Slates

What do we mean by slates?

A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.

The bluish-grey colour of most slate.

A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools

A roofing-tile made of slate.

A record of money owed.

A list of affiliated candidates for an election.

An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.

A thin plate of any material; a flake.

A derivative or lazy way to say see-ya-later or later or lates also, some Corp stole the word and made the name into pants. dikks! Urban Dictionary

When someone addresses your negative factors to a large group of people in front of you Urban Dictionary

To slate = to cuss, to insult a slate = an insult Urban Dictionary

A hard metamorphic rock,formed from the sedimentary shale. It progresses through to phyllite, schist, and gneiss. Urban Dictionary

Snobbish emag that publishes articles as if it was an expert. Unfortunately sometimes the expertise is fake. Slate published an article on Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, that repeatedly made it obvious the author had never read Dawkins. Urban Dictionary

To be tormented cruelly,teased unfairly Urban Dictionary

A male slag. Urban Dictionary

A combination of "Stupid", "Loser", and "Tate" Urban Dictionary

A slate is a person that is a waste of space or time Urban Dictionary

1. Something you write on. 2. A surface used to snort any form of substance. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to slates:
slates, slate, states, slated, plates, slater, skates, slaves, slats, sates, elates, slatey, spates, lates, slakes, slaters, slaten, slades, slanes, slatec.

Words that rhyme with slates:
states, traits, rates, straits, gates, coordinates, nates, plates, classmates, associates, yeats, hippocrates, mates, dates, delegates, advocates, delineates, fates, subordinates, emirates, demonstrates, primates, relates, obviates, appreciates, ates, bates, deteriorates, estates, equates, dissipates, united states, fluctuates, differentiates, disseminates, indicates, dire straits, dictates, negates, greats, affiliates, allocates, anticipates, skates, creates, resonates, commemorates, corroborates, perpetuates, estimates, repudiates, infuriates, updates, inmates, accommodates, expatriates, emulates, weights, plaits, mandates, yates, cates, mitigates, translates, coates, permeates, facilitates, fetes, vertebrates, grates, predominates, approximates, pates, integrates, waits, postulates, illustrates, graduates, teammates, eights, predicates, awaits, chordates, annotates, crates, exacerbates, extrapolates, operates, radiates, evaporates, invertebrates, separates, baits, deviates, exaggerates, sates, accelerates, intimidates, necessitates, vacillates.

Adjectives that are often used to describe slates:
black, blank, green, grey, dark, blue, clean, small, welsh, red, metamorphic, calcareous, thin, gray, micaceous, siliceous, purple, southern, crystalline, devonian, carbonaceous, wooden, cambrian, united, hard, soft, primary, greenish, chloritic, broken, electoral, auriferous, roofing, thick, rival, separate, true, argillaceous, ordovician, lithographic, heavy, sandy, western, bearing, older, ordinary, graphitic, wet, ferruginous, independent, magic, fossiliferous, loose, fine, phyllitic, cleaved, grained, countess, coloured, democratic, variegated, rough, northern, spotted, adjacent, arab, respective, colored, vertical, cement, closed.

Consonant match to slates:
slots, slats, slits, slights, sleets, sleights, sluts, slutz.

Words that sound like slates:
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