Chalk vs Large - What's the difference?
chalk | large |
(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
, 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
, 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
, passage=Instead, he played the chalk and selected the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament.}}
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.
To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
* Herbert
Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.}}
(obsolete) Abundant; ample.
* Milton
(archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
* Felton
(obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
* Fairfax
(obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
* Shakespeare
(nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.
(music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
(obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
A thousand dollars.
As nouns the difference between chalk and large
is that chalk is (uncountable) a soft, white, powdery limestone while large is (music|obsolete) an old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.As a verb chalk
is to apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.As an adjective large is
of considerable or relatively great size or extent.chalk
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Alternative forms
* chaulk (dated)Noun
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Verb
(en verb)- (Mortimer)
- (Tennyson)
- Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.
Derived terms
* chalk up to * chalky * different as chalk and cheese * chalk line * by a long chalkSee also
* (wikipedia) * *large
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Adjective
(er)- We have yet large day.
- I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.
- Of burdens all he set the Paynims large .
- Some large jests he will make.
Synonyms
(checksyns) * big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous, stour, great, mickle, largeish * See alsoAntonyms
* small, tiny, minusculeDerived terms
* as large as life, larger than life * by and large * enlarge * give it large * have it large * large it, large up, large it up * largely * largeness * writ large * largishNoun
- Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large .
