Slatelike

Until there is a small slatelike device that can capture ink like the Tablet PC, I will probably never feel that it's suitable for the kinds of things my Mokeskines are. posted by dave at 11:20 PM ❋ Dave Gray (2005)

When he woke from the dream there was a red line on the eastern horizon; the sun glowed for a moment and then passed above the slatelike clouds, which reddened for a little while but did not allow the sunlight through. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1997)

They scratched this on a slab of slatelike rock, with a sharp iron awl; and, reckoning the present day as about October first, agreed that every waking-time they would cross off one square. ❋ George Allan England (1906)

The glowing and transparent blue of twilight had long been covered by the opaque and slatelike blue of night, when he handed her into the lamp-lit interior of her home. ❋ Unknown (1905)

They'll give consumers looking for touch-screen Web devices all sorts of new options, from cheap iPad knockoffs running Google's Android software to slatelike Windows 7 ❋ Unknown (2011)

Other people have been waiting for a reasonably priced, slatelike device that's a full computer, with the ability to plug in external devices, directly load files, choose core applications and otherwise be customized. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Apple may sell 3 million of its slatelike device in its first year, Sacconaghi said. ❋ Connie Guglielmo (2010)