Definizione monolingua

chalk

chalk (third-person singular simple present chalks, present participle chalking, simple past and past participle chalked)

1. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiards cue
2. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
3. To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
4. (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.

chalk (countable and uncountable; plural chalks)

1. (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone.
2. (countable) A piece of chalk, or, more often, processed compressed chalk, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.
3. Tailors chalk.
4. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this redundant sense?) (uncountable, climbing) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing.
5. (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers
6. (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win
   • 1982 March 22, Phil Musick, “And the pick here is - Georgetown over Houston”, page 13:

     OK, lets get rid of the chalk players right away. The chalk likes North Carolina. Dean Smith has taken Carolina to the Final Four six times.

   • 1995 April 6, “Notes on a Scorecard”, page C3:

     Excuse us for sticking with the chalk, but the predicted winners are Afternoon Deelites in the Derby, Oliver McCall over Larry Holmes, Nick Faldo in the Masters, and Al Unser Jr. in the Grand Prix.

   • 2008 March 24, Jason Bauman, “Non-news of the week: Obama picks North Carolina”, Aurora, Illinois:

     Instead, he played the chalk and selected the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament.

Definizione dizionario chalk

	creta
	a soft, white, powdery limestone

	gesso
	a soft, white, powdery limestone
	A soft, pure, earthy, fine-textured, usually white to light gray or buff limestone of marine origin, consisting almost wholly (90-99%) of calcite, formed mainly by shallow-water accumulation of calcareous tests of floating microorganisms (chiefly foraminifers) and of comminuted remains of calcareous algae (such as cocoliths and rhabdoliths), set in a structureless matrix of very finely crystalline calcite. The rock is porous, somewhat friable, and only slightly coherent. It may include the remains of bottom-dwelling forms (e.g. ammonites, echinoderms, and pelecypods), and nodules of chert and pyrite. The best known and most widespread chalks are of Cretaceous age, such as those exposed in cliffs on both sides of the English Channel.

	gessetto
	a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard

calcare

calcare fine

cretàceo

Altri significati:

(countable) A piece of chalk, or, more often, processed compressed chalk, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.

To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiards cue

(US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win

To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.

(uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone.

Tailor's chalk.

(US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers

(figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.

... prevent from falling when climbing

To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.

(uncountable, climbing) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing.