Chalk vs. Keel

Chalknoun

(uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone.

Keelverb

To cool; to skim or stir.

‘While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.’;

Chalknoun

(countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.

Keelverb

To traverse with a keel; to navigate.

Chalknoun

Tailor's chalk.

Keelverb

To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

Chalknoun

A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk.

Keelnoun

A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.

Chalknoun

A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.

Keelnoun

A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.

Chalknoun

The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.

Keelnoun

Fig.: The whole ship.

Chalkverb

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

Keelnoun

A barge or lighter, used on the Tyne for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.

Chalkverb

To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.

Keelnoun

The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.

Chalkverb

To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.

Keelnoun

A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.

Chalkverb

(figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.

Keelnoun

In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aëroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.

Chalkverb

To manure (land) with chalk.

Keelnoun

the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly

Chalkverb

To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.

Keelnoun

one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability

Chalknoun

A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

Keelverb

walk as if unable to control one's movements;

‘The drunken man staggered into the room’;

Chalknoun

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.

Keelnoun

the lengthwise timber or steel structure along the base of a ship, supporting the framework of the whole, in some vessels extended downwards as a ridge to increase stability.

Chalkverb

To rub or mark with chalk.

Keelnoun

a ship

‘to buy a new keel with my gold, And fill her with such things as she may hold’;

Chalkverb

To manure with chalk, as land.

Keelnoun

a ridge along the breastbone of many birds to which the flight muscles are attached; the carina.

Chalkverb

To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.

‘Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.’;

Keelnoun

a prow-shaped pair of petals present in flowers of the pea family.

Chalknoun

a soft whitish calcite

Keelnoun

a flat-bottomed boat of a kind formerly used on the Tyne and Wear Rivers for loading ships carrying coal.

Chalknoun

a pure flat white with little reflectance

Keelverb

(of a boat or ship) turn over on its side; capsize

‘it's going to take more wind to make this boat keel over’;

Chalknoun

amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

Keelverb

(of a person or thing) fall over; collapse

‘a wardrobe was about to keel over on top of him’;

Chalknoun

a piece of chalk (or similar substance) used for writing on blackboards or other surfaces

Keel

The keel is the bottom-most longitudinal structural element on a vessel. On some sailboats, it may have a hydrodynamic and counterbalancing purpose, as well.

Chalkverb

write, draw, or trace with chalk

Chalknoun

a white soft earthy limestone (calcium carbonate) formed from the skeletal remains of sea creatures.

Chalknoun

a substance (calcium sulphate) that is similar to chalk, made into white or coloured sticks for writing or drawing.

Chalknoun

a series of strata consisting mainly of chalk.

Chalknoun

short for French chalk

Chalkverb

write or draw with chalk

‘he chalked a message on the board’;

Chalkverb

draw or write on (a surface) with chalk

‘blackboards chalked with Japanese phrases’;

Chalkverb

rub the tip of (a snooker cue) with chalk.

Chalkverb

charge (drinks bought in a pub or bar) to a person's account

‘he chalked the bill on to the Professor's private account’;

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.