Chalk vs. Crayon — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chalk and Crayon
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Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton which had fallen to the sea floor. Chalk is common throughout Western Europe, where deposits underlie parts of France, and steep cliffs are often seen where they meet the sea in places such as the Dover cliffs on the Kent coast of the English Channel.
Crayon
A crayon (or wax pastel) is a stick of pigmented wax used for writing or drawing. Wax crayons differ from pastels, in which the pigment is mixed with a dry binder such as gum arabic, and from oil pastels, where the binder is a mixture of wax and oil.
Chalk
A white soft earthy limestone (calcium carbonate) formed from the skeletal remains of sea creatures.
Crayon
A stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk, used for drawing.
Chalk
Short for French chalk
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Crayon
A drawing made with one of these sticks.
Chalk
Write or draw with chalk
He chalked a message on the board
Crayon
To draw, color, or decorate with a stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk.
Chalk
Charge (drinks bought in a pub or bar) to a person's account
He chalked the bill on to the Professor's private account
Crayon
A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
Chalk
A soft compact calcite, CaCO3, with varying amounts of silica, quartz, feldspar, or other mineral impurities, generally gray-white or yellow-white and derived chiefly from fossil seashells.
Crayon
A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
Chalk
A piece of chalk or chalklike substance in crayon form, used for marking on a blackboard or other surface.
Crayon
(dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
Chalk
(Games) A small cube of chalk used in rubbing the tip of a billiard or pool cue to increase its friction with the cue ball.
Crayon
(dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Chalk
A mark made with chalk.
Crayon
(ambitransitive) To draw with a crayon.
Chalk
Chiefly British A score or tally.
Crayon
An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
Chalk
To mark, draw, or write with chalk
Chalked my name on the blackboard.
Crayon
A crayon drawing.
Chalk
To rub or cover with chalk, as the tip of a billiard cue.
Crayon
A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Chalk
To make pale; whiten.
Crayon
To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out.
Chalk
To treat (soil, for example) with chalk.
Crayon
Writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
Chalk
(uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
Chalk cliffs are not recommended for climbing
Crayon
Write, draw, or trace with a crayon
Chalk
(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).
The chalk used to write on the blackboard makes a squeaky sound
Chalk
Tailor's chalk.
Chalk
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).
When working out your next move, it's a good idea to get some more chalk from the bag
Chalk
A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
Chalk
The favorite in a sporting event.
Chalk
The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
Chalk
To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
Chalk your hands before climbing
Chalk
To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
Chalk
To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
Chalk
(figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
Chalk
To manure (land) with chalk.
Chalk
To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
Chalk
A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.
Chalk
Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon.
Chalk
To rub or mark with chalk.
Chalk
To manure with chalk, as land.
Chalk
To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.
Chalk
A soft whitish calcite
Chalk
A pure flat white with little reflectance
Chalk
Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
Chalk
A piece of chalk (or similar substance) used for writing on blackboards or other surfaces
Chalk
Write, draw, or trace with chalk
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