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Chalk vs Insider - What's the difference?

chalk | insider |

As nouns the difference between chalk and insider

is that chalk is a soft, white, powdery limestone while insider is a person who has special knowledge about the inner workings of a group, organization, or institution.

As a verb chalk

is to apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.

chalk

English

Alternative forms

* chaulk (dated)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone.
  • (countable) A piece of chalk, or, more often, processed compressed chalk, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.
  • Tailor's chalk.
  • (uncountable, climbing) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk.
  • (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
  • (US, sports, chiefly, basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
  • * {{quote-news, 1982, March 22, Phil Musick, And the pick here is - Georgetown over Houston, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette citation
    • , passage=OK, let's get rid of the chalk' players right away. The ' chalk likes North Carolina. Dean Smith has taken Carolina to the Final Four six times.}}
  • * {{quote-news, 1995, April 6, , Notes on a Scorecard, Los Angeles Times citation
    • , passage=Excuse us for sticking with the chalk , but the predicted winners are Afternoon Deelites in the Derby, Oliver McCall over Larry Holmes, Nick Faldo in the Masters, and Al Unser Jr. in the Grand Prix.}}
  • * {{quote-news, 2008, March 24, Jason Bauman, Non-news of the week: Obama picks North Carolina, Beacon-News, city=Aurora, Illinois citation
    • , passage=Instead, he played the chalk and selected the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament.}}

    Verb

    (en 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.
  • (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
  • To manure (land) with chalk.
    • (Mortimer)
  • To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
    • (Tennyson)
  • * Herbert
    • Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.

    Derived terms

    * chalk up to * chalky * different as chalk and cheese * chalk line * by a long chalk

    Related terms

    * calcium * calx * chalkboard

    See also

    * (wikipedia) * *

    insider

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has special knowledge about the inner workings of a group, organization, or institution.
  • * 1923 , " ‘Big Board’ Failures," Time , 2 Jul.,
    • Heavy losses were sustained in Simms Petroleum, which took a greater toll from supposed "Wall Street insiders " than from the general public.
  • * 2007 , Jonathan Clayton, " Profile: Zuma charmed wives and a nation," Times of London (UK), 19 Dec.,
    • He is also an astute ANC insider who spent ten years on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela and the other “grandees” of the movement.
  • A person who is within an enclosed space.
  • * 1849 , (Herman Melville), Redburn: His First Voyage , ch. 33,
    • To the insider , the ceiling is like a small firmament twinkling with astral radiations.

    Derived terms

    * insider trading