Synonym: slating, ticket. Similar words: translate, legislator, legislation, legislative, translation, legislature, late, later. Meaning: [sleɪt] n. 1. (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate 2. thin layers of rock used for roofing 3. a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers 4. a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices. v. 1. designate or schedule 2. enter on a list or slate for an election 3. cover with slate.
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61) The sky past his profiled head had gone slate blue above a jagged paleness of snow.
62) A selection of hard surfaces should be provided in the form of flat rocks or slate.
63) Three days later the Largemouth pair spawned, over a flat slate at the back corner.
64) It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front.
65) The mill still survives and is constructed of stone, with a slate tiled roof.
66) At the foot of the bed, a window looked out on dip-backed slate roofs.
67) Both slate quarries are open daily April to October, 100.00 a.m. -5.30 p.m.
68) The river birch trees spread their silvery shade over the slate walkways.
69) The houses are in a conservation area and have to be covered with slate roofing tiles.
70) Standard variable cost is better as any inefficiencies stay in the transferring division and the receiving division starts with a clean slate.
71) They were hard pin-points of slate blue beneath bushy eyebrows.
72) Even so, he was defeated in the City parliamentary election of 1734 and failed to make the opposition slate in 1740-1.
73) His replacement travelled for four days by train for half a day's climbing on the slate.
74) Decor is slate rocks, bogwood, pebbles, sewer pipe and plant pots.
75) Accusations of ballot-box stuffing at the neighborhood-run election were made about the meeting which nominated the new slate.
76) In the games room, supported by slate and iron pillars, a tracery of iron girders held the low glass ceiling.
77) They were the homes of lead miners or slate workers in the last century.
78) Boats have to negotiate a narrow winding channel between high slate walls to reach it.
79) The minute particles in the rock have been flattened with the result that the slate splits easily into thin sheets.
80) Dirty grey clouds tumbled across the sky above the slate roof, now the only thing that shone, glazed with rain.
81) In addition to winning the presidency Carey also swept into office with him every member of his reformist slate of candidates.
82) Working without advisers and with a poor slate of generals, Lincoln was able to reunite the country and end slavery.
83) He routinely did his Easter duty, kept the Commandments, but often slept through the Sunday slate of masses.
84) Every so often, some one would buck the trend: in 1982 Mr Kinnock was dropped from the slate, but kept his place.
85) It is a good sign to have married men, with kids, on the slate.
86) A.. Generally, a slate roof will last for 100 years without, it is hoped,[http://sentencedict.com/slate.html] leaking.
87) Here are scattered numerous slate boulders which have been carried by glacier action and dumped on a limestone shelf.
88) We then cycled uphill to the town of Rosebush with its deserted slate quarries.
89) Although there is never a clean slate on which to start planning, the new start provides the necessity for such planning.
90) Porous state My slate roof is leaking through general wear.
More similar words: translate, legislator, legislation, legislative, translation, legislature, late, later, plate, lately, latent, relate, isolate, related, emulate, violate, isolated, percolate, regulate, calculate, chocolate, insulated, stimulate, coagulate, speculate, manipulate, articulate, immaculate, contemplate, congratulate.