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1. chalk
noun. ['ˈtʃɑːk, ˈtʃɔk'] a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces.
Synonyms
Etymology
- cealc (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
Rhymes with Chalk
- little-rock
- crosstalk
- yeosock
- squawk
- maroc
- zwack
- stalk
- walke
- walk
- valk
- talk
- sauk
- salk
- mauk
- mauck
- lauck
- kauk
- kalk
- hok
- hawke
- hawk
- hauke
- hauk
- hauck
- gawk
- faulk
- falke
- falk
- caulk
- calk
How do you pronounce chalk?
Pronounce chalk as ʧɔk.
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Sentences with chalk
1. Noun, singular or mass
Remove the pencil and mark the center of the circle with the chalk.
Quotes about chalk
1. No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2. Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..
- Stephen King, It
3. When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.
- M.E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
2. chalk
noun. ['ˈtʃɑːk, ˈtʃɔk'] a pure flat white with little reflectance.
Synonyms
Etymology
- cealc (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
3. chalk
noun. ['ˈtʃɑːk, ˈtʃɔk'] a soft whitish calcite.
Synonyms
Etymology
- cealc (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
4. chalk
noun. ['ˈtʃɑːk, ˈtʃɔk'] an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- cealc (Old English (ca. 450-1100))