Definition of slate in English:

slate

noun sleɪtsleɪt

1mass noun A fine-grained grey, green, or bluish-purple metamorphic rock easily split into smooth, flat plates.
板岩，页岩
as modifier slate quarries
a slate floor
Example sentencesExamples
- The rural landscape and simple landforms have proved a great stimulus, and many of her pieces incorporate stone, slate or limestone.
- The choices when it comes to real stone are generally traditional York stone, sandstone, limestone or slate.
- Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and limestone throughout the region.
- But also consider some other bathroom floor options, like slate or marble, or even rubber tiles.
- New surfaces are made from chemical compounds and are designed to mimic granite, limestone, marble, slate, or soapstone.
- The fashion ads also incorporate stone, rock, water and slate for a textural feeling.
- Hodge Close was one of a group of green slate quarries in the Lake District that were worked from the mid-19th century.
- By the mid-19th century there were 15 quarries working slate, flags, sandstone and limestone.
- The most handsome and timeless of materials is stone such as marble, granite, limestone, or slate.
- His study of occupational lung diseases included the pathology of workers exposed to coal, talc, slate, and kaolin.
- The most resistant rocks are quartzite and quartz-rich sandstones, and tough fine-grained rocks such as slate.
- These extrusive rocks are tilted and rest unconformably upon metamorphosed limestone, shale, and slate.
- It includes a variety of rocks, such as basalt, granite, gneiss, quartzite, slate, and schist.
- With two floors of windows, natural wood, river rock and slate, it makes a perfect backdrop for the captivating view.
- The floors are locally quarried slate, carried from the mountains on donkey back and hand-cut to fit tightly together in random patterns.
- It consists of graphitic schist and slate, psammite, pelitic schist/gneiss and augen gneiss at structurally higher levels.
- Stone is just what its name implies: quarried slate, limestone, flagstone, granite, or marble.
- The first floor accommodation is completed by a spacious family bathroom with slate floor and rich green walls.
- The smooth slate floor of the bottom level reflects the rough basalt on the pathway through a preserved grove of evergreens.
- Beyond the kitchen is the family room, which has a cast-iron fireplace and quarry slate floor.
1. 1.1 A flat plate of slate used as roofing material.
  石板，石板瓦
  a loose slate falls from the roof
  as modifier a grey slate roof
  Example sentencesExamples
  Roofing slates from the Delabole quarry have been used on several Adelaide buildings, including the Post Office, Town Hall, Museum and Adelaide University.
  The council discovered that there were loose slates on the roof which would have fallen into the street without the gutter in place.
  Timber roof supports burnt away, causing large slates to fall into the building and the front of one of the flats to bulge.
  The floor tiles, roof slates and even the pottery that the monks used were also all French as were the coins, representing the dues that the monks collected for the benefit of their Mother House.
  On the corner of the property was the coach house, still standing and with lots of charm - with a shingle roof, and wooden slates below the roof.
  A number of slates had come loose from the roof and crashed into the bushes.
  Among the demands made by the council are the painting of gable walls, plastering a brick chimney, and fixing loose slates.
  A leaking roof can lead to damage on ceilings and walls, so it is important to replace loose or cracked slates, and get damaged material on flat roofs repaired.
  They were mainly being asked to remove fallen trees or dangerous roof slates which had come loose and were a danger to the public.
  She dropped down onto the roof of the porch and caught her foot on a loose slate which crashed to the ground beneath her.
  She said she feared loose slates and masonry could fall from the roof.
  At least one criminal gang is targeting properties in Oldham and stealing items like roof slates, coping stones, flagstones and walls.
  Check that your roof isn't missing any shingles, tiles, slates or nails.
  While my friends were frightening themselves in the ghostly changing rooms, I found a stockpile of short, square roofing slates.
  It needs to be re-roofed, the slates are falling off and the building is rotting.
  He said, ‘I remember a time when there was chicken wire pinned to the eaves to stop the slates falling on the children.’
  Elterwater slate dresser Clifford Barrow drew the crowds as he sliced through stone to produce 19-inch roofing slates, used on buildings across Britain.
  Research carried out last year highlighted features such as village springs, stone roofing slates and sheep washes, which were often in a poor state of repair.
  We appear to have inherited a number of problems with roofing tiles and slates which are not always fixed with the precision and detailing required by the manufacturers (number of fixings etc).
  He grabbed the peak of the roof as he fell full against the slates.
2A flat plate of slate formerly used for writing on in schools.
（尤指旧时用于学校的有木框架的）石板写字板（或黑板）
the teacher was demonstrating, the children copying on to slates
Example sentencesExamples
- For homework, finish both sides of your slates, writing lower case E's.
- Mac went to school when they wrote on slates and so did I. Mind you, Mac's posh school probably had paper and ink.
- She gave us slates to write on, made us chant some Empire geography facts, ordered us to sit up straight and swished her cane around with aplomb.
- Pupils had the chance to try out writing on slates, and desks were set out in rows as in years gone by.
- And the headmaster had to beg businesses to pay for books, slates and pencils because the school could not supply them.
- Also on the anvil are a Braille slate, abacus for mathematics, geometry set with raised numbers and an alphabet plate to enable the visually impaired to learn to write.
- He began to write on the slate, the chalk moving up and down to form the letters of his answer.
- Visitors can take their place at desks in three period classrooms and write on slates with chalk before progressing to dip pens and use exercise books to practise ornate copperplate writing.
- Each of the boxes includes enough pencils, exercise books, slates and school bags for a class of up to 80 pupils.
- Restored and resplendent, it opens its doors to visitors with handbags instead of schoolchildren swinging schoolbags full of slates, pencils and books.
- Children from the regiment showed visitors traditional toys such as wooden dolls, slates and embroidery hoops.
- The children - all below five years - were given new uniforms, slates and shoes and sent to a nursery outside the jail.
- Grandma looked up him, took a hold of her slate and wrote.
- Each kit contains enough equipment - including paints, pens, exercise books, chalks and slates - for 80 pupils for a month.
- The youngsters sit on bare floors in two rooms, writing notes on slates as the teacher writes on a small chalkboard.
- The reverse of the gold 2,000 baht depicts in the center a Thai girl sitting and writing a script with a slate and a tray on the floor.
- She is quite pleased with her knowledge about courts when she is able to pick out the jury, twelve animals and birds who are busy writing on their slates.
- I remember writing on a slate and rubbing it off with a sponge, and learning to write using what was called a copybook.
- I studied in a village school sitting on the floor and we wrote on slates.
- The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school, in which children can try out the desks and writing slates and play games of the period.
1. 2.1British A record of a person's debit or credit (in pubs and shops formerly written on a slate)
  ‘Five quid,’ said the barman. ‘Put it on my slate,’ I suggested
  “五磅，"酒吧男招待说。“记在我账上，"我建议道。
  Example sentencesExamples
  One explanation for the extraordinary name of the pub relates to a long dead landlord who put the beer "on the slate" for thirsty road-makers when the track up the hill was metalled.
  He asked Don to let him have a drink on the slate but Don refused.
2. 2.2 A small portable computer that accepts input directly on to its screen rather than via a keyboard or mouse; a tablet computer.
  after getting our hands on one this afternoon, we found that it’s a solid, well-performing slate that’s easy on the eyes
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thanks to the swivel screen, you can either open it up and use it like a traditional laptop, swivel it up to 180 degrees for sharing or fold it back on itself, creating a touchscreen slate.
  It may be that we have to have two models, one slate, without a keyboard, and one notebook-convertible.
  Wouldn't a mobile operating system be a better fit for slates?
  They'll be hunting for a slate that can be carried around and does only what they need it to do: browse, communicate, entertain.
  The older iPad at $399 will really put the hurt on the Galaxy Tabs and Windows slates of the world.
  Photographing him holding the slate evokes the image of someone playing with an Etch-a-Sketch.
  Their forthcoming slate will have Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity as well as a multi-touch screen.
  Notebook computers and slates that let you enter data in handwriting and store it either as "digital ink" or convert it to text had a big "wow" factor.
  This year the situation gets tougher for Apple as numerous PC suppliers plan to release their slates for different customers, with different specifications and at different price-points.
  If the new rumours are correct, Apple's second-gen iPad will be released earlier than the majority of competing slates.
  Laptop computers, slates, tablets and the obligatory 'Argyll Shipwrecks' book sat open on the surrounding tables.
  I would have preferred a simple white thin slate with a screen.
  The second-generation iPad slate will address some of the issues of the original one.
  He estimated that an average slate could sell for $700, creating a downside where netbooks and laptops see their sales cannibalized.
  The retailer could sell its slate as a loss leader, but still profit by directing its tablet users to its own services and software.
  If you need to take notes in the field, then a slate or a convertible tablet may be a better choice for your company.
  There are two types of tablet computers currently available - slates with a pen for input and convertible laptops that have hinged, rotating screens that fold over a keyboard.
  The "slate" uses virtual keyboards that you poke at with a special stylus, or handwriting recognition that is hit-and-miss.
  PC makers sold 122,000 slates last year, making the category less than 1 percent of the total PC market.
  Some day, Mac users may all be using slates with the classic mechanical keyboard and mouse a thing of the past.
3mass noun, usually as modifier A bluish-grey colour.
石板色，蓝灰色
suits of slate grey
一套套蓝灰色西服。
Example sentencesExamples
- Cool colours such as slate grey, navy, sleek steel and chrome are seen as inherently male.
- He looked up at Jon, who was studying him with his slate gray eyes.
- His slate gray eyes turned a dull black, and I closed my eyes in pain.
- Ryan O'Connor leans against the edge of the stage, wearing jeans and a slate blue shirt that brings out the green in his eyes.
- The metal frames are then treated with a rust-preventative lacquer that can be infused with eight different colors, from slate gray to emerald green.
- She was now wearing a slate wrap-around shirt, and a grey coat.
- I could not see a town, not a road, only mountains, glacial valleys, a few icy blue lakes and rivers that from the air looked slate gray.
- The morning sky was cloudless, and a dark shade of slate gray, not yet dawn.
- A jacket hung over his arm, the exact color of his slate gray slacks.
- Contemporary hues of fruity sorbets, whites and soft neutrals will add zest to any wardrobe, and there are earthy slate colours, denims and shades of stone and copper to add versatility.
- His head jolted up; his slate gray eyes stared longingly into my own.
- He was in his shirt sleeves with a slate gray waistcoat and matching trousers.
- At one moment, it was slate gray, the next an inky black.
- The sky is the colour of slate grey and touching the roof tops.
- Its cousin, the stunning kokako, is slate gray with sky-blue wattles decorating a black-masked face.
- He turned around and met a pair of slate gray eyes.
- Most of the buildings were quite tall, probably four or five stories and made of slate gray stone.
- His eyes were slate gray, and his hair, cinnamon-colored and longish, hung straight down to his shoulders, tucked back now behind his ears.
- However, their true color varies among individuals from a uniform dark slate gray with little whitish mottling to a very light blue with extensive mottling.
- The bed was a twin, neatly made in the usual slate gray, along with the carpet, and the furniture.
4A list of candidates for election to a post or office, typically a group sharing a set of political views.
（尤指分享一系列政治观点的团体内）提名名单，候选人名单
candidates on the left's slate won 74 per cent of constituency votes
左翼人选获得选区74%选民的投票。
Example sentencesExamples
- With six slates and 46 candidates for the board running in the election, candidates outnumbered audience members at each debate.
- And I was very proud, frankly of South Dakota this time, because they had a terrific slate of candidates for all the offices.
- Yawar opposed the boycott call and headed a slate of Sunni candidates in the election.
- The idea is to obtain a slate of national representatives who are a ‘mirror of the nation.’
- The election for that Parliament has to be made from a complete slate of six candidates.
- Under Illinois law the Green Party had only 90 days to collect the signatures and was also required to field a slate of candidates for every office on the ballot.
- To bolster its opposition credentials, the Socialist Caucus is standing a full slate of candidates for the party executive, including party leader.
- The Greater London elections also saw a slate of socialists winning substantial votes.
- Not surprisingly, they are on the only slate, at this writing, that is not in principle, opposed to tuition hikes and differential fees.
- Have you ever written to your slate or federal senators or representatives?
- An entire slate of candidates running in last week's student union election has been disqualified for gross violations of election rules.
- That big view allows him to encompass and endorse both slates of candidates for the party's executive.
- As it is, the unions always run slates of candidates during the board's elections and hold caucus meetings before board meetings to discuss how teachers are going to vote.
- At the end of 1951 the Free Officers ran their own slate of candidates for election to the board of directors of the Officers' Club in Cairo.
- Nominating Committee members work together to prepare and present an annual slate of candidates for national office.
- When all is said and done, each political ‘boss’ emerges unscathed and with a slate of candidates to call his or her own.
- The divisions and states with more than one representative to the Council of Representatives should designate ethnic-minority slates for at least one of the positions.
- Challenges to official director slates will likely be rare, but the mere threat of them could weigh heavily on management decisions.
- We're putting together a slate of candidates to run together in the primaries next year for state legislature.
- First, for three consecutive terms the Concordia student population has elected slates of anti-capitalist representatives.
1. 4.1North American A range of something on offer.
  〈主北美〉一系列资助
  the company has revealed details of a $60m slate of film productions
  这家公司透露了一项6，000万美元的电影制作资助的细节。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ross and crew jumped in with a production slate of a dozen original films annually, a gambit that has paid off.
  He issues loans for slates of films at a studio - 5 to 15 at a time - not single flicks.
  I'd like to see a major studio take its slate down to 8 films a year… and have 6 significant moneymakers.
  Beneath these vastly newsworthy honours, however, is the same slate of police, army, foreign service, civil service and public service awards.
  Presently we have a slate of another 19 films, which are all scheduled to be produced in Bulgaria over the next three years.
  The spring show will build on this success by kicking off the trade season with an entire slate of new records for number of buyers, exhibitors, scale, and selection.
  The festival also featured a full slate of workshops and panels.
  Now in its third year, the Casa del Popolo's in-house music fest offers a slate of performers from around the world.
  HBO hasn't gone all out, but they have provided a decent slate of extra material that delves deeply into the roots of this show.
  The week after a slate of games, hats will be worn and old jerseys can be seen throughout the team complex - losers forced to dress in hostile colors against their own will.
  Be prepared to see a whole slate of films next summer filmed in 3D!
  He questions how many providers offering basically the same slate of services can exist in a market.
  The international future, then, offers up a whole slate of questions and requirements, and sets a steep agenda for preparing strategic leaders.
  The hallmark of the film festival this year was a slate of African films, heralding a mini-renaissance.
  BBC Television is investing in the biggest slate of emblematic, major projects in its history.
  The USMA Band and its ensembles can keep your toes tapping with a full slate of free public concerts and recitals throughout the year.
5A board showing the identifying details of a take in a film, held in front of the camera at the beginning and end of the take.
（置于摄影机前的）（识别一次电影拍摄镜头细节起讫的）开拍板
the electronic time-code system allowed us to shoot with or without conventional slates
Example sentencesExamples
- This color cartoon clipart picture shows a woman holding a slate for a movie set, ready to clap the bar shut; the slate has a number "2" written on it, for take two.
- The slate's most obvious purpose is the documentation it provides on what scene is being filmed, when it was filmed, what take it was, which film reel it was, etc.
- We ascend, our cameras out of film and our slates covered in a jumble of barely decipherable notes.
- The director of this film actually clapped the slate and then decided that these scenes were KEEPERS.

