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noun
1.
a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
2.
a prepared piece of chalk or chalklike substance for marking, as a blackboard crayon.
3.
a mark made with chalk.
4.
a score or tally.
verb (used with object)
5.
to mark or write with chalk.
6.
to rub over or whiten with chalk.
7.
to treat or mix with chalk: to chalk a billiard cue.
8.
to make pale; blanch: Terror chalked her face.
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Chalk up
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
verb (used without object)
9.
(of paint) to powder from weathering.
adjective
Verb phrase10.
of, made of, or drawn with chalk.
11.
chalk up,
a.
to score or earn: They chalked up two runs in the first inning.
b.
to charge or ascribe to: It was a poor performance, but may be chalked up to lack of practice.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English chalke, Old English cealc < Latin calc- (stem of calx) lime
before 900; Middle English chalke, Old English cealc < Latin calc- (stem of calx) lime
Related forms
chalk·like, adjective
un·chalked, adjective
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World English Dictionary
| chalk up | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to score or register (something): we chalked up 100 in the game |
| 2. | to credit (money) to an account etc (esp in the phrase chalk it up) |
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Word Origin & History
chalk
O.E. cealc, a W.Gmc. borrowing from L. calx (2) "limestone, lime (crushed limestone), small stone," from Gk. khalix "small pebble," which many connect to a PIE root for "split, break up." In most Germanic languages still with the "limestone" sense, but in English transferred to the opaque, white, soft
EXPANDlimestone found abundantly in the south of the island.
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Science Dictionary
chalk  (chôk) Pronunciation Key
A soft, white, gray, or yellow limestone consisting mainly of calcium carbonate and formed primarily from the accumulation of fossil microorganisms such as foraminifera and calcareous algae. Chalk is used in making lime, cement, and fertilizers, and as a whitening pigment in ceramics, paints, and cosmetics. The chalk used in classrooms is usually artificial. |
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Idioms & Phrases
chalk up
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Score or earn, as in She chalked up enough points to be seeded first in the tournament. This term alludes to recording accounts (and later, scores) in chalk on a slate. [c. 1700]
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Credit or ascribe, as They chalked their success up to experience. [First half of 1900s]
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