Chalk vs. Keel

Chalknoun

(uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone.

Chalknoun

(countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.

Chalknoun

Tailor's chalk.

Chalknoun

A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk.

Chalknoun

A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.

Chalknoun

The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.

Chalkverb

To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.

Chalkverb

To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.

Chalkverb

To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.

Chalkverb

(figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.

Chalkverb

To manure (land) with chalk.

Chalkverb

To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.

Chalknoun

A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

Chalknoun

Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon.

Chalkverb

To rub or mark with chalk.

Chalkverb

To manure with chalk, as land.

Chalkverb

To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.

Chalknoun

a soft whitish calcite

Chalknoun

a pure flat white with little reflectance

Chalknoun

amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

Chalknoun

a piece of chalk (or similar substance) used for writing on blackboards or other surfaces

Chalkverb

write, draw, or trace with chalk

Chalknoun

a white soft earthy limestone (calcium carbonate) formed from the skeletal remains of sea creatures.

Chalknoun

a substance (calcium sulphate) that is similar to chalk, made into white or coloured sticks for writing or drawing.

Chalknoun

a series of strata consisting mainly of chalk.

Chalknoun

short for French chalk

Chalkverb

write or draw with chalk

Chalkverb

draw or write on (a surface) with chalk

Chalkverb

rub the tip of (a snooker cue) with chalk.

Chalkverb

charge (drinks bought in a pub or bar) to a person's account

Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton which had fallen to the sea floor. Chalk is common throughout Western Europe, where deposits underlie parts of France, and steep cliffs are often seen where they meet the sea in places such as the Dover cliffs on the Kent coast of the English Channel.

Keelverb

To cool; to skim or stir.

Keelverb

To traverse with a keel; to navigate.

Keelverb

To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

Keelnoun

A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.

Keelnoun

A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.

Keelnoun

Fig.: The whole ship.

Keelnoun

A barge or lighter, used on the Tyne for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.

Keelnoun

The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.

Keelnoun

A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.

Keelnoun

In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aëroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.

Keelnoun

the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly

Keelnoun

one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability

Keelverb

walk as if unable to control one's movements;

Keelnoun

the lengthwise timber or steel structure along the base of a ship, supporting the framework of the whole, in some vessels extended downwards as a ridge to increase stability.

Keelnoun

a ship

Keelnoun

a ridge along the breastbone of many birds to which the flight muscles are attached; the carina.

Keelnoun

a prow-shaped pair of petals present in flowers of the pea family.

Keelnoun

a flat-bottomed boat of a kind formerly used on the Tyne and Wear Rivers for loading ships carrying coal.

Keelverb

(of a boat or ship) turn over on its side; capsize

Keelverb

(of a person or thing) fall over; collapse

Keel

The keel is the bottom-most longitudinal structural element on a vessel. On some sailboats, it may have a hydrodynamic and counterbalancing purpose, as well.