Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Composed of or resembling slate.
- adjective Having the color of slate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling slate; having the nature or properties of slate: as, a slaty color or texture; a slaty feel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting.
- adjective (Min.) cleavage, as of rocks, into thin leaves or plates, like those of slate; -- applied especially to those cases in which the planes of cleavage are not parallel to the planes of stratification. It is now believed to be caused by the compression which the strata have undergone.
- adjective (Min.) a variety of gneiss in which the scales of mica or crystals of hornblende, which are usually minute, form thin laminæ, rendering the rock easily cleavable.
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- adjective Resembling the mineral
slate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the color of slate or granite
Etymologies
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Examples
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This cleavage is known as slaty cleavage, since it is most perfectly developed in fine-grained, homogeneous rocks, such as slates, which cleave to the thin, smooth-surfaced plates with which we are familiar in the slates used in roofing and for ciphering and blackboards.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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Like all the others I had recently examined, it was composed principally of quartz, ironstone and a kind of slaty rock; the low hills in front exhibiting the grey limestone, whilst patches of gum scrub were observable in many places.
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Like all the others I had recently examined, it was composed principally of quartz, ironstone and a kind of slaty rock; the low hills in front exhibiting the grey limestone, whilst patches of gum scrub were observable in many places.
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Like all the others I had recently examined, it was composed principally of quartz, ironstone and a kind of slaty rock; the low hills in front exhibiting the grey limestone, whilst patches of gum scrub were observable in many places.
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No boats are passing upstream towards Devonport dockyard and the sheltered water of the Hamoaze, but a lone heron stands on the slaty foreshore.
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At one end of the miles of beach the sea is silvery grey, but along its length it deepens in tone and changes in colour until by the time it reaches the other end it is a deep slaty green.
Country diary: South Uist Christine Smith 2010
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Broad, irregular rolling to hilly valleys north of the Wisconsinan terminal moraine underlain by slaty shale and fine-grained sandstone and covered by Wisconsinan-age glacial drift.
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Shallow, well-drained, Inceptisols and Ultisols are common in Ecoregion 67b in New Jersey, and developed from slaty shale or pre-Wisconsinan drift.
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Shallow, well-drained Inceptisols and Ultisols are common, and have developed from slaty shale and Wisconsinan drift; many boulders occur.
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Underlain in New Jersey by folded and faulted Ordovician Martinsburg Shale; this slaty shale is slightly more erosion resistant than the limestone underlying Ecoregions 67a and 67j.
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