verb sleɪtsleɪt

[with object]

1Cover (something, especially a roof) with slates.
用石板铺盖（某物，尤指屋顶）
he was working for his father slating a new roof
a slated roof
Example sentencesExamples
- The roof will be slated and the front elevations will mostly be of natural stone, and each house has a large back garden.
- Roofs can be either tiled or slated.
- The contractor shall inspect all surfaces prepared for slating.
- The entire centre of the yard was covered and slated with a large open-ended platform at either end.
2British informal Criticize severely.
〈英，非正式〉猛烈抨击，严厉批评
his work was slated by the critics
他的作品受到评论家的苛责。
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘The London premiere was slated by the critics for being propaganda, and it hasn't been performed since, but it has value,’ Osborne says.
- Browne slates the Catholic Church authorities for their failures.
- The design plans have been slated and the size and scale of the entire undertaking must be totally rethought.
- The bill was slated as a death sentence for several organisations working in the country.
- British car journalists slated the car, ‘but why?’
- They both slated the referee, who, they claimed, was wrong to allow a goal scored by Dublin.
- He says New Zealand is a country trying to promote itself as a leading golf destination, so the last thing the sport needs is its number one professional slating a leading course.
- Although I admit to being one of those who'll slate a referee at a match, I also understand the enormous task they face once the whistle is blown.
- But the comedian, whose previews were unanimously slated by the critics last week, informed festival organisers that the show could not go on, for the time being at least.
- Last December it was slated in a highly critical report released by the powerful Commons Treasury Select Committee.
Synonyms
criticize harshly, attack, pillory, lambaste, condemn, flay, savage, shoot down, revile, vilify
informal pan, knock, tear/pull/take to pieces, take/pull apart, crucify, hammer, slam, do a hatchet job on, bash, give something a battering, roast, skewer, maul, throw brickbats at
British informal rubbish, slag off, monster
North American informal trash, pummel
Australian/New Zealand informal bag
archaic slash
rare excoriate
3North American Schedule; plan.
London shows are slated for late June
伦敦的演出定于6月下旬。
with infinitive construction is slated to begin late next year
Example sentencesExamples
- The plan, slated for the go-ahead by the city, has been put on hold by the province.
- Already more than half the population is covered by this Programme and full coverage is slated for 2005.
- The three-year experimental program is slated to end this summer, and because of the state's tight budget situation, may not be renewed.
- The plan is slated to take effect for 2007 models.
- At least four plays are slated to open this week…
- The day's schedule had us slated for just before lunch.
- However, they expect some answers from the voluntary, two-year, nationwide monitoring program, which is slated to begin later this year.
- The trade union federation is demanding that a list of 30 companies slated for closure be covered by a severance agreement.
- In the meantime, Edmund is slated to take his father's estate.
- Both games are slated to start at 8: 00 p.m. in the Physical Activities Centre.
- Kelly's court appearance is slated for Jan. 30.
- I arrived early enough to read the papers in time for the first interview, which was slated for recording at eleven.
- The show is slated to be open sometime in November or December and will be in Mumbai as well as in Delhi, ‘he said.’
- As to settlement assets, there are 2,586 homes slated for evacuation, covering approximately 20 per cent of the land in Gaza.
- The city says the street was slated for repairs before the governor's appearance was scheduled.
- He said more Jacksonville stores are slated for renovations, but could not confirm which ones.…
- The initial native program was slated to last only two years, but Roger and staff have made a long-term commitment to keep the areas intact.
- Why would it appear on the cover of an edition slated for the UK?
- Not only that, her new boyfriend, one of the newspapermen from the train, seems to be enamored of the mysterious Sophia and is slated to cover the final event.
- At press time, renovation work was slated to start on Nov.18, but McDonough expected some permitting delays.
Synonyms
schedule, set, set up, arrange, organize, sort out, fix, fix up, fix a time for, time, book, line up, slot in, prearrange, bill, programme, plan
1. 3.1 Nominate (someone) as a candidate for an office or post.
  〈主北美〉提（名），将（某人）定为人选
  I understand that I am being slated for promotion
  我知道我正被定为晋升的人选。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Well, last night I got an email saying that my application is selected and I'm slated to go look on a Cornell team for the ivory-billed woodpecker in early December.
  Neither is Powell slated to be the Attorney General, where he may choose the civil rights czar, who carves the policy groove on race in the Justice Department.
  The Nominations Committee has slated candidates for the position of Chair-elect and Secretary.
  I'm presently slated to moderate fourteen (!) panels, most of them about comic book history, and they're all goodies.
  The Democrats and Republicans slated their legislative candidates at the end of September or in early October, with the election scheduled for November 7.
  I am slated to open an office in a prestigious location with a co-worker coming up in September.
  That is important - he was twice slated for disqualification during the year (possibly meaning a life ban).
  He is slated to lead depressed Argentina until elections for a new president in March.
  That officer was slated to become the squadron leader before he died.
  The criticism the Municipal Reform Club received from Republican circles for not endorsing Thomas and for slating a candidate to oppose Bash seemed to increase Thomas' confidence.
4Identify (a take in a film) using a slate.
用镜头起讫板识别（镜头）
the assistant cameraman is about to slate the scene
Example sentencesExamples
- When one camera is slated, someone puts their hand over the lens of the other camera to block the view of the other camera's slate.
- Slate every shot, even if you are going direct into the camera.
- They discuss how to proceed, conduct run-throughs, slate shots, film the filming; and as they do so, you get to know these young people.

