chalky

Definition of chalky in English English dictionary: Resembling chalk in any way; Consisting of or containing chalk; {a} containing or like chalk, white; Something that is chalky is a pale dull colour or has a powdery texture. Her face became a chalky white. similar to chalk or containing chalk; Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste; having the color of chalk; "she turned chalky white"; composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk; {s} of chalk, resembling chalk; having the color of chalk; "she turned chalky white; Something that is chalky contains chalk or is covered with chalk. The chalky soil around Saumur produces the famous Anjou wines
chalk: To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk
chalk: Tailor's chalk
chalk: To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard
chalk: The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win
chalk: A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers
chalk: A piece of chalk, or, more often, processed compressed chalk, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard
chalk: {n} carbonic acid and lime, or carbonate of lime, a neutral salt, powerfully absorbent
chalk: {v} to mark or manure with chalk, to point out
chalkiness: {n} a state of being chalky
chalk: A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone
chalk: emphasis If you say that two people or things are like chalk and cheese, you are emphasizing that they are completely different from each other. The two places, he insists, are as different as chalk and cheese We are very aware of our differences, we accept that we are chalk and cheese. Soft, fine-grained, easily pulverized, white-to-grayish variety of limestone, composed of the shells of minute marine organisms. The purest varieties contain up to 99% calcium carbonate in the form of the mineral calcite. Extensive deposits occur in western Europe south of Sweden and in England, notably in the chalk cliffs of Dover along the English Channel. Other extensive deposits occur in the U.S. from South Dakota to Texas and eastward to Alabama. Chalk is used for making lime and portland cement and as a soil additive. Finely ground and purified chalk is known as whiting and is used as a filler, extender, or pigment in a wide variety of materials, including ceramics, putty, cosmetics, crayons, plastics, rubber, paper, paints, and linoleum. The chalk commonly used in classrooms is a manufactured substance rather than natural chalk
chalk: a piece of chalk (or similar substance) used for writing on blackboards or other surfaces
chalk: A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing
chalk: Calcium carbonate, either natural or artificially prepared, finely ground to make the white substance to prepare canvas for painting called gesso It may be pressed into sticks and used in its white form, or mixed with colored pigments to make pastels
chalk: A soft, white, powdery limestone
chalk: Form of limestone This sedimentary rock is composed of the shells and skeletons of marine microorganisms
chalk: To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiards cue
chalk: Chiefly composed of calcium carbonate, chalk was used for a variety of purposes in manuscript production: as a pounce when preparing the parchment surface; as a component of gesso or another ground; as a white pigment; as an alkaline component in pigments (serving to modify the colour of certain organic pigments, such as folium, and to lighten and increase the opacity of others); or as a drawing medium
chalk: A powdery residue on the surface of a material
chalk: write, draw, or trace with chalk
chalk: n white drying agent used to keep a climbers hands dry Sometimes called "white courage" 2 (vb ) to apply chalk to hands
chalk: To manure with chalk, as land
chalk: White or other color chalk marks used by mills for some form of identification marking defects for repair
chalk: To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field
chalk: Designated troops, equipment, and/or cargo that constitute a complete aircraft load
chalk: Calcium carbonate, either natural or artificially prepared, finely ground to make a white substance used in gesso It may be pressed in sticks and used in its white form, or mixed with colored pigments to make pastels
chalk: amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
chalk: a pure flat white with little reflectance
chalk: (n ) white drying agent used to keep a climbers hands dry Sometimes called "white courage" 2 (vb ) to apply chalk to hands
chalk: Chalk is small sticks of chalk, or a substance similar to chalk, used for writing or drawing with. somebody writing with a piece of chalk. drawing a small picture with coloured chalks
chalk: A white, powdery substance that climbers plunge their hands into when they're getting really nervous about their next move Said to help dry sweaty hands, chalking up seems to serve more as a psychological pacifier than a boost to physical proficiency
chalk: a piece of chalk (or similar substance) used for writing on blackboards or other surfaces a pure flat white with little reflectance a soft whitish calcite write, draw, or trace with chalk
chalk: If you chalk something, you draw or write it using a piece of chalk. He chalked the message on the blackboard There was a blackboard with seven names chalked on it
chalk: To rub or mark with chalk
chalk: a soft whitish calcite
chalk: Soft, white, sedimentary rock of calcium carbonate Acts as an aquifer
chalk: Pigments mixed with gum and pressed into a stick form, for use as crayons
chalk: Tailors chalk
chalk: {i} white limestone; object which is made of limestone (or something which resembles limestone) and is used for writing on blackboards or slates
chalk: Methamphetamine (speed)
chalk: A soft form of limestone that is not well cemented and thus is often powdery and brittle
chalk: I'll chalk out your path for you- i e lay it down or plan it out as a carpenter or ship-builder plans out his work with a piece of chalk I can walk a chalk as well as you I am no more drunk than you are The allusion is to the ordeal on board ship of trying men suspected of drunkenness They were required to walk along a line chalked on the deck, without deviating to the right or left The tapster is undone by chalk, i e credit The allusion is to scoring up credit on a tally with chalk This was common enough early in the nineteenth century, when milk scores, bread scores, as well as beer scores were general Chalk it up Put it to his credit As good-humoured sarcasm, Chalk it up! is tantamount to saying, “What you have done so astonishes me that I must make some more or less permanent record of it ”
chalk: To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach
chalk: {f} write or mark with chalk
chalk: Not regular children's chalk, this is specially designed to be safe for Scrapbooking and used in similar paper arts
chalk: Chalk is a type of soft white rock. You can use small pieces of it for writing or drawing with. the highest chalk cliffs in Britain Her skin was chalk white and dry-looking
chalk: Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner
chalk: Anegmirs
chalk: Pigments mixed with gum and pressed into a stick form for use as crayons Pastel is similar, but less tightly bound
chalkier: comparative of chalky
chalkiest: superlative of chalky
chalkiness: {i} quality of being dry and chalky
chalkiness: The state of being chalky
chalkiness: {i} calcareousness