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Definitions for Chalk

[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.
[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.
[9] (of paint) to powder from weathering.
[10] of, made of, or drawn with chalk.
[11] chalk up , to score or earn: They chalked up two runs in the first inning. to charge or ascribe to: It was a poor performance, but may be chalked up to lack of practice.
[12] a soft fine-grained white sedimentary rock consisting of nearly pure calcium carbonate, containing minute fossil fragments of marine organisms, usually without a cementing material
[13] a piece of chalk or a substance like chalk, often coloured, used for writing and drawing on a blackboard
[14] a line, mark, etc made with chalk
[15] billiards snooker a small cube of prepared chalk or similar substance for rubbing the tip of a cue
[16] British a score, tally, or record
[17] as alike as chalk and cheese or as different as chalk and cheese informal totally different in essentials
[18] by a long chalk British informal by far
[19] can't tell chalk from cheese or doesn't know chalk from cheese to be unable to judge or appreciate important differences
[20] not by a long chalk British informal by no means; not possibly
[21] (modifier) made of chalk
[22] to draw or mark (something) with chalk
[23] (tr) to mark, rub, or whiten with or as if with chalk
[24] (intr) (of paint) to become chalky; powder
[25] (tr) to spread chalk on (land) as a fertilizer

Words related to Chalk

cream, buttermilk, half-and-half, choice, pick, darling, idol, impress, seal, delineate, portray, depict, chart, paint, bleach, compose, rewrite, create, scrawl, sign

Words nearby Chalk

chaliapin, chalice, chaliced, chalicosis, chalicothere, chalk, chalk and talk, chalk line, chalk out, chalk stripe, chalk talk

Origin of Chalk

before 900; Middle English chalke, Old English cealc < Latin calc- (stem of calx ) lime

Other words from Chalk

chalk·like , adjective
un·chalked , adjective

Word origin for Chalk

Old English cealc, from Latin calx limestone, from Greek khalix pebble

Synonyms for Chalk

buttermilk, cream, half-and-half, condensed, evaporated, formula, goat, homogenized, pasteurized, powdered, raw, skim, whole, laiche, low fat, moo juice, two-percent