Derivatives

slaty

adjective ˈsleɪtiˈsleɪdi

Plumage color of homozygous birds varies from slaty blue to beige depending on the relative abundance of eumelanin and pheomelanin in the feathers.
Example sentencesExamples
- The slaty cleavage precludes recovery of any fossils.
- Beyond the strip of level ground there is a ‘short steep preparatory slope’ (a one-in-three incline, as we later learn), slaty and with only the sparsest vegetation.
- Others have ‘purple ‘flowers, ranging from deep, slaty purple to pinkish purple; some with lines or spots of a darker color.’
- In the slaty light of one such foggy dawn, a long-legged Namib beetle (genus Stenocara) stands on a small ridge of sand.

Origin

Middle English sclate, sklate, shortening of Old French esclate, feminine synonymous with esclat 'piece broken off' (see slat).

This is from the Old French esclat ‘a piece broken off’. Slat (Late Middle English) is a variant which meant ‘roofing slate’ until it developed the current sense in the mid 18th century. Schoolchildren formerly used flat pieces of slate for writing on in chalk, and shops and bars used the same materials for keeping a record of what a customer owed. This is the origin of the expression on the slate, ‘to be paid for later, on credit’. The related French esclice ‘splinter’ gives us slice (Middle English) and their common Germanic source also gives us slit (Old English). In the sense ‘to criticize’, dating from the mid 19th century, slate is probably a different word. It might derive from the slightly earlier Irish sense ‘to beat, beat up’ and be related to a Scots use of slate meaning ‘to set a dog on’, which is from Old Norse.

Rhymes

abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight

Definition of slate in US English:

slate

nounsleɪtslāt

1A fine-grained gray, green, or bluish metamorphic rock easily split into smooth, flat pieces.
板岩，页岩
Example sentencesExamples
- His study of occupational lung diseases included the pathology of workers exposed to coal, talc, slate, and kaolin.
- Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and limestone throughout the region.
- The first floor accommodation is completed by a spacious family bathroom with slate floor and rich green walls.
- The choices when it comes to real stone are generally traditional York stone, sandstone, limestone or slate.
- But also consider some other bathroom floor options, like slate or marble, or even rubber tiles.
- The most handsome and timeless of materials is stone such as marble, granite, limestone, or slate.
- The smooth slate floor of the bottom level reflects the rough basalt on the pathway through a preserved grove of evergreens.
- The most resistant rocks are quartzite and quartz-rich sandstones, and tough fine-grained rocks such as slate.
- The floors are locally quarried slate, carried from the mountains on donkey back and hand-cut to fit tightly together in random patterns.
- Stone is just what its name implies: quarried slate, limestone, flagstone, granite, or marble.
- The fashion ads also incorporate stone, rock, water and slate for a textural feeling.
- It includes a variety of rocks, such as basalt, granite, gneiss, quartzite, slate, and schist.
- It consists of graphitic schist and slate, psammite, pelitic schist/gneiss and augen gneiss at structurally higher levels.
- By the mid-19th century there were 15 quarries working slate, flags, sandstone and limestone.
- These extrusive rocks are tilted and rest unconformably upon metamorphosed limestone, shale, and slate.
- Hodge Close was one of a group of green slate quarries in the Lake District that were worked from the mid-19th century.
- With two floors of windows, natural wood, river rock and slate, it makes a perfect backdrop for the captivating view.
- The rural landscape and simple landforms have proved a great stimulus, and many of her pieces incorporate stone, slate or limestone.
- Beyond the kitchen is the family room, which has a cast-iron fireplace and quarry slate floor.
- New surfaces are made from chemical compounds and are designed to mimic granite, limestone, marble, slate, or soapstone.
1. 1.1 A flat piece of slate used as roofing material.
  石板，石板瓦
  Example sentencesExamples
  Among the demands made by the council are the painting of gable walls, plastering a brick chimney, and fixing loose slates.
  It needs to be re-roofed, the slates are falling off and the building is rotting.
  He grabbed the peak of the roof as he fell full against the slates.
  She dropped down onto the roof of the porch and caught her foot on a loose slate which crashed to the ground beneath her.
  Check that your roof isn't missing any shingles, tiles, slates or nails.
  A leaking roof can lead to damage on ceilings and walls, so it is important to replace loose or cracked slates, and get damaged material on flat roofs repaired.
  The council discovered that there were loose slates on the roof which would have fallen into the street without the gutter in place.
  The floor tiles, roof slates and even the pottery that the monks used were also all French as were the coins, representing the dues that the monks collected for the benefit of their Mother House.
  He said, ‘I remember a time when there was chicken wire pinned to the eaves to stop the slates falling on the children.’
  Roofing slates from the Delabole quarry have been used on several Adelaide buildings, including the Post Office, Town Hall, Museum and Adelaide University.
  They were mainly being asked to remove fallen trees or dangerous roof slates which had come loose and were a danger to the public.
  We appear to have inherited a number of problems with roofing tiles and slates which are not always fixed with the precision and detailing required by the manufacturers (number of fixings etc).
  Timber roof supports burnt away, causing large slates to fall into the building and the front of one of the flats to bulge.
  While my friends were frightening themselves in the ghostly changing rooms, I found a stockpile of short, square roofing slates.
  She said she feared loose slates and masonry could fall from the roof.
  At least one criminal gang is targeting properties in Oldham and stealing items like roof slates, coping stones, flagstones and walls.
  Research carried out last year highlighted features such as village springs, stone roofing slates and sheep washes, which were often in a poor state of repair.
  On the corner of the property was the coach house, still standing and with lots of charm - with a shingle roof, and wooden slates below the roof.
  A number of slates had come loose from the roof and crashed into the bushes.
  Elterwater slate dresser Clifford Barrow drew the crowds as he sliced through stone to produce 19-inch roofing slates, used on buildings across Britain.
2A flat piece of slate used for writing on, typically framed in wood, formerly used in schools.
（尤指旧时用于学校的有木框架的）石板写字板（或黑板）
Example sentencesExamples
- Restored and resplendent, it opens its doors to visitors with handbags instead of schoolchildren swinging schoolbags full of slates, pencils and books.
- I studied in a village school sitting on the floor and we wrote on slates.
- Grandma looked up him, took a hold of her slate and wrote.
- He began to write on the slate, the chalk moving up and down to form the letters of his answer.
- And the headmaster had to beg businesses to pay for books, slates and pencils because the school could not supply them.
- Also on the anvil are a Braille slate, abacus for mathematics, geometry set with raised numbers and an alphabet plate to enable the visually impaired to learn to write.
- She is quite pleased with her knowledge about courts when she is able to pick out the jury, twelve animals and birds who are busy writing on their slates.
- The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school, in which children can try out the desks and writing slates and play games of the period.
- The children - all below five years - were given new uniforms, slates and shoes and sent to a nursery outside the jail.
- Children from the regiment showed visitors traditional toys such as wooden dolls, slates and embroidery hoops.
- The youngsters sit on bare floors in two rooms, writing notes on slates as the teacher writes on a small chalkboard.
- The reverse of the gold 2,000 baht depicts in the center a Thai girl sitting and writing a script with a slate and a tray on the floor.
- I remember writing on a slate and rubbing it off with a sponge, and learning to write using what was called a copybook.
- Each kit contains enough equipment - including paints, pens, exercise books, chalks and slates - for 80 pupils for a month.
- Pupils had the chance to try out writing on slates, and desks were set out in rows as in years gone by.
- Mac went to school when they wrote on slates and so did I. Mind you, Mac's posh school probably had paper and ink.
- Visitors can take their place at desks in three period classrooms and write on slates with chalk before progressing to dip pens and use exercise books to practise ornate copperplate writing.
- Each of the boxes includes enough pencils, exercise books, slates and school bags for a class of up to 80 pupils.
- For homework, finish both sides of your slates, writing lower case E's.
- She gave us slates to write on, made us chant some Empire geography facts, ordered us to sit up straight and swished her cane around with aplomb.
1. 2.1 A small portable computer that accepts input directly on to its screen rather than via a keyboard or mouse; a tablet computer.
  after getting our hands on one this afternoon, we found that it’s a solid, well-performing slate that’s easy on the eyes
  Example sentencesExamples
  He estimated that an average slate could sell for $700, creating a downside where netbooks and laptops see their sales cannibalized.
  The "slate" uses virtual keyboards that you poke at with a special stylus, or handwriting recognition that is hit-and-miss.
  Notebook computers and slates that let you enter data in handwriting and store it either as "digital ink" or convert it to text had a big "wow" factor.
  They'll be hunting for a slate that can be carried around and does only what they need it to do: browse, communicate, entertain.
  Laptop computers, slates, tablets and the obligatory 'Argyll Shipwrecks' book sat open on the surrounding tables.
  Some day, Mac users may all be using slates with the classic mechanical keyboard and mouse a thing of the past.
  There are two types of tablet computers currently available - slates with a pen for input and convertible laptops that have hinged, rotating screens that fold over a keyboard.
  Their forthcoming slate will have Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity as well as a multi-touch screen.
  If the new rumours are correct, Apple's second-gen iPad will be released earlier than the majority of competing slates.
  I would have preferred a simple white thin slate with a screen.
  Thanks to the swivel screen, you can either open it up and use it like a traditional laptop, swivel it up to 180 degrees for sharing or fold it back on itself, creating a touchscreen slate.
  This year the situation gets tougher for Apple as numerous PC suppliers plan to release their slates for different customers, with different specifications and at different price-points.
  Photographing him holding the slate evokes the image of someone playing with an Etch-a-Sketch.
  If you need to take notes in the field, then a slate or a convertible tablet may be a better choice for your company.
  The second-generation iPad slate will address some of the issues of the original one.
  The older iPad at $399 will really put the hurt on the Galaxy Tabs and Windows slates of the world.
  It may be that we have to have two models, one slate, without a keyboard, and one notebook-convertible.
  The retailer could sell its slate as a loss leader, but still profit by directing its tablet users to its own services and software.
  Wouldn't a mobile operating system be a better fit for slates?
  PC makers sold 122,000 slates last year, making the category less than 1 percent of the total PC market.
3usually as modifier A bluish-gray color.
suits of slate gray
一套套蓝灰色西服。
Example sentencesExamples
- He was in his shirt sleeves with a slate gray waistcoat and matching trousers.
- She was now wearing a slate wrap-around shirt, and a grey coat.
- He looked up at Jon, who was studying him with his slate gray eyes.
- The metal frames are then treated with a rust-preventative lacquer that can be infused with eight different colors, from slate gray to emerald green.
- Ryan O'Connor leans against the edge of the stage, wearing jeans and a slate blue shirt that brings out the green in his eyes.
- However, their true color varies among individuals from a uniform dark slate gray with little whitish mottling to a very light blue with extensive mottling.
- The morning sky was cloudless, and a dark shade of slate gray, not yet dawn.
- A jacket hung over his arm, the exact color of his slate gray slacks.
- Cool colours such as slate grey, navy, sleek steel and chrome are seen as inherently male.
- His eyes were slate gray, and his hair, cinnamon-colored and longish, hung straight down to his shoulders, tucked back now behind his ears.
- Most of the buildings were quite tall, probably four or five stories and made of slate gray stone.
- The bed was a twin, neatly made in the usual slate gray, along with the carpet, and the furniture.
- Contemporary hues of fruity sorbets, whites and soft neutrals will add zest to any wardrobe, and there are earthy slate colours, denims and shades of stone and copper to add versatility.
- He turned around and met a pair of slate gray eyes.
- I could not see a town, not a road, only mountains, glacial valleys, a few icy blue lakes and rivers that from the air looked slate gray.
- The sky is the colour of slate grey and touching the roof tops.
- His head jolted up; his slate gray eyes stared longingly into my own.
- His slate gray eyes turned a dull black, and I closed my eyes in pain.
- Its cousin, the stunning kokako, is slate gray with sky-blue wattles decorating a black-masked face.
- At one moment, it was slate gray, the next an inky black.
4A list of candidates for election to a post or office, typically a group sharing a set of political views.
（尤指分享一系列政治观点的团体内）提名名单，候选人名单
another slate of candidates will be picked for the state convention
Example sentencesExamples
- At the end of 1951 the Free Officers ran their own slate of candidates for election to the board of directors of the Officers' Club in Cairo.
- That big view allows him to encompass and endorse both slates of candidates for the party's executive.
- And I was very proud, frankly of South Dakota this time, because they had a terrific slate of candidates for all the offices.
- We're putting together a slate of candidates to run together in the primaries next year for state legislature.
- Yawar opposed the boycott call and headed a slate of Sunni candidates in the election.
- Not surprisingly, they are on the only slate, at this writing, that is not in principle, opposed to tuition hikes and differential fees.
- To bolster its opposition credentials, the Socialist Caucus is standing a full slate of candidates for the party executive, including party leader.
- When all is said and done, each political ‘boss’ emerges unscathed and with a slate of candidates to call his or her own.
- Challenges to official director slates will likely be rare, but the mere threat of them could weigh heavily on management decisions.
- With six slates and 46 candidates for the board running in the election, candidates outnumbered audience members at each debate.
- Have you ever written to your slate or federal senators or representatives?
- The idea is to obtain a slate of national representatives who are a ‘mirror of the nation.’
- The Greater London elections also saw a slate of socialists winning substantial votes.
- Under Illinois law the Green Party had only 90 days to collect the signatures and was also required to field a slate of candidates for every office on the ballot.
- The divisions and states with more than one representative to the Council of Representatives should designate ethnic-minority slates for at least one of the positions.
- First, for three consecutive terms the Concordia student population has elected slates of anti-capitalist representatives.
- An entire slate of candidates running in last week's student union election has been disqualified for gross violations of election rules.
- Nominating Committee members work together to prepare and present an annual slate of candidates for national office.
- The election for that Parliament has to be made from a complete slate of six candidates.
- As it is, the unions always run slates of candidates during the board's elections and hold caucus meetings before board meetings to discuss how teachers are going to vote.
1. 4.1North American A range of something offered.
  〈主北美〉一系列资助
  the company has revealed details of a $60 million slate of film productions
  这家公司透露了一项6，000万美元的电影制作资助的细节。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The USMA Band and its ensembles can keep your toes tapping with a full slate of free public concerts and recitals throughout the year.
  BBC Television is investing in the biggest slate of emblematic, major projects in its history.
  The festival also featured a full slate of workshops and panels.
  Be prepared to see a whole slate of films next summer filmed in 3D!
  Presently we have a slate of another 19 films, which are all scheduled to be produced in Bulgaria over the next three years.
  He questions how many providers offering basically the same slate of services can exist in a market.
  I'd like to see a major studio take its slate down to 8 films a year… and have 6 significant moneymakers.
  Beneath these vastly newsworthy honours, however, is the same slate of police, army, foreign service, civil service and public service awards.
  The hallmark of the film festival this year was a slate of African films, heralding a mini-renaissance.
  Now in its third year, the Casa del Popolo's in-house music fest offers a slate of performers from around the world.
  He issues loans for slates of films at a studio - 5 to 15 at a time - not single flicks.
  The international future, then, offers up a whole slate of questions and requirements, and sets a steep agenda for preparing strategic leaders.
  The spring show will build on this success by kicking off the trade season with an entire slate of new records for number of buyers, exhibitors, scale, and selection.
  Ross and crew jumped in with a production slate of a dozen original films annually, a gambit that has paid off.
  HBO hasn't gone all out, but they have provided a decent slate of extra material that delves deeply into the roots of this show.
  The week after a slate of games, hats will be worn and old jerseys can be seen throughout the team complex - losers forced to dress in hostile colors against their own will.
5A board showing the identifying details of a take of a motion picture, which is held in front of the camera at its beginning and end.
（置于摄影机前的）（识别一次电影拍摄镜头细节起讫的）开拍板
Example sentencesExamples
- The director of this film actually clapped the slate and then decided that these scenes were KEEPERS.
- The slate's most obvious purpose is the documentation it provides on what scene is being filmed, when it was filmed, what take it was, which film reel it was, etc.
- We ascend, our cameras out of film and our slates covered in a jumble of barely decipherable notes.
- This color cartoon clipart picture shows a woman holding a slate for a movie set, ready to clap the bar shut; the slate has a number "2" written on it, for take two.

