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Slate meaning
A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers. | A piece of such stone, usually cut into a rectangular shape, used as a tile for flooring, roofing, etc.; (uncountable) such tiles collectively, or the material from which they are made. | A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers.
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Today we have a classic split-slate Saturday, with a 5-game early slate and a 10-game main slate on FanDuel.
The marketing manager will apply creative and innovative thinking to a disciplined process of constructing the market narrative for the Slate brand, Slate Live, and Slate Studios.
Slate fencing in Mid-Wales * Slate fence, a type of palisade made of vertical slabs of slate wired together.
Uses Slate roof Slate in buildings Mules carrying slate roof tiles on their backs.
An uncommitted slate backed by Middlesex County Democratic Chairman Nicholas Venezia won the two seats; the slate was purportedly for Hubert Humphrey or Jerry Brown.
One colleague, told I was writing about this book, joked that finally we would get the chance to find out if Slate readers cared about Taylor Lorenz as much as Slate staffers do.
Read about it in Slate: Slate's crossword editor Quiara Vasquez explains her homage to the famous Election Day 1996 crossword.
While an ambitious undertaking for any executive slate, our board is optimistic that it’s Better Slate Than Never’s time to shine.
A bunch of paste-eating morons putting on "My First Electoral College" costumes and declaring themselves a "dueling slate" does not actually make them a dueling slate of electors.
For Slate Plus, special guest and Slate staff writer Ruth Graham discusses her parenting dilemma that included a highly anticipated trip and … barf?
Following the interviews, the commission deliberated and selected a slate of three nominees from the group of applicants and delivered the slate to the Governor.
It’s unfortunate that the Progressive Revolution slate (and many of the decent names on the slate) has to be led by Olivia Navarro.
There's arguably nothing on Disney's 2020 slate (or beyond) that will compare to this year's slate.
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A major slating operation existed in Monson, Maine during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, where the slate is usually dark purple to blackish, and many local structures are still roofed with slate tiles.
A "slate boom" occurred in Europe from the 1870s until the first world war, allowed by the use of the steam engine in manufacturing slate tiles and improvements in the road and waterway transportation systems.
However, slate roofs are often expensive to install – in the USA, for example, a slate roof may have the same cost as the rest of the house.
Some of the slate from Wales and Cumbria is colored slate (non-blue): purple and formerly green in Wales and green in Cumbria.
The League of Negro Voters created a "Third Slate" of 59 candidates, announcing the slate on June 27, 1964.
The phrases "clean slate" and " blank slate " come from this usage.