Lemon vs Chalk - What's the difference?
lemon | chalk |
A yellowish citrus fruit.
A semitropical evergreen tree, , that bears such fruits.
A taste or flavour/flavor of lemons.
A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
(slang) A defective or inadequate item.
Smart; cheeky, vocal.
* 2009 , (Caitlin Moran), ‘Why I love paying tax’, The Times , 12 Oct 2009:
favour, favor.
(fandom) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex (named after the erotic anime series (Cream Lemon) ).
Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.
(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
As a proper noun lemon
is .As a noun chalk is
(uncountable) a soft, white, powdery limestone.As a verb chalk is
to apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.lemon
English
(Citrus limon)Noun
(en noun)- He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon .
- Obviously Emin is not the first public figure to get lemon over tax increases.
- A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon , I could get it for half that.
Synonyms
* (defective item) bombDerived terms
(terms derived from lemon) * bitter lemon * lemon balm * lemon cheese * lemon chiffon * lemon chiffon pie * lemon crab * lemon curd * lemon drop * lemon grass * lemon juice * lemon law * lemon lime * lemon meringue pie * lemon myrtle * lemon soda * lemon sole * lemon squeezer * lemon squash * lemon thyme * lemon verbena * lemon vervain * lemon yellow * lemonade * lemonade berry * lemon-belly * lemongrass * lemon-squeezer * lemonySee also
* adverse selectionAdjective
(en adjective)See also
* citrine * citron * citronella * melissa * fever grass *Anagrams
* melonReferences
chalk
English
Alternative forms
* chaulk (dated)Noun
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Verb
(en verb)- (Mortimer)
- (Tennyson)
- Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.