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Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash
Jenny Slate (born March 25, 1982) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer. After early acting and stand-up roles on television, Slate gained
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States. It was created in 1996 by Michael Kinsley with Microsoft's
SLATE, a pioneer organization of the New Left and precursor of the Free Speech Movement and formative counterculture era, was a campus political party
Look up slate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Slate is a type of rock, often used for roofing. Slate may also refer to: Slate, Kansas, a ghost town
The Slate, or Blue Slate, is a breed of domestic turkey known for the slate gray color of its plumage. Lighter birds are sometimes called Lavender turkeys
The Slate Truck is an upcoming 2-door battery-electric compact pickup truck to be manufactured by Slate Auto. The model was revealed on April 24, 2025
The Slate Group, legally The Slate Group, LLC, is an American online publishing entity established in June 2008 by Graham Holdings Company. Among the publications
existence of a slate industry in Wales is attested since the Roman period, when slate was used to roof the fort at Segontium, now Caernarfon. The slate industry
A clapperboard, also known as a dumb slate, clapboard, film clapper, film slate, movie slate, or production slate, is a device used in filmmaking, television
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a slater, from Middle English slate ‘slate’.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant of Slater.
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English
English : variant of Lee.Scottish : reduced variant of McClay.French : habitational name from places so named in Loire, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Pyrénées-Atlantique.German : habitational name from places so named, in the Rhineland near Koblenz and in Bavaria, named with lay(h), a word meaning ‘stone’, ‘rock’, ‘slate’.
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English
English : variant of Slate.
Boy/Male
Australian, British, Chinese, English
Roof Slater
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German
German : occupational name for a roofer (thatcher, tiler, slater, or shingler) or a carpenter or builder, from an agent derivative of Middle High German decke ‘covering’, a word which was normally used to refer to roofs, but sometimes also to other sorts of covering; modern German Decke still has the twin senses ‘ceiling’ and ‘blanket’.Dutch : variant of Dekker, cognate with 1.English : variant of Dicker.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who constructed or repaired roofs, from an agent derivative of Middle English roof (Old English hrÅf). In the Middle Ages roofs might be thatched with reeds or straw, or covered with tiles, slates, or wooden shingles.German and English : nickname for an unscrupulous individual, from Middle Low German rÅver ‘pirate’, ‘robber’, Middle English rover. The English verb rove ‘to wander’ is probably a back-formation from this, and is not attested before the 16th century, so it is unlikely to lie behind any examples of the surname.German : variant of Röver (see Roever).
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English
English : occupational name for a roofer, from Old French co(u)vreur, an agent derivative of co(u)vrir ‘to cover’ (Latin cooperire). Roofing materials in the Middle Ages might be tiles (see Tyler), slates (see Slater), or thatch (see Thatcher), depending on the regional availability of suitable materials.English (of Norman origin) : occupational name for a maker of barrels and tubs, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French cuve ‘vat’, ‘tub’ (Late Latin cupa, of Germanic origin; compare Cooper).Americanized spelling of German Kober.
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : occupational name from Middle English pointer ‘point maker’, an agent derivative of point, a term denoting a lace or cord used to fasten together doublet and hose (Old French pointe ‘point’, ‘sharp end’). Reaney suggests that in some cases Pointer may have been an occupational name for a tiler or slater whose job was to point the tiles, i.e. render them with mortar where they overlapped.Possibly an altered form of German Pointner, a variant of Bainter.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a slater, from an agent derivative of Middle English s(c)late ‘slate’.
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English
English : variant of Lye.French : habitational name from Ley in Moselle.French and German : from a medieval personal name, Eloy (Latin Eligius, a derivative of eligere ‘to choose or elect’), made popular by a 6th-century saint who came to be venerated as the patron of smiths and horses.German (Rhineland) : topographic name from Middle High German leie ‘rock’, ‘stone’, ‘slate’, or a habitational name from any of several places named with this word. Compare Leier.
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English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : unexplained. Compare Slaten.
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English
English : unexplained. Compare Slaton.
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American, Australian, Christian, Danish, French, German, Greek
Bringer of Good News; Like an Angel
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English
English : variant of Grace.
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Australian, Celtic, Gaelic, Latin
Gaelic Form of Grizel
Girl/Female
Arabic
Person; Individual; Soul
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Tamil
The quiet one, The learned one
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Hebrew
Raindrop.
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Irish
Renowned; noble.
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Hindu, Indian
Wisdom
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German
Peace
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Indian, Telugu
Lord of Lakshmi; Beautiful; Money
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n.
Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes.
a.
Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal.
n.
A shingle; also, a slate for roofing.
v. t.
To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
n.
One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
n.
A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
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A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
n.
A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.
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A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
a.
Of a slate color.
v. t.
To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.
v. t.
To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.
imp. & p. p.
of Slate
a.
Of a dark gray, like slate.
n.
A variety of blue slate.
n.
Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.
v. t.
An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.
n.
The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.