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SLATE
- to cover with rock [v SLATED, SLATING, SLATES]
- to cover with slate (a roofing material) [v SLATED, SLATES, SLATING]
- kind of rock that splits horizontally
- thin piece of slate
- list of candidates
- to cover with slates
- unsullied record; record marked by creditable conduct
- dark purplish gray
- a piece of construction material (as laminated rock) prepared as a shingle for roofing and siding
- dense fine-grained metamorphic rock produced by the compression of various sediments (as clay or shale) so as to develop a characteristic cleavage
- tablet (as of slate) used for writing on
- written or unwritten record (as of deeds) started with a clean slate
- list of candidates for nomination or election