OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2064

slate

/sleɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pizarra
A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers.
In 1765 only 80 men were employed, and the annual output of slates did not exceed 1,000 tons, and large-scale quarrying was not begun by Lord Penrhyn until 1782.
Some of the minor Welsh 2 ft. gauge railways, we hear from Mr. N. F. G. Dalston, are enjoying a miniature boom owing to the demand for slate for the repair of damaged roofs.
pizarra
A generally rectangular piece, originally of certain types of stone and now of other materials, often in a frame, used for writing on with a thin rod of the same or another stone (a slate pencil) or with chalk; a small chalkboard.
He wrote all down one side of the slate and all up the other, and then remarked--"As there's no time to finish that, The time has come to have our chat."
cuenta
A record, for example, of money owed.
Put it on my slate—I’ll pay you next week.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 2065

slate

/sleɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
destinar
To write (something) on a writing slate (noun etymology 1, sense 2.1).
The next version of our software is slated to be the best release ever.
fechar • fijar • programar
To write (something) on a writing slate (noun etymology 1, sense 2.1).
The Cleethorpes to Barton-on-Humber branch had been slated to transfer from Northern into the East Midlands franchise, but this move is still awaiting a DfT decision.
The election was slated for November 2nd.
📚 verb • entry_id 2066

slate

/sleɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
criticar duramente • vapulear • vituperar
To scold (someone) harshly; to chastise, to excoriate, to lambaste.
It makes me mad to hear that wretched Mouse, when he wants to slate a very good novel, declare that there is no romance in real life.
The play was slated by the critics.