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TOEFL BNC: 5988 COCA: 9095

chalk

Word family 
Related topics: Geology, Visual
chalk1 /tʃɔːk $ tʃɒːk/ ●○○ noun [uncountableU]  
1  HEGsoft white or grey rock formed a long time ago from the shells of small sea animals 白垩 SYN limestone
 chalk cliffs
白垩质峭壁
2  (also chalks [plural])AV small sticks of a white or coloured substance like soft rock, used for writing or drawing 粉笔
 a box of coloured chalks
一盒彩色粉笔
 a piece of chalk
一支粉笔
 writing in chalk on the blackboard
黑板上的粉笔字
3  chalk and cheese British EnglishBrEDIFFERENT completely different from each other 截然不同的
 The two brothers are as different as chalk and cheese.
这兄弟俩完全不一样。
 They’re like chalk and cheese, those two.
这两个有天壤之别。
Examples from the Corpus
chalk and cheese• We are chalk and cheese; our personalities are radically different and likely to abrade each other.• The two men are as different as chalk and cheese.• They are psychologically, spiritually and in personality as different as chalk and cheese.• This twin thing ... you are separate people, different as chalk and cheese.• They know that to compare that game to next Sunday's contest is to compare chalk and cheese.• Middlesbrough and East Cleveland are like chalk and cheese.
→ long chalk at long1(21)
Examples from the Corpus
chalk• She had no money for even a blackboard and chalk, or for the slates used commonly by village children.• He could smell the harsh carbolic soap of the orphanage, then the schoolroom with its dust and chalk.• Bats flittered about him; their warning squeaks sounded like chalk on a blackboard.• A long chalk from resort children.• It makes a fertile soil for crops since here it is a mixture of clay and small particles of chalk.• A taste for dirt or chalk.• The headmaster handed me the chalk.
chalk2 verb [transitiveT + up/on]  
1.WRITEto write, mark, or draw something with chalk 用粉笔写[标记，绘画]
2 chalk something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v 
a) SUCCEED IN DOING somethingto succeed in getting something, especially points in a game 赢得〔尤指比分〕；取得
 Seattle chalked up another win last night over Denver.
西雅图队昨晚击败了丹佛队，又取得了一场胜利。
b) RECORDto record what someone has done, what someone should pay etc 记下〔某人所做的事、所欠的账等〕
to
 You can chalk the drinks up to my account.
你可以把酒钱记到我的账上。
c) chalk it up to experience informalACCEPT to accept a failure or disappointment calmly and regard it as an experience that you can learn something from 平静地接受失败并从中吸取教训
Examples from the Corpus
chalk up• If no-one answered soon he would have to chalk it up as a wasted trip, and Montgomery would not be amused.• So chalk another one up for Hizzoner.• He chalks it up to being bored.• It is too easy just to chalk this struggle up to bureaucratic bungling.• After all, lose some bait and you can chalk it up to the charter rate.
chalk to• He chalks it up to being bored.• It is too easy just to chalk this struggle up to bureaucratic bungling.• After all, lose some bait and you can chalk it up to the charter rate.
Examples from the Corpus
chalk• Less ambitiously, simple networks can be chalked on to the playground.• Ford management chalked up its most significant coup over working practices in 1985 when 500 job titles were reduced to 58.• By the time I was involved the business had chalked up losses for many years and was in deep trouble.• Since then, Maxwell has chalked up three arrests in Houston.• Red has played a good half, sinking five of six field goals, grabbing four rebounds and chalking up three assists.• Now, abruptly, she could see that he imagined he'd chalked up yet another small victory.
From Longman Business Dictionary
chalkchalk /tʃɔːktʃɒːk/ verb
→ chalk up something
Origin chalk1
Old English cealc, from Latin calx ' → LIME12', from Greek chalix “small stone”
chalk1 nounchalk2 verb
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Corpus
TOEFL BNC: 5988 COCA: 9095
chalk

noun¹

 1white rock白堊CHALK + NOUN | PHRASES CHALK + NOUN➤bed白堊礦牀▸➤cliff, downs, hill (all especially BrE) 白堊峭壁／丘陵地／山丘▸➤pit, quarry白堊礦坑／開採場PHRASES➤chalk and cheese (BrE) 截然不同◇My two horses are as different as chalk and cheese.我的兩匹馬迥然不同。
chalk

noun²

 2piece of chalk粉筆ADJECTIVE | ... OF CHALK | CHALK + NOUN | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVE➤coloured/colored, white彩色粉筆；白粉筆◇a box of white chalks一盒白粉筆➤sidewalk (NAmE) 用於在街頭畫圖的粉筆... OF CHALK➤piece, stick一根／一支粉筆CHALK + NOUN➤drawing, line, mark, outline粉筆畫；粉筆線；粉筆記號；粉筆輪廓▸➤dust粉筆灰▸➤board (usually chalkboard) (especially NAmE) 黑板➤talk (NAmE) （在黑板上畫圖作說明的）圖示講解◇He gave a chalk talk on the techniques of making a sale.他作了一個推銷技巧的圖示演講。PREPOSITION➤in chalk用粉筆◇She had scrawled a note in chalk across the board.她用粉筆在黑板上草草地寫了個通知。➤with chalk用粉筆◇to write with chalk用粉筆寫字
TOEFL BNC: 5988 COCA: 9095
TOEFL BNC: 5988 COCA: 9095
chalk
Types of stone or rock: alabaster, basalt, chalk...
Artists' materials and equipment: acrylic, airbrush, brush...
To write something: write, set down, compose...

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