chalk

noun

/tʃɔːk/

Idioms

[uncountable] a type of soft white stone白垩
- the chalk cliffs of southern England英格兰南部的白垩质峭壁
Topics Physics and chemistryc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
chalk + noun
- bed
- cliff
- downs
- …
phrases
- chalk and cheese
[uncountable, countable] a substance similar to chalk made into white or coloured sticks for writing or drawing（白色或彩色的）粉笔
- a piece/stick of chalk一支粉笔
- drawing diagrams with chalk on the blackboard用粉笔在黑板上画图表
- a box of coloured chalks一盒彩色粉笔
Extra Examples
- She had scrawled a note in chalk across the blackboard.她用粉笔在黑板上潦草地写了个通知。
- to write with chalk用粉笔写字
Topics Educationc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- coloured/colored
- white
- sidewalk
- …
… of chalk
- piece
- stick
chalk + noun
- drawing
- line
- mark
- …
preposition
- in chalk
- with chalk

Word OriginOld English cealc (also denoting lime), related to Dutch kalk and German Kalk, from Latin calx, ‘lime’, probably from Greek khalix ‘pebble, limestone’.

Idioms

chalk and cheese

(British English) if two people or things are like chalk and cheese or as different as chalk and cheese, they are completely different from each other截然不同；天渊之别
- Frank and I will never get along. We’re chalk and cheese.弗兰克和我永远不会和睦相处。我们是粉笔和奶酪。
- My two horses are as different as chalk and cheese.我的两匹马迥然不同。
More Like This Alliteration in idioms
Alliteration in idioms
- belt and braces
- black and blue
- born and bred
- chalk and cheese
- chop and change
- done and dusted
- down and dirty
- in dribs and drabs
- eat somebody out of house and home
- facts and figures
- fast and furious
- first and foremost
- forgive and forget
- hale and hearty
- hem and haw
- kith and kin
- mix and match
- part and parcel
- puff and pant
- to rack and ruin
- rant and rave
- risk life and limb
- short and sweet
- signed and sealed
- spic and span
- through thick and thin
- this and that
- top and tail
- tried and tested
- wax and wane

not by a long chalk (British English)

(also not by a long shot North American English, British English)

not nearly; not at all完全不；根本没有
- It's not over yet—not by a long chalk.这事还没有了结，还差得远呢。

chalk

verb

/tʃɔːk/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they chalk	/tʃɔːk/ /tʃɔːk/
he / she / it chalks	/tʃɔːks/ /tʃɔːks/
past simple chalked	/tʃɔːkt/ /tʃɔːkt/
past participle chalked	/tʃɔːkt/ /tʃɔːkt/
-ing form chalking	/ˈtʃɔːkɪŋ/ /ˈtʃɔːkɪŋ/

Idioms Phrasal Verbs

chalk something (up) (on something) to write or draw something with chalk用粉笔写（或画）
- She chalked (up) the day’s menu on the board.她把当天的菜单用粉笔写在黑板上。
- A message was chalked on the door—‘Back at 11 o’clock.’门上用粉笔写了一条信息——“十一点钟回来。”
- a chalked outline of a human body人体的粉笔轮廓
- The scores were chalked up on the wall.分数被粉笔写在墙上。
Word OriginOld English cealc (also denoting lime), related to Dutch kalk and German Kalk, from Latin calx, ‘lime’, probably from Greek khalix ‘pebble, limestone’.

Idioms

chalk something up to experience

(also put something down to experience)

used to say that somebody should think of a failure as being something that they can learn from从…中吸取教训
- We lost a lot of money, but we just chalked it up to experience.我们损失了很多钱，但我们只是把它归结为经验。