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词汇 chalk
释义 chalk
noun
uk /tʃɔːk/ us /tʃɑːk/

chalknoun (ROCK)


[ U ]
a type of soft white rock白垩
 
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Geology: types of rock
agglomerate
arenaceous
arenite
asthenosphere
asthenospheric
emery
flinty
gneiss
haematite
indurated
intrusive
lahar
lodestone
magma
marl
marmoreal
obsidian
sandstone
schist
shale

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Publishing: paper & stationery

chalknoun (FOR DRAWING)


[ C or U ]
a stick of this rock or a similar substance used for writing or drawing: 粉笔
He picked up a piece of chalk and wrote the answer on the blackboard.他拿起一支粉笔,在黑板上写下了答案。
coloured chalks彩色粉笔
 
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Painting & drawing materials
airbrush
blank canvas
brush
canvas
drawing board
easel
glitter
mannikin
oil
paint
paintbrush
palette
palette knife
pencil
poster colour
spray paint
stencil
template
watercolour
woodblock

Related words


chalky
chalkiness

Idiom


be like chalk and cheese
chalk
verb[ I or T ]
uk /tʃɔːk/ us /tʃɑːk/
to write something with a piece of chalk用粉笔书写
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Writing & typing
agraphia
asemic
bang
bang something out
bash something out
borrow
chart
dot
draw
keyboard
orthography
put someone down for something
put something/someone down
re-register
re-registration
readability
scrawl
semiotics
speller
transcribe

Phrasal verb


chalk something up

chalk | American Dictionary


chalk
noun[ C/U ]
us/tʃɔk/
a type of soft, white rock, or a similar substance, esp. in the shape of a stick and sometimes colored, used for writing or drawing

Examples of chalk


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Already they are chalking up an impressive record, and success has been achieved by using those assets peculiar to them.
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Then he is moved to the loading points where he is employed chalking numbers on the filled wagons.
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With later sittings, it is more likely that we should have chalked up about 75 hours by now.
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If someone sticks a bill on a tree, at the crossroads, on a telegraph post, or chalks on the highway, good luck to him.
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Do not interfere with those who have no other means, of advertising but chalking, and no means of expressing themselves through a newspaper.
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You cannot stop people from saying or writing offensive things by preventing them from chalking.
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Secondly, sooner or later the debts "chalked up" have to be paid off either in gold or in exports.
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At a time of slack demand, industry is still chalking up some impressive achievements.
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Let us pay credit to the large achievements they have chalked up.
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In a great display he has taken arguments given in 1947 and chalked them off in 1949, and vice versa.
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There are few places in which there are by-laws against chalking.
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He stated that chalking of the description to which he referred was a danger to traffic.
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I think that we can begin this debate by chalking up another accurate prediction.
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In the election in the south in 1978, chalked on the pavement was the figure 78.
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Their profits from the sale of oil are inevitably chalked up on one slate or another.
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Collocations withchalk


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chalk cliff
A chalk cliff face at the back of the cove slows further erosion.
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chalk line
Where possible, a chalkline should be drawn on the floor indicating the required 4 ft.
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chalk mark
I have heard of one ease of a house occupied by three families, and the only division was a chalkmark on the floor.
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