verbsleɪtslāt

[with object]

1Cover (something, especially a roof) with slates.
用石板铺盖（某物，尤指屋顶）
Example sentencesExamples
- The entire centre of the yard was covered and slated with a large open-ended platform at either end.
- The contractor shall inspect all surfaces prepared for slating.
- The roof will be slated and the front elevations will mostly be of natural stone, and each house has a large back garden.
- Roofs can be either tiled or slated.
2British informal Criticize severely.
〈英，非正式〉猛烈抨击，严厉批评
his work was slated by the critics
他的作品受到评论家的苛责。
Example sentencesExamples
- The bill was slated as a death sentence for several organisations working in the country.
- The design plans have been slated and the size and scale of the entire undertaking must be totally rethought.
- Although I admit to being one of those who'll slate a referee at a match, I also understand the enormous task they face once the whistle is blown.
- British car journalists slated the car, ‘but why?’
- Browne slates the Catholic Church authorities for their failures.
- They both slated the referee, who, they claimed, was wrong to allow a goal scored by Dublin.
- Last December it was slated in a highly critical report released by the powerful Commons Treasury Select Committee.
- But the comedian, whose previews were unanimously slated by the critics last week, informed festival organisers that the show could not go on, for the time being at least.
- ‘The London premiere was slated by the critics for being propaganda, and it hasn't been performed since, but it has value,’ Osborne says.
- He says New Zealand is a country trying to promote itself as a leading golf destination, so the last thing the sport needs is its number one professional slating a leading course.
Synonyms
criticize harshly, attack, pillory, lambaste, condemn, flay, savage, shoot down, revile, vilify
3usually be slatedNorth American Schedule; plan.
renovations are slated for late June
伦敦的演出定于6月下旬。
with infinitive construction is slated to begin late next year
Example sentencesExamples
- Both games are slated to start at 8: 00 p.m. in the Physical Activities Centre.
- However, they expect some answers from the voluntary, two-year, nationwide monitoring program, which is slated to begin later this year.
- I arrived early enough to read the papers in time for the first interview, which was slated for recording at eleven.
- The three-year experimental program is slated to end this summer, and because of the state's tight budget situation, may not be renewed.
- At least four plays are slated to open this week…
- At press time, renovation work was slated to start on Nov.18, but McDonough expected some permitting delays.
- The initial native program was slated to last only two years, but Roger and staff have made a long-term commitment to keep the areas intact.
- The plan is slated to take effect for 2007 models.
- The city says the street was slated for repairs before the governor's appearance was scheduled.
- Why would it appear on the cover of an edition slated for the UK?
- Kelly's court appearance is slated for Jan. 30.
- As to settlement assets, there are 2,586 homes slated for evacuation, covering approximately 20 per cent of the land in Gaza.
- He said more Jacksonville stores are slated for renovations, but could not confirm which ones.…
- Not only that, her new boyfriend, one of the newspapermen from the train, seems to be enamored of the mysterious Sophia and is slated to cover the final event.
- The trade union federation is demanding that a list of 30 companies slated for closure be covered by a severance agreement.
- The day's schedule had us slated for just before lunch.
- Already more than half the population is covered by this Programme and full coverage is slated for 2005.
- The plan, slated for the go-ahead by the city, has been put on hold by the province.
- In the meantime, Edmund is slated to take his father's estate.
- The show is slated to be open sometime in November or December and will be in Mumbai as well as in Delhi, ‘he said.’
Synonyms
schedule, set, set up, arrange, organize, sort out, fix, fix up, fix a time for, time, book, line up, slot in, prearrange, bill, programme, plan
1. 3.1 Nominate (someone) as a candidate for an office or post.
  〈主北美〉提（名），将（某人）定为人选
  I understand that I am being slated for promotion
  我知道我正被定为晋升的人选。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Nominations Committee has slated candidates for the position of Chair-elect and Secretary.
  That is important - he was twice slated for disqualification during the year (possibly meaning a life ban).
  That officer was slated to become the squadron leader before he died.
  The Democrats and Republicans slated their legislative candidates at the end of September or in early October, with the election scheduled for November 7.
  He is slated to lead depressed Argentina until elections for a new president in March.
  Well, last night I got an email saying that my application is selected and I'm slated to go look on a Cornell team for the ivory-billed woodpecker in early December.
  The criticism the Municipal Reform Club received from Republican circles for not endorsing Thomas and for slating a candidate to oppose Bash seemed to increase Thomas' confidence.
  I am slated to open an office in a prestigious location with a co-worker coming up in September.
  Neither is Powell slated to be the Attorney General, where he may choose the civil rights czar, who carves the policy groove on race in the Justice Department.
  I'm presently slated to moderate fourteen (!) panels, most of them about comic book history, and they're all goodies.
4Identify (a movie take) using a slate.
用镜头起讫板识别（镜头）
Example sentencesExamples
- When one camera is slated, someone puts their hand over the lens of the other camera to block the view of the other camera's slate.
- Slate every shot, even if you are going direct into the camera.
- They discuss how to proceed, conduct run-throughs, slate shots, film the filming; and as they do so, you get to know these young people.

