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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
chalk /tʃɔk/USA pronunciation   n. [uncountable]
  1. Geology, Mineralogya soft, white, powdery substance made of limestone.
  2. a solid piece of chalk or chalklike substance for marking or writing on a blackboard.

v. [~ + object]
  1. to apply with chalk:He chalked a few numbers on the blackboard.
  2. chalk up,
    • [~ + up + object] to score or earn, such as points in a game: gain:chalked up several victories in a row pitching for the Tigers.
    • [~ + up + object + to + object] to give as a reason;
      attribute:Chalk up that bad episode to lack of experience.[ ~ + obj + up + to + obj]:Chalk it up to lack of experience.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
chalk  (chôk),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Geology, Mineralogya soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
  2. a prepared piece of chalk or chalklike substance for marking, as a blackboard crayon.
  3. a mark made with chalk.
  4. a score or tally.

v.t. 
  1. to mark or write with chalk.
  2. to rub over or whiten with chalk.
  3. to treat or mix with chalk:to chalk a billiard cue.
  4. to make pale;
    blanch:Terror chalked her face.

v.i. 
  1. Building, Fine Art(of paint) to powder from weathering.
  2. chalk up:
    • to score or earn:They chalked up two runs in the first inning.
    • to charge or ascribe to:It was a poor performance, but may be chalked up to lack of practice.

adj. 
  1. of, made of, or drawn with chalk.
  • Latin calc- (stem of calx) lime
  • Middle English chalke, Old English cealc bef. 900
chalk′like′, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
chalk / tʃɔːk/
  1. a soft fine-grained white sedimentary rock consisting of nearly pure calcium carbonate, containing minute fossil fragments of marine organisms, usually without a cementing material
  2. a piece of chalk or a substance like chalk, often coloured, used for writing and drawing on a blackboard
  3. as alike as chalk and cheese, as different as chalk and cheese ⇒ totally different in essentials
  4. by a long chalk ⇒ by far
  5. not by a long chalk ⇒ by no means; not possibly
  6. (modifier) made of chalk
  1. to draw or mark (something) with chalk
  2. (transitive) to mark, rub, or whiten with or as if with chalk
Etymology: Old English cealc, from Latin calx limestone, from Greek khalix pebbleˈchalkˌlikeˈchalkyˈchalkiness

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