(n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To rub or mark with chalk.
(v. t.) To manure with chalk, as land.
(v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
Example Sentences:
(1) The young screenwriters possibly needed to have chalked up a few miles before they could deliver really workable scripts."
(2) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(3) His flicked header into the net seconds later, chalked off by an offside flag, confirmed the forward's luck was not in.
(4) Inside the first 10 minutes, Boyd hit the bar and Lukas Jutkiewicz saw a goal correctly chalked off for offside, while Danny Ings headed just wide at 2-1, and substitute Ashley Barnes struck the bar late on.
(5) France chalked up growth of 0.5%, beating economists' expectations, the best growth figures Fran ç ois Hollande has seen since he was elected president 15 months ago.
(6) 2) If the board and adjacent ones are firmly fixed, dust talc or chalk through the cracks to stop them rubbing together.
(7) The phrase chalk and cheese springs to mind, or as the French say jour et nuit – day and night.
(8) Remember the Theater People: the gal rigging lights for her community theater's production of The Chalk Garden in Brainerd, Minnesota.
(9) The house was later covered in chalk and finally became a curious white landmark.
(10) It is recommended that overall average and chalk carving be given equal emphasis in the selection process.
(11) HS2’s barrister, James Strachan QC, was listening closely, however, and addressed specific points with a lawyer’s care to make no rash promises: HS2’s noise would be less than traffic on the A413; HS2 were working with the RSPB to “mitigate” for barn owls; and, “If there’s a need for chalk grassland, that’s the sort of thing that can be put into these areas to compensate.” Wendy Gray was allowed to respond: “It’s very difficult to be reassured on an unknown quantity,” she said.
(12) According to the sonographic pattern and to the scintigraphic imaging the focal lesions were analysed as micro- or macrofollicular adenomas, autonomous adenomas, cysts and chalk.
(13) Shortly after arriving in Rome, Las Vegas and Tallinn, however, the lines of gameless resolve I had chalked across my mind were wiped clean.
(14) The economy is forecast to chalk up only 0.75% growth this year, and to contract by 1% in 2009 - which would be the first full year of contraction since 1991.
(15) Look, Newsnight is made by 13-year-olds,” he said, speaking at the Chalke Valley history festival about his new book on the first world war.
(16) A series of 75 spoilt soft lenses with opacities (mostly manifesting as discrete spots or as large areas of cloudiness, chalk-white in appearance) were subjected to histochemical, electron microscopical, electron probe x-ray microanalytical, x-ray diffraction, atomic absorption spectro-photometric, and biochemical analyses.
(17) A suspension of chalk powder was injected into the cavity of the urinary bladder of Fischer 344 rats.
(18) The reactivity of soils varies widely as geological and sedimentological conditions offer typical but different environments: gravels, chalk soil, clay, salt soils, sands, cave earths are examples of this wide variety, including atmospheric and biogenetic implications.
(19) A staircase descends steeply into a network of tunnels and cellars that lead to extraordinary old chalk pits.
(20) Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian But to date, the prospect of building on abandoned north Kent chalk quarries, has been so unattractive to housebuilders that they have delivered homes at the rate of just 25 a year when 1,000 a year are needed.
Princess
Definition:
(n.) A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince.
(n.) The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family.
(n.) The consort of a prince; as, the princess of Wales.
Example Sentences:
(1) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(2) One hundred cases of histologically proven corneal and conjunctival tumours were extracted from the records at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and from the senior author's private practice in the last ten years.
(3) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(4) As a suitor for the hand of a beautiful princess, you’ll have to overcome the royal family, the palace guards and rival players to deliver your love letter.
(5) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
(6) I tell her she could be a princess who goes out to work.
(7) Princess Anne is also in evidence, currently watching the ice skating clad in a Team GB Russian-style fur hat, but I have no picture to show you.
(8) Whether you are a princess or a queen you are here in Europe and you must work as a prostitute’.
(9) Her worries were confirmed hours later, when Manuel Delgado, another lawyer emerged from the courtroom during a recess and declared "the princess came very prepared to evade any questions".
(10) He was at the forefront of a number of big stories, managing to break some of the key revelations contained in Andrew Morton's book about Princess Diana before the Sunday Times, which had bought the serialisation rights, could publish them.
(11) The judge said putting the princess on the stand would remove "any shadow of suspicion" that she is receiving special treatment, El Pais reported.
(12) The Geriatric Assessment and Rehabilitation Unit (ARU) and acute general medical wards of the Princess Margaret Hospital made little use of the specialised Diabetes Services for help in managing known or newly diagnosed diabetics.
(13) A n exhibition of Princess Diana’s old dresses, at Kensington Palace , is the inaugural event in the 20th anniversary of her death, aged 36, in 1997.
(14) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(15) There are strong indications that Episode VII will centre on the key trio of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo, played by original stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford.
(16) Still under wraps A 1978 cabinet paper by Tony Benn arguing for more openness and greater public accountability for the work of the security services A 1978 Downing Street file on "the alleged penetration of the security services" A 1978 Downing Street file on the constitutional and financial implications of the divorce of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon
(17) A letter from Willetts to the prime minister claims the idea has the support of both the Prince of Wales and Princess Anne.
(18) According to Peter Biskind's book, Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film, famous examples include Shaolin Soccer, Hero and Princess Mononoke.
(19) Its takeover of Princess Royal University hospital in Kent in October 2013 had hit its balance sheet, it said.
(20) Although there has been no official confirmation of the ruling, Princess Amira al-Taweel, wife of the Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, tweeted: "Thank God, the lashing of [Shaima] is cancelled.