Origin

Middle English sclate, sklate, shortening of Old French esclate, feminine synonymous with esclat ‘piece broken off’ (see slat).

单词	slate
释义	Definition of slate in English: slate noun sleɪtsleɪt 1mass noun A fine-grained grey, green, or bluish-purple metamorphic rock easily split into smooth, flat plates. 板岩，页岩 as modifier slate quarries a slate floor Example sentencesExamples The rural landscape and simple landforms have proved a great stimulus, and many of her pieces incorporate stone, slate or limestone. The choices when it comes to real stone are generally traditional York stone, sandstone, limestone or slate. Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and limestone throughout the region. But also consider some other bathroom floor options, like slate or marble, or even rubber tiles. New surfaces are made from chemical compounds and are designed to mimic granite, limestone, marble, slate, or soapstone. The fashion ads also incorporate stone, rock, water and slate for a textural feeling. Hodge Close was one of a group of green slate quarries in the Lake District that were worked from the mid-19th century. By the mid-19th century there were 15 quarries working slate, flags, sandstone and limestone. The most handsome and timeless of materials is stone such as marble, granite, limestone, or slate. His study of occupational lung diseases included the pathology of workers exposed to coal, talc, slate, and kaolin. The most resistant rocks are quartzite and quartz-rich sandstones, and tough fine-grained rocks such as slate. These extrusive rocks are tilted and rest unconformably upon metamorphosed limestone, shale, and slate. It includes a variety of rocks, such as basalt, granite, gneiss, quartzite, slate, and schist. With two floors of windows, natural wood, river rock and slate, it makes a perfect backdrop for the captivating view. The floors are locally quarried slate, carried from the mountains on donkey back and hand-cut to fit tightly together in random patterns. It consists of graphitic schist and slate, psammite, pelitic schist/gneiss and augen gneiss at structurally higher levels. Stone is just what its name implies: quarried slate, limestone, flagstone, granite, or marble. The first floor accommodation is completed by a spacious family bathroom with slate floor and rich green walls. The smooth slate floor of the bottom level reflects the rough basalt on the pathway through a preserved grove of evergreens. Beyond the kitchen is the family room, which has a cast-iron fireplace and quarry slate floor. 1.1 A flat plate of slate used as roofing material. 石板，石板瓦 a loose slate falls from the roof as modifier a grey slate roof Example sentencesExamples Roofing slates from the Delabole quarry have been used on several Adelaide buildings, including the Post Office, Town Hall, Museum and Adelaide University. The council discovered that there were loose slates on the roof which would have fallen into the street without the gutter in place. Timber roof supports burnt away, causing large slates to fall into the building and the front of one of the flats to bulge. The floor tiles, roof slates and even the pottery that the monks used were also all French as were the coins, representing the dues that the monks collected for the benefit of their Mother House. On the corner of the property was the coach house, still standing and with lots of charm - with a shingle roof, and wooden slates below the roof. A number of slates had come loose from the roof and crashed into the bushes. Among the demands made by the council are the painting of gable walls, plastering a brick chimney, and fixing loose slates. A leaking roof can lead to damage on ceilings and walls, so it is important to replace loose or cracked slates, and get damaged material on flat roofs repaired. They were mainly being asked to remove fallen trees or dangerous roof slates which had come loose and were a danger to the public. She dropped down onto the roof of the porch and caught her foot on a loose slate which crashed to the ground beneath her. She said she feared loose slates and masonry could fall from the roof. At least one criminal gang is targeting properties in Oldham and stealing items like roof slates, coping stones, flagstones and walls. Check that your roof isn't missing any shingles, tiles, slates or nails. While my friends were frightening themselves in the ghostly changing rooms, I found a stockpile of short, square roofing slates. It needs to be re-roofed, the slates are falling off and the building is rotting. He said, ‘I remember a time when there was chicken wire pinned to the eaves to stop the slates falling on the children.’ Elterwater slate dresser Clifford Barrow drew the crowds as he sliced through stone to produce 19-inch roofing slates, used on buildings across Britain. Research carried out last year highlighted features such as village springs, stone roofing slates and sheep washes, which were often in a poor state of repair. We appear to have inherited a number of problems with roofing tiles and slates which are not always fixed with the precision and detailing required by the manufacturers (number of fixings etc). He grabbed the peak of the roof as he fell full against the slates. 2A flat plate of slate formerly used for writing on in schools. （尤指旧时用于学校的有木框架的）石板写字板（或黑板） the teacher was demonstrating, the children copying on to slates Example sentencesExamples For homework, finish both sides of your slates, writing lower case E's. Mac went to school when they wrote on slates and so did I. Mind you, Mac's posh school probably had paper and ink. She gave us slates to write on, made us chant some Empire geography facts, ordered us to sit up straight and swished her cane around with aplomb. Pupils had the chance to try out writing on slates, and desks were set out in rows as in years gone by. And the headmaster had to beg businesses to pay for books, slates and pencils because the school could not supply them. Also on the anvil are a Braille slate, abacus for mathematics, geometry set with raised numbers and an alphabet plate to enable the visually impaired to learn to write. He began to write on the slate, the chalk moving up and down to form the letters of his answer. Visitors can take their place at desks in three period classrooms and write on slates with chalk before progressing to dip pens and use exercise books to practise ornate copperplate writing. Each of the boxes includes enough pencils, exercise books, slates and school bags for a class of up to 80 pupils. Restored and resplendent, it opens its doors to visitors with handbags instead of schoolchildren swinging schoolbags full of slates, pencils and books. Children from the regiment showed visitors traditional toys such as wooden dolls, slates and embroidery hoops. The children - all below five years - were given new uniforms, slates and shoes and sent to a nursery outside the jail. Grandma looked up him, took a hold of her slate and wrote. Each kit contains enough equipment - including paints, pens, exercise books, chalks and slates - for 80 pupils for a month. The youngsters sit on bare floors in two rooms, writing notes on slates as the teacher writes on a small chalkboard. The reverse of the gold 2,000 baht depicts in the center a Thai girl sitting and writing a script with a slate and a tray on the floor. She is quite pleased with her knowledge about courts when she is able to pick out the jury, twelve animals and birds who are busy writing on their slates. I remember writing on a slate and rubbing it off with a sponge, and learning to write using what was called a copybook. I studied in a village school sitting on the floor and we wrote on slates. The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school, in which children can try out the desks and writing slates and play games of the period. 2.1British A record of a person's debit or credit (in pubs and shops formerly written on a slate) ‘Five quid,’ said the barman. ‘Put it on my slate,’ I suggested “五磅，"酒吧男招待说。“记在我账上，"我建议道。 Example sentencesExamples One explanation for the extraordinary name of the pub relates to a long dead landlord who put the beer "on the slate" for thirsty road-makers when the track up the hill was metalled. He asked Don to let him have a drink on the slate but Don refused. 2.2 A small portable computer that accepts input directly on to its screen rather than via a keyboard or mouse; a tablet computer. after getting our hands on one this afternoon, we found that it’s a solid, well-performing slate that’s easy on the eyes Example sentencesExamples Thanks to the swivel screen, you can either open it up and use it like a traditional laptop, swivel it up to 180 degrees for sharing or fold it back on itself, creating a touchscreen slate. It may be that we have to have two models, one slate, without a keyboard, and one notebook-convertible. Wouldn't a mobile operating system be a better fit for slates? They'll be hunting for a slate that can be carried around and does only what they need it to do: browse, communicate, entertain. The older iPad at $399 will really put the hurt on the Galaxy Tabs and Windows slates of the world. Photographing him holding the slate evokes the image of someone playing with an Etch-a-Sketch. Their forthcoming slate will have Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity as well as a multi-touch screen. Notebook computers and slates that let you enter data in handwriting and store it either as "digital ink" or convert it to text had a big "wow" factor. This year the situation gets tougher for Apple as numerous PC suppliers plan to release their slates for different customers, with different specifications and at different price-points. If the new rumours are correct, Apple's second-gen iPad will be released earlier than the majority of competing slates. Laptop computers, slates, tablets and the obligatory 'Argyll Shipwrecks' book sat open on the surrounding tables. I would have preferred a simple white thin slate with a screen. The second-generation iPad slate will address some of the issues of the original one. He estimated that an average slate could sell for $700, creating a downside where netbooks and laptops see their sales cannibalized. The retailer could sell its slate as a loss leader, but still profit by directing its tablet users to its own services and software. If you need to take notes in the field, then a slate or a convertible tablet may be a better choice for your company. There are two types of tablet computers currently available - slates with a pen for input and convertible laptops that have hinged, rotating screens that fold over a keyboard. The "slate" uses virtual keyboards that you poke at with a special stylus, or handwriting recognition that is hit-and-miss. PC makers sold 122,000 slates last year, making the category less than 1 percent of the total PC market. Some day, Mac users may all be using slates with the classic mechanical keyboard and mouse a thing of the past. 3mass noun, usually as modifier A bluish-grey colour. 石板色，蓝灰色 suits of slate grey 一套套蓝灰色西服。 Example sentencesExamples Cool colours such as slate grey, navy, sleek steel and chrome are seen as inherently male. He looked up at Jon, who was studying him with his slate gray eyes. His slate gray eyes turned a dull black, and I closed my eyes in pain. Ryan O'Connor leans against the edge of the stage, wearing jeans and a slate blue shirt that brings out the green in his eyes. The metal frames are then treated with a rust-preventative lacquer that can be infused with eight different colors, from slate gray to emerald green. She was now wearing a slate wrap-around shirt, and a grey coat. I could not see a town, not a road, only mountains, glacial valleys, a few icy blue lakes and rivers that from the air looked slate gray. The morning sky was cloudless, and a dark shade of slate gray, not yet dawn. A jacket hung over his arm, the exact color of his slate gray slacks. Contemporary hues of fruity sorbets, whites and soft neutrals will add zest to any wardrobe, and there are earthy slate colours, denims and shades of stone and copper to add versatility. His head jolted up; his slate gray eyes stared longingly into my own. He was in his shirt sleeves with a slate gray waistcoat and matching trousers. At one moment, it was slate gray, the next an inky black. The sky is the colour of slate grey and touching the roof tops. Its cousin, the stunning kokako, is slate gray with sky-blue wattles decorating a black-masked face. He turned around and met a pair of slate gray eyes. Most of the buildings were quite tall, probably four or five stories and made of slate gray stone. His eyes were slate gray, and his hair, cinnamon-colored and longish, hung straight down to his shoulders, tucked back now behind his ears. However, their true color varies among individuals from a uniform dark slate gray with little whitish mottling to a very light blue with extensive mottling. The bed was a twin, neatly made in the usual slate gray, along with the carpet, and the furniture. 