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How to pronounce “chalk”
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Pronunciation guide for chalk
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of chalk with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Wurst of Lucky Peach
BRANDON CHALK: I am.
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce chalk
Wurst of Lucky Peach
BRANDON CHALK: I am.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “chalk”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
- (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- Tailor's chalk.
- (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
- (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horse racing) The favorite in a sporting event.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
- [Verb]
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- (figurative) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
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