlock, shamrock, crosswalk, schlock, tomahawk, calk, glock, bok, aftershock, jaywalk, locke, medoc, nighthawk, antioch, havelock, jacques, bock, bokeh, lok, padlock, woodcock, manioc, croc, pock, boardwalk, oarlock, feedstock, airlock, floc, gamecock, small talk, goshawk, hollyhock, laughingstock, spock, shylock, och, falk, sherlock, salk, hancock, bangkok, bloch.

Adjectives that are often used to describe chalk:
white, red, black, french, powdered, colored, long, prepared, soft, blue, hard, yellow, lower, coloured, solid, upper, pure, english, natural, blackboard, grey, fine, nitro, dry, precipitated, ordinary, green, lithographic, wet, marly, bare, pink, nodular, brown, italian, gray, loose, burnt, porous, pastel, pounded, rammed, indurated, clean, sandy, cretaceous, phosphatic, thick, liquid, coarse, weathered, rough, puddled, subjacent, greyish, siliceous, levigated, impure, glauconitic, softer, moist, dirty, massive, flinty, fractured, excess, lacustrine, friable, argillaceous, bearing, greasy, dustless, undisturbed.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective chalk:
stones, pit, mark, marl, marks, pits, flints, dust, drawing, line, talk, hills, formation, stone, farm, cliffs, stream, water, newton, beds, drawings, downs, lines, rock, rubble, board, streams, mixture, soils, plate, talks, hill, cliff, holder, wells, sketch, powder, face, harrod, lime, carts, box, boards, pastels, escarpment, quarry, glands, ground, crayons, strata, sponges, making, districts, limestone, rocks, cheese, plateau, clay, downland, sketches, sticks, floor, backs, lands, fragments, flint, head, stripe, pebbles, soil, down, ftone, mill, mud, waggons, out, cart, bed, bluff, plugs, egg, brood, bank, eggs, preparations, quarries, mine, spring, tracks, color, pinnacle, marls, waters, diagram, turnpike.

Consonant match to chalk:
check, choke, chuck, cheque, cheek, chick, chock, choak, chook, czech, chok, chek, chack.

Words that sound like chalk:
chalk, chock, chok, choc, chauk, chowk, check, chick, cheek, choke, chuck, cheque, chook, czech, chek, chik, chique, choak, chuk, chec, chack, chike, cec, chuc, cik, chac, chog, cek, cheikh, cheik, tchick, chaque, shock, jock, jacques, schock, jok, joc, shok, shoc, schoch, schok, shaak, joch, cha, chug, chocked, chocs, chocker, chaka, tchotchke, chocks, chag, chark, chirk, chocho, schalk, ceg, chc, chk, chotchke, chaki, chch, jauk, charc, eoc, eok, jack, cock, jake, chic, hock, caulk, cok, coc, jac, hoc, jacque, coch, jacke, gick, geck, chak, hoch, hocke, jaque, jaq, gik, haack, j.c, a-ok, haak, jec, haake, jech, giac, choque, g.c, cacc, jacc.