(n.) A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground.
(n.) The sole of a plow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phyllis Gardner, a Slade school art student and suffragette with flaming red hair, fell in love with Brooke while sitting opposite him on the Great Northern train to Cambridge.
(2) Lawrence Slade, the chief executive of Energy UK, which represents the big six providers and has been regarded as a defender of fossil fuels, said the shift was urgent in order not to be left behind.
(3) She moved to London in the 50s and trained as a painter at the Slade.
(4) The winning feature about being represented by Martha Costello is the fact that she's followed about by her ridiculously aesthetically pleasing "pupil" Nick Slade (Tom Hughes).
(5) This exhibition about the glam rock era contains several huge photographs of me with the rest of Slade.
(6) The book is dedicated to her son, Slade, who died 18 months ago and in the face of whose death she found herself wordless.
(7) Three of the staff who had already given evidence had been working there when this happened, and hadn’t mentioned it.” A document disclosed at the inquest showed an action plan had been written following an incident at Slade House in 2004, stating “the baths should be removed because they were therapeutic and too deep – hence not fit for purpose”.
(8) Could the reason be lan's unconscious rapport with the audience in the tradition of Slade, Smiths and, er, Sham 69 – one of those you-could-be-up-here-too types of groups that are so typically British?
(9) The consultant who admitted him said, in his view, Connor was dead by the time the rescue people got there – but Southern Health didn’t even have the guts to say it was urgent.” At the inquest, it emerged that the tone of the 999 call made from Slade House was so vague, the operator initially said they would book Connor in for a four-hour ambulance response.
(10) Augustus was going to the Slade School of Fine Art - and because he went, she went too.
(11) Amid concern about the lights going out, 60 local authorities argued last week that coal-fired power stations should be kept open, but Slade surprisingly disagrees, saying we need lower-carbon solutions.
(12) In the first study 40 pregnant women, at approximately 4 month's duration, were found to overestimate their bodily dimensions, albeit to a lesser extent than the previously tested group of anorexia nervosa patients (Slade & Russell, 1973a).
(13) In September 2013, six weeks after Connor died, the Care Quality Commission visited Slade House , and failed it on all 10 counts it inspected: there was no battery in the defibrillator, no oxygen in the oxygen tank, no therapeutic interactions, there were traces of faeces in the furniture, medicines were out of date – and on it went.
(14) asks Peter Slade The answer to this one is nearly as simple as David Beckham.
(15) Lawrence Slade, the chief executive of the trade body Energy UK, accused the Conservatives of “giving up on competition”.
(16) "Savers' money was in high demand during 2009, leading many banks and building societies to offer rates as much as 10 times the base rate," said Michelle Slade, spokeswoman at Moneyfacts.co.uk.
(17) "All the partners and staff are immensely grateful to Jon for his outstanding contribution to Alchemy," Slade said. "
(18) It was a non-event in the first half, there wasn’t much in it,” Slade said.
(19) Friend, Patric L. (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.), and Hutton D. Slade.
(20) He pulled himself together as a wryly observant Larry Slade in one of the landmark productions of the past 20 years: O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida in 1998, transferring to the Old Vic, and to Broadway, with Kevin Spacey as the salesman Hickey revisiting the last chance saloon where Pigott-Smith propped up the bar with Rupert Graves , Mark Strong and Clarke Peters in Davies’ great production.
Slate
Definition:
(v. t.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.
(v. t.) Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
(v. t.) A prepared piece of such stone.
(v. t.) A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.
(v. t.) A tablet for writing upon.
(v. t.) An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.
(v. t.) A thin plate of any material; a flake.
(v. t.) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.
(v. t.) To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
(v. t.) To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.
(v. t.) To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) The slate was wiped clean “as far as I am concerned”, Corbyn added, before taking a swipe at the alleged purge of some of his supporters over comments made on Twitter.
(2) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
(3) Joe Muto, Slate The Newsroom can be read as Sorkin's attempt to cure what's ailing the news industry, but he's misdiagnosing the patient.
(4) They were apparently trying to promote a healthy lifestyle to the Russian public, but Muscle and Fitness magazine slated the president’s technique: “his cable crossover form is crap”.
(5) The Hill reports : Senate Republicans elected a slate of white men to their top five leadership positions on Wednesday, and some GOP lawmakers feared the House would follow suit at a time when Republicans have said they need to find ways to reach out to women and minorities.
(6) Some establishment party figures have blamed the event for prematurely narrowing the field and forcing candidates to compete in what top GOP strategist David Kochel (now slated to be Jeb Bush’s national campaign manager) once called “a goat rodeo”.
(7) While we do expect some significant strength in the top two to three spots in 2015,” he wrote, “we are not convinced that the overall slate is going to drive performance that is significantly better than what we have generally seen over the past four years.” He also fears that the rise in superhero blockbusters is going to lead to disaster for some studios, in the same way that a wider pool of animated films has led to some casualties, with underwhelming receipts for Penguins of Madagascar and Mr Peabody & Sherman most recently.
(8) For now, we can't tell, but the Moritz-Heyman scholarships will help us find out by creating a group of graduates who will start on the career ladder with a near-clean slate.
(9) The conviction was subsequently wiped from his record under German clean-slate legislation.
(10) David Fincher was originally slated to direct the project , but Boyle manages to put his own distinct imprint on it: the film has Boyle’s characteristic frenetic energy, and boasts colourful visuals.
(11) Besides, Corbyn wanted to wipe the slate clean – though he was not yet ready to explain what steps he would take to do so – and to remind the party that there was more that united it than divided it.
(12) He was slated to give a commencement speech at his alma mater in 2013, but withdrew after controversy arose in wake of his remarks comparing same-sex marriage to pedophilia.
(13) That panel is slated to deliver final recommendations as early as this month, although it may slip into the new year.
(14) There are a number of things that need to be repealed, but I think what we need to focus on first is what would we replace it with,” Alexander told Slate about a week after the election.
(15) The French unit also has proposals for a new film from Dutch genre icon Paul Verhoeven and a remake of 1988 cult horror Maniac Cop on its slate for Cannes.
(16) These are slated to move from London to the new Media City development by 2011.
(17) I have now left the defence force with a clean slate.
(18) The policy was known as “contraction” and it was slated to shut down two clubs, the other being the Minnesota Twins, a team that is thriving years after the policy foundered.
(19) A restaurant firm slated to open an outlet in Trump’s new Washington DC hotel complained that the remarks were damaging to them.
(20) His papers, which are stored in more than 200 slate-grey boxes, describe fascinating connections to a roll call of the great and the good: Shirley Williams, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, Henry Kissinger, Trevor Huddleston, Nelson Mandela , Anthony Crosland, Michael Heseltine, Ted Heath, John Cleese, David Cornwell (John le Carré) and many more.