4A list of candidates for election to a post or office, typically a group sharing a set of political views. （尤指分享一系列政治观点的团体内）提名名单，候选人名单 candidates on the left's slate won 74 per cent of constituency votes 左翼人选获得选区74%选民的投票。 Example sentencesExamples With six slates and 46 candidates for the board running in the election, candidates outnumbered audience members at each debate. And I was very proud, frankly of South Dakota this time, because they had a terrific slate of candidates for all the offices. Yawar opposed the boycott call and headed a slate of Sunni candidates in the election. The idea is to obtain a slate of national representatives who are a ‘mirror of the nation.’ The election for that Parliament has to be made from a complete slate of six candidates. Under Illinois law the Green Party had only 90 days to collect the signatures and was also required to field a slate of candidates for every office on the ballot. To bolster its opposition credentials, the Socialist Caucus is standing a full slate of candidates for the party executive, including party leader. The Greater London elections also saw a slate of socialists winning substantial votes. Not surprisingly, they are on the only slate, at this writing, that is not in principle, opposed to tuition hikes and differential fees. Have you ever written to your slate or federal senators or representatives? An entire slate of candidates running in last week's student union election has been disqualified for gross violations of election rules. That big view allows him to encompass and endorse both slates of candidates for the party's executive. As it is, the unions always run slates of candidates during the board's elections and hold caucus meetings before board meetings to discuss how teachers are going to vote. At the end of 1951 the Free Officers ran their own slate of candidates for election to the board of directors of the Officers' Club in Cairo. Nominating Committee members work together to prepare and present an annual slate of candidates for national office. When all is said and done, each political ‘boss’ emerges unscathed and with a slate of candidates to call his or her own. The divisions and states with more than one representative to the Council of Representatives should designate ethnic-minority slates for at least one of the positions. Challenges to official director slates will likely be rare, but the mere threat of them could weigh heavily on management decisions. We're putting together a slate of candidates to run together in the primaries next year for state legislature. First, for three consecutive terms the Concordia student population has elected slates of anti-capitalist representatives. 4.1North American A range of something on offer. 〈主北美〉一系列资助 the company has revealed details of a $60m slate of film productions 这家公司透露了一项6，000万美元的电影制作资助的细节。 Example sentencesExamples Ross and crew jumped in with a production slate of a dozen original films annually, a gambit that has paid off. He issues loans for slates of films at a studio - 5 to 15 at a time - not single flicks. I'd like to see a major studio take its slate down to 8 films a year… and have 6 significant moneymakers. Beneath these vastly newsworthy honours, however, is the same slate of police, army, foreign service, civil service and public service awards. Presently we have a slate of another 19 films, which are all scheduled to be produced in Bulgaria over the next three years. The spring show will build on this success by kicking off the trade season with an entire slate of new records for number of buyers, exhibitors, scale, and selection. The festival also featured a full slate of workshops and panels. Now in its third year, the Casa del Popolo's in-house music fest offers a slate of performers from around the world. HBO hasn't gone all out, but they have provided a decent slate of extra material that delves deeply into the roots of this show. The week after a slate of games, hats will be worn and old jerseys can be seen throughout the team complex - losers forced to dress in hostile colors against their own will. Be prepared to see a whole slate of films next summer filmed in 3D! He questions how many providers offering basically the same slate of services can exist in a market. The international future, then, offers up a whole slate of questions and requirements, and sets a steep agenda for preparing strategic leaders. The hallmark of the film festival this year was a slate of African films, heralding a mini-renaissance. BBC Television is investing in the biggest slate of emblematic, major projects in its history. The USMA Band and its ensembles can keep your toes tapping with a full slate of free public concerts and recitals throughout the year. 5A board showing the identifying details of a take in a film, held in front of the camera at the beginning and end of the take. （置于摄影机前的）（识别一次电影拍摄镜头细节起讫的）开拍板 the electronic time-code system allowed us to shoot with or without conventional slates Example sentencesExamples This color cartoon clipart picture shows a woman holding a slate for a movie set, ready to clap the bar shut; the slate has a number "2" written on it, for take two. The slate's most obvious purpose is the documentation it provides on what scene is being filmed, when it was filmed, what take it was, which film reel it was, etc. We ascend, our cameras out of film and our slates covered in a jumble of barely decipherable notes. The director of this film actually clapped the slate and then decided that these scenes were KEEPERS. verb sleɪtsleɪt [with object] 1Cover (something, especially a roof) with slates. 用石板铺盖（某物，尤指屋顶） he was working for his father slating a new roof a slated roof Example sentencesExamples The roof will be slated and the front elevations will mostly be of natural stone, and each house has a large back garden. Roofs can be either tiled or slated. The contractor shall inspect all surfaces prepared for slating. The entire centre of the yard was covered and slated with a large open-ended platform at either end. 2British informal Criticize severely. 〈英，非正式〉猛烈抨击，严厉批评 his work was slated by the critics 他的作品受到评论家的苛责。 Example sentencesExamples ‘The London premiere was slated by the critics for being propaganda, and it hasn't been performed since, but it has value,’ Osborne says. Browne slates the Catholic Church authorities for their failures. The design plans have been slated and the size and scale of the entire undertaking must be totally rethought. The bill was slated as a death sentence for several organisations working in the country. British car journalists slated the car, ‘but why?’ They both slated the referee, who, they claimed, was wrong to allow a goal scored by Dublin. He says New Zealand is a country trying to promote itself as a leading golf destination, so the last thing the sport needs is its number one professional slating a leading course. Although I admit to being one of those who'll slate a referee at a match, I also understand the enormous task they face once the whistle is blown. But the comedian, whose previews were unanimously slated by the critics last week, informed festival organisers that the show could not go on, for the time being at least. Last December it was slated in a highly critical report released by the powerful Commons Treasury Select Committee. Synonyms criticize harshly, attack, pillory, lambaste, condemn, flay, savage, shoot down, revile, vilify informal pan, knock, tear/pull/take to pieces, take/pull apart, crucify, hammer, slam, do a hatchet job on, bash, give something a battering, roast, skewer, maul, throw brickbats at British informal rubbish, slag off, monster North American informal trash, pummel Australian/New Zealand informal bag archaic slash rare excoriate 3North American Schedule; plan. London shows are slated for late June 伦敦的演出定于6月下旬。 with infinitive construction is slated to begin late next year Example sentencesExamples The plan, slated for the go-ahead by the city, has been put on hold by the province. Already more than half the population is covered by this Programme and full coverage is slated for 2005. The three-year experimental program is slated to end this summer, and because of the state's tight budget situation, may not be renewed. The plan is slated to take effect for 2007 models. At least four plays are slated to open this week… The day's schedule had us slated for just before lunch. However, they expect some answers from the voluntary, two-year, nationwide monitoring program, which is slated to begin later this year. The trade union federation is demanding that a list of 30 companies slated for closure be covered by a severance agreement. In the meantime, Edmund is slated to take his father's estate. Both games are slated to start at 8: 00 p.m. in the Physical Activities Centre. Kelly's court appearance is slated for Jan. 30. I arrived early enough to read the papers in time for the first interview, which was slated for recording at eleven. The show is slated to be open sometime in November or December and will be in Mumbai as well as in Delhi, ‘he said.’ As to settlement assets, there are 2,586 homes slated for evacuation, covering approximately 20 per cent of the land in Gaza. The city says the street was slated for repairs before the governor's appearance was scheduled. He said more Jacksonville stores are slated for renovations, but could not confirm which ones.… The initial native program was slated to last only two years, but Roger and staff have made a long-term commitment to keep the areas intact. Why would it appear on the cover of an edition slated for the UK? Not only that, her new boyfriend, one of the newspapermen from the train, seems to be enamored of the mysterious Sophia and is slated to cover the final event. At press time, renovation work was slated to start on Nov.18, but McDonough expected some permitting delays. Synonyms schedule, set, set up, arrange, organize, sort out, fix, fix up, fix a time for, time, book, line up, slot in, prearrange, bill, programme, plan 3.1 Nominate (someone) as a candidate for an office or post. 〈主北美〉提（名），将（某人）定为人选 I understand that I am being slated for promotion 我知道我正被定为晋升的人选。 Example sentencesExamples Well, last night I got an email saying that my application is selected and I'm slated to go look on a Cornell team for the ivory-billed woodpecker in early December. Neither is Powell slated to be the Attorney General, where he may choose the civil rights czar, who carves the policy groove on race in the Justice Department. The Nominations Committee has slated candidates for the position of Chair-elect and Secretary. I'm presently slated to moderate fourteen (!) panels, most of them about comic book history, and they're all goodies. The Democrats and Republicans slated their legislative candidates at the end of September or in early October, with the election scheduled for November 7. I am slated to open an office in a prestigious location with a co-worker coming up in September. That is important - he was twice slated for disqualification during the year (possibly meaning a life ban). He is slated to lead depressed Argentina until elections for a new president in March. That officer was slated to become the squadron leader before he died. The criticism the Municipal Reform Club received from Republican circles for not endorsing Thomas and for slating a candidate to oppose Bash seemed to increase Thomas' confidence. 4Identify (a take in a film) using a slate. 用镜头起讫板识别（镜头） the assistant cameraman is about to slate the scene Example sentencesExamples When one camera is slated, someone puts their hand over the lens of the other camera to block the view of the other camera's slate. Slate every shot, even if you are going direct into the camera. They discuss how to proceed, conduct run-throughs, slate shots, film the filming; and as they do so, you get to know these young people. Derivatives slaty adjective ˈsleɪtiˈsleɪdi Plumage color of homozygous birds varies from slaty blue to beige depending on the relative abundance of eumelanin and pheomelanin in the feathers. Example sentencesExamples The slaty cleavage precludes recovery of any fossils. Beyond the strip of level ground there is a ‘short steep preparatory slope’ (a one-in-three incline, as we later learn), slaty and with only the sparsest vegetation. Others have ‘purple ‘flowers, ranging from deep, slaty purple to pinkish purple; some with lines or spots of a darker color.’ In the slaty light of one such foggy dawn, a long-legged Namib beetle (genus Stenocara) stands on a small ridge of sand. Origin Middle English sclate, sklate, shortening of Old French esclate, feminine synonymous with esclat 'piece broken off' (see slat). This is from the Old French esclat ‘a piece broken off’. Slat (Late Middle English) is a variant which meant ‘roofing slate’ until it developed the current sense in the mid 18th century. Schoolchildren formerly used flat pieces of slate for writing on in chalk, and shops and bars used the same materials for keeping a record of what a customer owed. This is the origin of the expression on the slate, ‘to be paid for later, on credit’. The related French esclice ‘splinter’ gives us slice (Middle English) and their common Germanic source also gives us slit (Old English). In the sense ‘to criticize’, dating from the mid 19th century, slate is probably a different word. It might derive from the slightly earlier Irish sense ‘to beat, beat up’ and be related to a Scots use of slate meaning ‘to set a dog on’, which is from Old Norse. Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight Definition of slate in US English: slate nounsleɪtslāt 1A fine-grained gray, green, or bluish metamorphic rock easily split into smooth, flat pieces. 板岩，页岩 Example sentencesExamples His study of occupational lung diseases included the pathology of workers exposed to coal, talc, slate, and kaolin. Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and limestone throughout the region. The first floor accommodation is completed by a spacious family bathroom with slate floor and rich green walls. The choices when it comes to real stone are generally traditional York stone, sandstone, limestone or slate. But also consider some other bathroom floor options, like slate or marble, or even rubber tiles. The most handsome and timeless of materials is stone such as marble, granite, limestone, or slate. The smooth slate floor of the bottom level reflects the rough basalt on the pathway through a preserved grove of evergreens. The most resistant rocks are quartzite and quartz-rich sandstones, and tough fine-grained rocks such as slate. The floors are locally quarried slate, carried from the mountains on donkey back and hand-cut to fit tightly together in random patterns. Stone is just what its name implies: quarried slate, limestone, flagstone, granite, or marble. The fashion ads also incorporate stone, rock, water and slate for a textural feeling. It includes a variety of rocks, such as basalt, granite, gneiss, quartzite, slate, and schist. It consists of graphitic schist and slate, psammite, pelitic schist/gneiss and augen gneiss at structurally higher levels. By the mid-19th century there were 15 quarries working slate, flags, sandstone and limestone. These extrusive rocks are tilted and rest unconformably upon metamorphosed limestone, shale, and slate. Hodge Close was one of a group of green slate quarries in the Lake District that were worked from the mid-19th century. With two floors of windows, natural wood, river rock and slate, it makes a perfect backdrop for the captivating view. The rural landscape and simple landforms have proved a great stimulus, and many of her pieces incorporate stone, slate or limestone. Beyond the kitchen is the family room, which has a cast-iron fireplace and quarry slate floor. New surfaces are made from chemical compounds and are designed to mimic granite, limestone, marble, slate, or soapstone. 1.1 A flat piece of slate used as roofing material. 石板，石板瓦 Example sentencesExamples Among the demands made by the council are the painting of gable walls, plastering a brick chimney, and fixing loose slates. It needs to be re-roofed, the slates are falling off and the building is rotting. He grabbed the peak of the roof as he fell full against the slates. She dropped down onto the roof of the porch and caught her foot on a loose slate which crashed to the ground beneath her. Check that your roof isn't missing any shingles, tiles, slates or nails. A leaking roof can lead to damage on ceilings and walls, so it is important to replace loose or cracked slates, and get damaged material on flat roofs repaired. The council discovered that there were loose slates on the roof which would have fallen into the street without the gutter in place. The floor tiles, roof slates and even the pottery that the monks used were also all French as were the coins, representing the dues that the monks collected for the benefit of their Mother House. He said, ‘I remember a time when there was chicken wire pinned to the eaves to stop the slates falling on the children.’ Roofing slates from the Delabole quarry have been used on several Adelaide buildings, including the Post Office, Town Hall, Museum and Adelaide University. They were mainly being asked to remove fallen trees or dangerous roof slates which had come loose and were a danger to the public. We appear to have inherited a number of problems with roofing tiles and slates which are not always fixed with the precision and detailing required by the manufacturers (number of fixings etc). Timber roof supports burnt away, causing large slates to fall into the building and the front of one of the flats to bulge. While my friends were frightening themselves in the ghostly changing rooms, I found a stockpile of short, square roofing slates. She said she feared loose slates and masonry could fall from the roof. At least one criminal gang is targeting properties in Oldham and stealing items like roof slates, coping stones, flagstones and walls. Research carried out last year highlighted features such as village springs, stone roofing slates and sheep washes, which were often in a poor state of repair. On the corner of the property was the coach house, still standing and with lots of charm - with a shingle roof, and wooden slates below the roof. A number of slates had come loose from the roof and crashed into the bushes. Elterwater slate dresser Clifford Barrow drew the crowds as he sliced through stone to produce 19-inch roofing slates, used on buildings across Britain. 2A flat piece of slate used for writing on, typically framed in wood, formerly used in schools. （尤指旧时用于学校的有木框架的）石板写字板（或黑板） Example sentencesExamples Restored and resplendent, it opens its doors to visitors with handbags instead of schoolchildren swinging schoolbags full of slates, pencils and books. I studied in a village school sitting on the floor and we wrote on slates. Grandma looked up him, took a hold of her slate and wrote. He began to write on the slate, the chalk moving up and down to form the letters of his answer. And the headmaster had to beg businesses to pay for books, slates and pencils because the school could not supply them. Also on the anvil are a Braille slate, abacus for mathematics, geometry set with raised numbers and an alphabet plate to enable the visually impaired to learn to write. She is quite pleased with her knowledge about courts when she is able to pick out the jury, twelve animals and birds who are busy writing on their slates. The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school, in which children can try out the desks and writing slates and play games of the period. The children - all below five years - were given new uniforms, slates and shoes and sent to a nursery outside the jail. Children from the regiment showed visitors traditional toys such as wooden dolls, slates and embroidery hoops. The youngsters sit on bare floors in two rooms, writing notes on slates as the teacher writes on a small chalkboard. The reverse of the gold 2,000 baht depicts in the center a Thai girl sitting and writing a script with a slate and a tray on the floor. I remember writing on a slate and rubbing it off with a sponge, and learning to write using what was called a copybook. Each kit contains enough equipment - including paints, pens, exercise books, chalks and slates - for 80 pupils for a month. Pupils had the chance to try out writing on slates, and desks were set out in rows as in years gone by. Mac went to school when they wrote on slates and so did I. Mind you, Mac's posh school probably had paper and ink. Visitors can take their place at desks in three period classrooms and write on slates with chalk before progressing to dip pens and use exercise books to practise ornate copperplate writing. Each of the boxes includes enough pencils, exercise books, slates and school bags for a class of up to 80 pupils. For homework, finish both sides of your slates, writing lower case E's. She gave us slates to write on, made us chant some Empire geography facts, ordered us to sit up straight and swished her cane around with aplomb. 2.1 A small portable computer that accepts input directly on to its screen rather than via a keyboard or mouse; a tablet computer. after getting our hands on one this afternoon, we found that it’s a solid, well-performing slate that’s easy on the eyes Example sentencesExamples He estimated that an average slate could sell for $700, creating a downside where netbooks and laptops see their sales cannibalized. The "slate" uses virtual keyboards that you poke at with a special stylus, or handwriting recognition that is hit-and-miss. Notebook computers and slates that let you enter data in handwriting and store it either as "digital ink" or convert it to text had a big "wow" factor. They'll be hunting for a slate that can be carried around and does only what they need it to do: browse, communicate, entertain. Laptop computers, slates, tablets and the obligatory 'Argyll Shipwrecks' book sat open on the surrounding tables. Some day, Mac users may all be using slates with the classic mechanical keyboard and mouse a thing of the past. There are two types of tablet computers currently available - slates with a pen for input and convertible laptops that have hinged, rotating screens that fold over a keyboard. Their forthcoming slate will have Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity as well as a multi-touch screen. If the new rumours are correct, Apple's second-gen iPad will be released earlier than the majority of competing slates. I would have preferred a simple white thin slate with a screen. Thanks to the swivel screen, you can either open it up and use it like a traditional laptop, swivel it up to 180 degrees for sharing or fold it back on itself, creating a touchscreen slate. This year the situation gets tougher for Apple as numerous PC suppliers plan to release their slates for different customers, with different specifications and at different price-points. Photographing him holding the slate evokes the image of someone playing with an Etch-a-Sketch. If you need to take notes in the field, then a slate or a convertible tablet may be a better choice for your company. The second-generation iPad slate will address some of the issues of the original one. The older iPad at $399 will really put the hurt on the Galaxy Tabs and Windows slates of the world. It may be that we have to have two models, one slate, without a keyboard, and one notebook-convertible. The retailer could sell its slate as a loss leader, but still profit by directing its tablet users to its own services and software. Wouldn't a mobile operating system be a better fit for slates? PC makers sold 122,000 slates last year, making the category less than 1 percent of the total PC market. 3usually as modifier A bluish-gray color. suits of slate gray 一套套蓝灰色西服。 