slate1 nounslate2 verb
slateslate1 /sleɪt/ noun 
Entry menuMENU FOR slateslate1 rock2 on a roof3 slate blue/grey4 politics5 for writing on6 put something on the slate
Word OriginWORD ORIGINslate1
ExamplesOrigin:
1300-1400 Old French esclat ‘thin piece split off’, from esclater ‘to burst, splinter’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Thesaurus- A third candidate, radio talk show host Alan Keyes, filed a partial slate.
- Best Director nominees usually parallel the Best Picture slate with one exception.
- In a spirit of community service, books and slates appeared.
- Many academics really do believe that all of us are now beginning once again with a clean slate.
- The falls of the flowers are a delicate yellowish green veined with slate blue.
Longman Language Activatorto buy something and pay for it later► get/buy something on credit
Collocations to buy something and pay for it later, usually by making small regular payments: · Most people have to make major purchases on credit.· In 2001, 56% of new cars were bought on credit.
► put something on the slate to receive goods or services, especially in small shops or places where you know the owner, and agree to pay for them at a later time: · Can I put it on the slate, and I'll pay at the end of the week?
WORD SETS► Constructionadobe, nounasphalt, nounbatten, nounbeam, nounblueprint, nounboard, nounboom, nounbreeze-block, nounbrick, nounbricklayer, nounbrickwork, nounbucket, nounbuilder, nounbuilding contractor, nounbuilding site, nounbulldoze, verbbulldozer, nounbuttress, nouncaisson, nouncantilever, nouncastellated, adjectivecavity wall, nouncement, nouncement, verbconcrete, adjectiveconcrete, nounconcrete, verbconduit, nounconstruct, verbcrane, nouncrosspiece, noundaub, noundigger, noundowel, noundrain, noundrainage, noundraughtsman, noundry-stone wall, noundry wall, nounduckboards, noundustsheet, nounembankment, nounerect, verberection, nounfence, verbfencing, nounfiberboard, nounfibreboard, nounfloor plan, nounfoundation, noungantry, noungatepost, noungirder, noungreenfield site, nounhalf-timbered, adjectivehard hat, nounhod, nounhousing association, nounhousing project, nounjackhammer, nounjib, nounjoist, nounkeystone, nounlath, nounleading, nounmansard, nounmortar, nounpanelling, nounpanel pin, nounpave, verbpavement, nounpebbledash, nounpier, nounpile driver, nounplank, nounplanking, nounplaster, nounplaster, verbplasterboard, nounplasterer, nounplate glass, nounpoint, verbPortakabin, nounprime, verbprimer, nounproperty developer, nounputty, nounquantity surveyor, nounrebuild, verbreconstruct, verbreconstruction, nounrefurbish, verbreinforced concrete, nounrendering, nounrenovate, verbrevetment, nounroof, nounroof, verbroofing, nounrooftop, nounrubble, nounsand, verbsandstone, nounsaw, verbscaffold, nounscaffolding, nounshovel, nounsite, nounskip, nounslab, nounslate, nounspan, verbstarter home, nounsteam shovel, nounstilt, nounstucco, nounsurface, verbsuspension bridge, nounthatch, nounthatched, adjectivetile, nountile, verbtiling, nountimber, nountopcoat, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a slate roof
Phrases (=covered with thin pieces of a grey rock)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► blank· Start with a blank slate in the new year.
► clean· The bambina hardly knows me, let's give her, too, a start on a clean slate.· Many academics really do believe that all of us are now beginning once again with a clean slate.· The new-born child is virtually a clean slate, to be written on by the world.· Orson Pratt, one of the originals, stressed the clean slate of history on which they wrote.· Although there is never a clean slate on which to start planning, the new start provides the necessity for such planning.· He wanted to use the subsidiary as a totally clean slate and he wanted true collaboration from the beginning.· When things go wrong Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate.· Standard variable cost is better as any inefficiencies stay in the transferring division and the receiving division starts with a clean slate.
► grey· There was another Bentley outside the grey slate Gothic place with a smart yellow Cortina snuggling up against it.· The pink brick and grey slate was catching the dying rays of the sun.· It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front.· Dark grey Hardrow slates were specified to give the scheme a natural and mature appearance from the outset.· His eyes were dull like slate, grey like slate.· A white cottage with a grey slate roof and a black chimney and a bright butter-yellow front door.· The grey slates and shales of the Silurian rock are obvious as you walk.
NOUN► quarry· It depended for its prosperity on the local slate quarries and when these ran into trouble so did the railway.· The giant slate quarries and tips of waste rock at Llanberis and Bethesda are great scars on the landscape.· We then cycled uphill to the town of Rosebush with its deserted slate quarries.· Many Lake District slate quarries are still working, but of course modern roads and vehicles make the job much less dangerous now.· Both slate quarries are open daily April to October, 100.00 a.m. -5.30 p.m.· From directly above them came a noise like an explosion in a slate quarry.
