Slate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A piece of such stone, usually cut into a rectangular shape, used as a tile for flooring, roofing, etc.; (uncountable) such tiles collectively, or the material from which they are made.

   “Some of the minor Welsh 2 ft. gauge railways, we hear from Mr. N. F. G. Dalston, are enjoying a miniature boom owing to the demand for slate for the repair of damaged roofs.”

2. isim A piece of other material used as a roofing tile.
3. isim A generally rectangular piece, originally of certain types of stone and now of other materials, often in a frame, used for writing on with a thin rod of the same or another stone (a slate pencil) or with chalk; a small chalkboard.

   “He wrote all down one side of the slate and all up the other, and then remarked--"As there's no time to finish that, The time has come to have our chat."”

4. isim Synonym of tablet computer (“a hand-held portable computer in the form of a tablet with a touch screen interface”).

   “Hearing Steve Ballmer and others talk about the availability of Windows 8 on slates, laptops, netbooks, notebooks, and screens from 7 to 70 inches might lead us to believe that Microsoft is attempting to gain market share solely through […]”

5. isim A sequentially numbered session of recording a film.
6. isim Information about a film recording which is inserted at the start of the recording, or printed on a videotape label etc.
7. isim A record, for example, of money owed.

   “Put it on my slate—I’ll pay you next week.”

8. isim A range of things; also, a schedule.

   “The Chairman James Kaplan tended to his busy slate of record and film projects, while Mia, too, actively sought movie work, somewhat to her husband's chagrin.”

9. isim A collection of films released during a certain period, either from one studio or from a certain film industry (such as Hollywood) as a whole.

   “Like many independents that have established a strong if narrow niche, Central Park says it prospers when "A" titles are in short supply, but Pascuzzi much prefers a crowded slate because of trickle-down economics.”

10. isim A group or list of candidates for appointment or election to an office; also, a group of candidates or electors with affiliated political views.

    “Ice is one of a slate of young, idealistic candidates for Move Forward who have joined mainstream politics in the hope that this election allows Thailand to break the cycle of military coups […]”

11. isim A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.

    “The Penrhyn slate quarry possibly dates back to the sixteenth century, as it appears that in 1580 Sion Tudor asked the Bishop of Bangor for a shipload of slate.”

12. isim The bluish-grey colour of most slate (etymology 1, noun sense 4).
13. sıfat Having the bluish-grey colour of slate (noun etymology 1, noun sense 4).
14. fiil To cover (a building, or part of a building such as a floor or roof) with slates (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1).

    “The old church ledgers show that the roof was slated in 1775.”

15. fiil To appoint or designate (someone or something); also, to nominate or propose (someone or something); specifically (politics), to nominate or propose (a candidate) for an office.
16. fiil To expect (something) with a (strong) degree of certainty; to anticipate, to predict.

    “The next version of our software is slated to be the best release ever.”

17. fiil To plan or schedule (something).

    “The election was slated for November 2nd.”

18. fiil To provide synchronization information about (a scene, take, etc., of a film recording) using a slate (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.3.1).

    “Why You Want to Slate your Shots”

19. fiil To scrape (an animal hide) with a slater (“blade originally made of slate”) to remove hairs.
20. fiil To cover a building, or part of a building with slates (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1).
21. fiil To provide a film recording with synchronization information, especially using a slate (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.3.1).
22. fiil To scold (someone) harshly; to chastise, to excoriate, to lambaste.
23. fiil To criticize or critique (an author or a work) harshly; to castigate.

    “The play was slated by the critics.”

24. fiil To treat (an enemy) harshly.

    “Now we shall get "slated," I thought, if there is any one there: a few good shots might have picked off every one on deck.”

25. fiil To beat or thrash (someone) harshly.

    “"Does John Barker live here?" asks Thurnall, putting his head in cautiously for fear of drunken Irishmen, who might be seized with the national impulse to "slate" him.”

26. fiil To knock the hat of (someone) forward over their eyes as a joke.
27. isim Synonym of slating (“a harsh criticism”).

    “[Thomas] Carlyle's savage "slate" of him [Frederick Marryat] is unjust to a degree which can only be palliated by the fact that it was founded on a hasty reading of his books in the evil days after the loss of the manuscript of the French Revolution.”

28. fiil To set (one or more dogs) on a person or animal; to sic.
29. fiil To set one or more dogs on (a person or animal).
30. isim A dirty or slovenly person.

    “Had aff [hold off], quoth ſhe, ye filthy Slate, / Ye ſtink o' Leeks, O figh!”