Example sentencesExamples He was in his shirt sleeves with a slate gray waistcoat and matching trousers. She was now wearing a slate wrap-around shirt, and a grey coat. He looked up at Jon, who was studying him with his slate gray eyes. The metal frames are then treated with a rust-preventative lacquer that can be infused with eight different colors, from slate gray to emerald green. Ryan O'Connor leans against the edge of the stage, wearing jeans and a slate blue shirt that brings out the green in his eyes. However, their true color varies among individuals from a uniform dark slate gray with little whitish mottling to a very light blue with extensive mottling. The morning sky was cloudless, and a dark shade of slate gray, not yet dawn. A jacket hung over his arm, the exact color of his slate gray slacks. Cool colours such as slate grey, navy, sleek steel and chrome are seen as inherently male. His eyes were slate gray, and his hair, cinnamon-colored and longish, hung straight down to his shoulders, tucked back now behind his ears. Most of the buildings were quite tall, probably four or five stories and made of slate gray stone. The bed was a twin, neatly made in the usual slate gray, along with the carpet, and the furniture. Contemporary hues of fruity sorbets, whites and soft neutrals will add zest to any wardrobe, and there are earthy slate colours, denims and shades of stone and copper to add versatility. He turned around and met a pair of slate gray eyes. I could not see a town, not a road, only mountains, glacial valleys, a few icy blue lakes and rivers that from the air looked slate gray. The sky is the colour of slate grey and touching the roof tops. His head jolted up; his slate gray eyes stared longingly into my own. His slate gray eyes turned a dull black, and I closed my eyes in pain. Its cousin, the stunning kokako, is slate gray with sky-blue wattles decorating a black-masked face. At one moment, it was slate gray, the next an inky black. 4A list of candidates for election to a post or office, typically a group sharing a set of political views. （尤指分享一系列政治观点的团体内）提名名单，候选人名单 another slate of candidates will be picked for the state convention Example sentencesExamples At the end of 1951 the Free Officers ran their own slate of candidates for election to the board of directors of the Officers' Club in Cairo. That big view allows him to encompass and endorse both slates of candidates for the party's executive. And I was very proud, frankly of South Dakota this time, because they had a terrific slate of candidates for all the offices. We're putting together a slate of candidates to run together in the primaries next year for state legislature. Yawar opposed the boycott call and headed a slate of Sunni candidates in the election. Not surprisingly, they are on the only slate, at this writing, that is not in principle, opposed to tuition hikes and differential fees. To bolster its opposition credentials, the Socialist Caucus is standing a full slate of candidates for the party executive, including party leader. When all is said and done, each political ‘boss’ emerges unscathed and with a slate of candidates to call his or her own. Challenges to official director slates will likely be rare, but the mere threat of them could weigh heavily on management decisions. With six slates and 46 candidates for the board running in the election, candidates outnumbered audience members at each debate. Have you ever written to your slate or federal senators or representatives? The idea is to obtain a slate of national representatives who are a ‘mirror of the nation.’ The Greater London elections also saw a slate of socialists winning substantial votes. Under Illinois law the Green Party had only 90 days to collect the signatures and was also required to field a slate of candidates for every office on the ballot. The divisions and states with more than one representative to the Council of Representatives should designate ethnic-minority slates for at least one of the positions. First, for three consecutive terms the Concordia student population has elected slates of anti-capitalist representatives. An entire slate of candidates running in last week's student union election has been disqualified for gross violations of election rules. Nominating Committee members work together to prepare and present an annual slate of candidates for national office. The election for that Parliament has to be made from a complete slate of six candidates. As it is, the unions always run slates of candidates during the board's elections and hold caucus meetings before board meetings to discuss how teachers are going to vote. 4.1North American A range of something offered. 〈主北美〉一系列资助 the company has revealed details of a $60 million slate of film productions 这家公司透露了一项6，000万美元的电影制作资助的细节。 Example sentencesExamples The USMA Band and its ensembles can keep your toes tapping with a full slate of free public concerts and recitals throughout the year. BBC Television is investing in the biggest slate of emblematic, major projects in its history. The festival also featured a full slate of workshops and panels. Be prepared to see a whole slate of films next summer filmed in 3D! Presently we have a slate of another 19 films, which are all scheduled to be produced in Bulgaria over the next three years. He questions how many providers offering basically the same slate of services can exist in a market. I'd like to see a major studio take its slate down to 8 films a year… and have 6 significant moneymakers. Beneath these vastly newsworthy honours, however, is the same slate of police, army, foreign service, civil service and public service awards. The hallmark of the film festival this year was a slate of African films, heralding a mini-renaissance. Now in its third year, the Casa del Popolo's in-house music fest offers a slate of performers from around the world. He issues loans for slates of films at a studio - 5 to 15 at a time - not single flicks. The international future, then, offers up a whole slate of questions and requirements, and sets a steep agenda for preparing strategic leaders. The spring show will build on this success by kicking off the trade season with an entire slate of new records for number of buyers, exhibitors, scale, and selection. Ross and crew jumped in with a production slate of a dozen original films annually, a gambit that has paid off. HBO hasn't gone all out, but they have provided a decent slate of extra material that delves deeply into the roots of this show. The week after a slate of games, hats will be worn and old jerseys can be seen throughout the team complex - losers forced to dress in hostile colors against their own will. 5A board showing the identifying details of a take of a motion picture, which is held in front of the camera at its beginning and end. （置于摄影机前的）（识别一次电影拍摄镜头细节起讫的）开拍板 Example sentencesExamples The director of this film actually clapped the slate and then decided that these scenes were KEEPERS. The slate's most obvious purpose is the documentation it provides on what scene is being filmed, when it was filmed, what take it was, which film reel it was, etc. We ascend, our cameras out of film and our slates covered in a jumble of barely decipherable notes. This color cartoon clipart picture shows a woman holding a slate for a movie set, ready to clap the bar shut; the slate has a number "2" written on it, for take two. verbsleɪtslāt [with object] 1Cover (something, especially a roof) with slates. 用石板铺盖（某物，尤指屋顶） Example sentencesExamples The entire centre of the yard was covered and slated with a large open-ended platform at either end. The contractor shall inspect all surfaces prepared for slating. The roof will be slated and the front elevations will mostly be of natural stone, and each house has a large back garden. Roofs can be either tiled or slated. 2British informal Criticize severely. 〈英，非正式〉猛烈抨击，严厉批评 his work was slated by the critics 他的作品受到评论家的苛责。 Example sentencesExamples The bill was slated as a death sentence for several organisations working in the country. The design plans have been slated and the size and scale of the entire undertaking must be totally rethought. Although I admit to being one of those who'll slate a referee at a match, I also understand the enormous task they face once the whistle is blown. British car journalists slated the car, ‘but why?’ Browne slates the Catholic Church authorities for their failures. They both slated the referee, who, they claimed, was wrong to allow a goal scored by Dublin. Last December it was slated in a highly critical report released by the powerful Commons Treasury Select Committee. But the comedian, whose previews were unanimously slated by the critics last week, informed festival organisers that the show could not go on, for the time being at least. ‘The London premiere was slated by the critics for being propaganda, and it hasn't been performed since, but it has value,’ Osborne says. He says New Zealand is a country trying to promote itself as a leading golf destination, so the last thing the sport needs is its number one professional slating a leading course. Synonyms criticize harshly, attack, pillory, lambaste, condemn, flay, savage, shoot down, revile, vilify 3usually be slatedNorth American Schedule; plan. renovations are slated for late June 伦敦的演出定于6月下旬。 with infinitive construction is slated to begin late next year Example sentencesExamples Both games are slated to start at 8: 00 p.m. in the Physical Activities Centre. However, they expect some answers from the voluntary, two-year, nationwide monitoring program, which is slated to begin later this year. I arrived early enough to read the papers in time for the first interview, which was slated for recording at eleven. The three-year experimental program is slated to end this summer, and because of the state's tight budget situation, may not be renewed. At least four plays are slated to open this week… At press time, renovation work was slated to start on Nov.18, but McDonough expected some permitting delays. The initial native program was slated to last only two years, but Roger and staff have made a long-term commitment to keep the areas intact. The plan is slated to take effect for 2007 models. The city says the street was slated for repairs before the governor's appearance was scheduled. Why would it appear on the cover of an edition slated for the UK? Kelly's court appearance is slated for Jan. 30. As to settlement assets, there are 2,586 homes slated for evacuation, covering approximately 20 per cent of the land in Gaza. He said more Jacksonville stores are slated for renovations, but could not confirm which ones.… Not only that, her new boyfriend, one of the newspapermen from the train, seems to be enamored of the mysterious Sophia and is slated to cover the final event. The trade union federation is demanding that a list of 30 companies slated for closure be covered by a severance agreement. The day's schedule had us slated for just before lunch. Already more than half the population is covered by this Programme and full coverage is slated for 2005. The plan, slated for the go-ahead by the city, has been put on hold by the province. In the meantime, Edmund is slated to take his father's estate. The show is slated to be open sometime in November or December and will be in Mumbai as well as in Delhi, ‘he said.’ Synonyms schedule, set, set up, arrange, organize, sort out, fix, fix up, fix a time for, time, book, line up, slot in, prearrange, bill, programme, plan 3.1 Nominate (someone) as a candidate for an office or post. 〈主北美〉提（名），将（某人）定为人选 I understand that I am being slated for promotion 我知道我正被定为晋升的人选。 Example sentencesExamples The Nominations Committee has slated candidates for the position of Chair-elect and Secretary. That is important - he was twice slated for disqualification during the year (possibly meaning a life ban). That officer was slated to become the squadron leader before he died. The Democrats and Republicans slated their legislative candidates at the end of September or in early October, with the election scheduled for November 7. He is slated to lead depressed Argentina until elections for a new president in March. Well, last night I got an email saying that my application is selected and I'm slated to go look on a Cornell team for the ivory-billed woodpecker in early December. The criticism the Municipal Reform Club received from Republican circles for not endorsing Thomas and for slating a candidate to oppose Bash seemed to increase Thomas' confidence. I am slated to open an office in a prestigious location with a co-worker coming up in September. Neither is Powell slated to be the Attorney General, where he may choose the civil rights czar, who carves the policy groove on race in the Justice Department. I'm presently slated to moderate fourteen (!) panels, most of them about comic book history, and they're all goodies. 4Identify (a movie take) using a slate. 用镜头起讫板识别（镜头） Example sentencesExamples When one camera is slated, someone puts their hand over the lens of the other camera to block the view of the other camera's slate. Slate every shot, even if you are going direct into the camera. They discuss how to proceed, conduct run-throughs, slate shots, film the filming; and as they do so, you get to know these young people. Origin Middle English sclate, sklate, shortening of Old French esclate, feminine synonymous with esclat ‘piece broken off’ (see slat).
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