► roof· Dorchester Terrace was a row of tall red houses with sloping slate roofs.· Ranks of houses stretched away into the distance like waves breaking on a rocky shore, their slate roofs glistening.· All can be used with tile-covered roofs, or as a contrast, with slate roofs.· Porous state My slate roof is leaking through general wear.· It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front.· At the foot of the bed, a window looked out on dip-backed slate roofs.· Outside the snow was already melting on the slate roofs of the houses.· Because the sun shone so brightly the slate roof blazed like a slab of silver.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► slate blue/grey► put something on the slatePHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► clean sheet/slate► wipe the slate clean
1rock [uncountable] a dark grey rock that can easily be split into flat thin pieces2on a roof [countable] especially British English a small piece of slate or similar material that is used for covering roofs SYN tile: - By flaking off successive layers, the tree displays a bark of beige, cinnamon, lime green and slate blue.
- Immature has tail brown but throat white, with most of bill slate blue.
- Matching long-line briefs, £19, s, m, l, Also in classic navy and slate grey.
- Most remarkably it continued to function under California's midday sun, when it's slate grey shell was too hot hold!
- The falls of the flowers are a delicate yellowish green veined with slate blue.
- The sky past his profiled head had gone slate blue above a jagged paleness of snow.
- They were hard pin-points of slate blue beneath bushy eyebrows.
- Can I put it on the slate, and I'll pay at the end of the week?
- A clean sheet of blotting paper should be in the blotter. 5.
- Everton's record of failing to keep a clean sheet in 15 matches soon looked ominously likely to continue.
- He wanted to use the subsidiary as a totally clean slate and he wanted true collaboration from the beginning.
- Hereford just can't keep a clean sheet and their lowly league position reflects that.
- Orson Pratt, one of the originals, stressed the clean slate of history on which they wrote.
- The new-born child is virtually a clean slate, to be written on by the world.
- They are treading unfamiliar ground in the relegation zone and have failed to keep a clean sheet this season.
- When things go wrong Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate.
- It would be nice if we could wipe the slate clean and start over.
- First among these was the introduction of penances which, it was hoped, would wipe the slate clean.
- We must start wiping the slate clean of all such inner accounting.
There were several slates missing from the roof.3slate blue/grey a dark blue or grey colour4politics [countable] a list of people that voters can choose in an election, or who are being considered for an important job5for writing on [countable] a small black board or a flat piece of slate in a wooden frame, used for writing on in the past6put something on the slate British English old-fashioned to arrange to pay for something later, especially food or drink → a clean slate at clean1(9)slate1 nounslate2 verb
slateslate2 verb [transitive] Verb TableVERB TABLE
slate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | slate |
| he, she, it | slates | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | slated |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have slated |
| he, she, it | has slated | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had slated |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will slate |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have slated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am slating |
| he, she, it | is slating | |
| you, we, they | are slating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was slating |
| you, we, they | were slating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been slating |
| he, she, it | has been slating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been slating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be slating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been slating |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Collocations- Council deliberations on the budget are slated for June 25, 26, 27 and 30.
- Fratney had been slated to be closed and reopened as what was to be called an Exemplary Teaching Center.
- He was slated for his tactics when they went wrong, but how often did that happen?
- Old Navy flagship sites in Chicago and Seattle also are slated to open in 1998.
- The flight is slated for launching between Dec. 2 and Dec. 27 from Cape Canaveral.
- The project is slated for completion in 1999.
- They were slated as Wedding Present imitators and never escaped the suffocating connection with the band.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a slate roof
Phrases (=covered with thin pieces of a grey rock)
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► clean sheet/slate► wipe the slate clean
1British English informal to criticize a book, film etc severely, especially in a newspaper SYN slam: - A clean sheet of blotting paper should be in the blotter. 5.
- Everton's record of failing to keep a clean sheet in 15 matches soon looked ominously likely to continue.
- He wanted to use the subsidiary as a totally clean slate and he wanted true collaboration from the beginning.
- Hereford just can't keep a clean sheet and their lowly league position reflects that.
- Orson Pratt, one of the originals, stressed the clean slate of history on which they wrote.
- The new-born child is virtually a clean slate, to be written on by the world.
- They are treading unfamiliar ground in the relegation zone and have failed to keep a clean sheet this season.
- When things go wrong Many people today believe that children begin life with a clean slate.
- It would be nice if we could wipe the slate clean and start over.
- First among these was the introduction of penances which, it was hoped, would wipe the slate clean.
- We must start wiping the slate clean of all such inner accounting.
Doherty’s most recent novel has been slated by the critics.2be slated to do something/be slated for something especially American English if something is slated to happen, it is planned to happen in the future, especially at a particular time: He is slated to appear at the Cambridge Jazz Festival next year. Every house on this block is slated for demolition.GRAMMAR Slate is usually passive.