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Quote:I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -- the longer, the better -- from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.[Charles Dickens]

Quote:A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.[Bertrand Russell]



Definitions of: slate

Definition: An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.

Definition: Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.

Definition: A prepared piece of such stone.

Definition: A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.

Definition: A tablet for writing upon.

Definition: An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.

Definition: A thin plate of any material; a flake.

Definition: A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.

Definition: To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.

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