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chalk
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chalk
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n.
1.
a soft white limestone (calcium carbonate) formed from the skeletal remains of sea creatures.
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a similar substance (calcium sulfate), made into white or colored sticks used for drawing or writing.
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Geol.
a series of strata consisting mainly of chalk.
2. short for French chalk.
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v. [tr.]
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draw or write with chalk.
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draw or write on (a surface) with chalk.
2.
rub (something, esp. a pool cue) with chalk.
PHRASAL VERBS:
chalk something up
1.
achieve something noteworthy:
he has chalked up a box-office success.
2.
ascribe something to a particular cause:
I chalked my sleeplessness up to nerves.
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Chalk Media Corp. letter from the chairman.
M2 Presswire; 3/16/2007; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-16 March 2007-Chalk Media Corp.: Chalk Media Corp. letter from the chairman(C)1994-2007 M2...RDATE:15032007 Vancouver, BC, British Columbia CANADA - Chalk Media Corp. (CKM - TSX Venture), a leading provider of...
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Chalk Media Targets Sony Customers With a Lifelike Video Demonstration.
PR Newswire; 7/19/2002; 700+ words
; VANCOUVER -- Chalk Media Corp., today announced the results...demonstration of the projector-style television. Chalk Media's solution allowed recipients to...technology designed and built into the email by Chalk Media, allowed Sony to monitor the success...
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Chalk raises bar on rapid content development with latest version of eLearning software; chalkboard(TM) LCMS Version 4.1 allows for the swift creation of interactive activities.
M2 Presswire; 3/22/2007; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-22 March 2007-Chalk Media Corp.: Chalk raises bar on rapid content development with latest version...22032007 Vancouver, BC, British Columbia CANADA /FSC/ - Chalk Media Corp. (CKM - TSX Venture), a leading provider of...
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Chalk and Sympatico / MSN sign Strategic Alliance for video content; New lifestyle technology program connected life to stream exclusively on Sympatico.MSN.ca.
M2 Presswire; 3/16/2007; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-16 March 2007-Chalk Media Corp.: Chalk and Sympatico / MSN sign Strategic Alliance for video content...RDATE:15032007 Vancouver, BC/Toronto, Ontario CANADA - Chalk Media Corp. (CKM - TSX Venture), and Sympatico / MSN...
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Chalk announces expert series content alliance with Enable Network; Custom eLearning content will dispel employers' fears about hiring people with disabilities and enhance employment opportunities.
M2 Presswire; 1/11/2007; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-11 January 2007-Chalk Media Corp.: Chalk announces expert series content alliance with Enable Network...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11012007 Washington, DC US - Chalk Media Corp. (CKM - TSX Venture), today announces that...
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Chalk Media Corp. announces third quarter 2006 financial results.
M2 Presswire; 11/30/2006; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-30 November 2006-Chalk Media Corp.: Chalk Media Corp. announces third quarter 2006 financial results...LTD RDATE:29112006 Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA - Chalk Media Corp. (CKM - TSX Venture), ("Chalk") today...
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CHALK TALK
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/11/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...delivered a talk entitled "On a Piece of Chalk." His audience was the ordinary workingmen...audience may have carried a piece of Norwich chalk in their pockets. The town is built upon chalk, the same extensive beds of soft, white rock...
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Chalk it up: Smudge colors; add detail; admire. (Excuse the dust.).
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 5/9/2005; 700+ words
; ...is much better known for her commercial chalk murals in Flat Top Grill's nine restaurants...an artist," says Tham, 33. "I like chalk a lot, but my preferred medium is still...year for 10 painstaking days to work her chalk voodoo on Flat Top Grill's wall-size...
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Chalk Ink(R) Markers Launch at Michaels Stores, Inc. Nationwide.
PR Newswire; 5/17/2007; 700+ words
; Markers That Let You Sign, Decorate and Message with Chalk Ink Available May 18 AUSTIN, Texas, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Chalk Ink(R) launches its Chalk Ink Markers at Michaels Stores, Inc. nationwide in more than 900 stores...
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+(via+Knight-Ridder%2fTribune+Business+News) "South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)")
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Chalk's Ocean Airways tries to survive recent plane crash.
Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News); 12/22/2005; 700+ words
; ...people on Monday isn't likely to doom Chalk's Ocean Airways, which has a long history...aircraft and a checkered financial record, Chalk's has limited resources to draw on in...all have been able to pull through. But Chalk's has some advantages, including loyal...
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Chalk
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...stick in shellac to prevent the chalk from rubbing off onto the hands...Materials The main component of chalk is calcium carbonate (CaCO...plankton dies. The base of pastel chalks is calcium sulfate (CaSO 4...disseminated in limestone. Chalk and dehydrated gypsum thus have...
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chalk
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
chalk In geology the word ‘chalk’ is used in two senses: for a type of limestone...white cliffs of south-east England. (Blackboard ‘chalk’ is nowadays not chalk at all: it is in fact gypsum...
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Flying Boat, Inc. (Chalk’s Ocean Airways)
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
Flying Boat, Inc. (Chalk ’ s Ocean Airways...0329 Toll Free: (800) 4 CHALKS Web site: Private Company Incorporated: 1919 as Chalk ’ s Flying Service...business under the trade name Chalk ’ s Ocean Airways...
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chalk-stripe
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
chalk-stripe • adj. (of a garment or material) having a pattern of thin white stripes on a dark background. • n. ( chalk stripe ) a pattern of this kind. DERIVATIVES: chalk-striped adj.
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chalk-line
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
chalk-line. Cord impregnated with chalk used for laying down straight lines on material prior to cutting.
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