slate | (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate |
slate pencil | a pencil of soft slate (or soapstone) used for writing on a slate |
slate roof | a roof covered with slate |
slate ticket | a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices |
slate club | a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas) |
fresh start clean slate tabula rasa | an opportunity to start over without prejudice |
slate | a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers |
slate slating | thin layers of rock used for roofing |
slate | designate or schedule, He slated his talk for AM, She was slated to be his successor |
slate | cover with slate, slate the roof |
slate | enter on a list or slate for an election, He was slated for borough president |
colored coloured dark dark-skinned non-white | having skin rich in melanin pigments, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, dark-skinned peoples |
peachy peachy-colored peachy-coloured | of something resembling a peach in color |
slate-black | of a black tinged with slate-grey |
slate-grey slate-gray slaty-grey slaty-gray slaty slatey stone-grey stone-gray | of the color of slate or granite, the slaty sky of dawn |
colored coloured colorful | having color or a certain color, sometimes used in combination, colored crepe paper, the film was in color, amber-colored heads of grain |
brightly-colored brightly-coloured | having a bright color |
buff-colored buff-coloured | having a buff color |
chestnut-colored chestnut-coloured | having the brown color of chestnuts |
chocolate-colored chocolate-coloured | having the color of dark chocolate |
cinnamon colored cinnamon coloured cinnamon-colored cinnamon-coloured | having the color of cinnamon |
dark-colored dark-coloured dusky-colored dusky-coloured | having a dark color |
dun-colored dun-coloured | having a dun color |
fawn-colored fawn-coloured | having the color of a fawn |
flame-colored flame-coloured | having the brilliant orange-red color of flames |
flesh-colored flesh-coloured | having a bright red or pinkish color |
garnet-colored garnet-coloured | having the color of garnet |
gold-colored gold-coloured | having the color of gold |
honey-colored honey-coloured | having the color of honey |
lead-colored lead-coloured | having the color of lead |
metal-colored metal-coloured metallic-colored metallic-coloured | having a metallic color |
s motley calico multicolor multi-color multicolour multi-colour multicolored multi-colored multicoloured multi-coloured painted particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured | having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly, a jester dressed in motley, the painted desert, a particolored dress, a piebald horse, pied daisies |
neutral-colored neutral-coloured | having a color that does not attract attention |
olive-colored olive-coloured | having the color of green olives |
orange-colored orange-coloured orange-hued | having the color of ripe oranges |
straw-colored straw-coloured | having the color of dry straw |
tawny-colored tawny-coloured | having a tawny color |
violet-colored violet-coloured violet-flowered | having a violet color |
solid self-colored self-coloured | of the same color throughout, solid color |
bleached colored coloured dyed | (used of color) artificially produced, not natural, a bleached blonde |
biased colored coloured one-sided slanted | favoring one person or side over another, a biased account of the trial, a decision that was partial to the defendant |
solid-colored solid-coloured | having the same color all over |