amerikai:
brit:
1. A soft, white, powdery limestone.
2. A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.
3. Tailor's chalk.
4. A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk.
5. A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
6. (horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
7. The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
1. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
2. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
3. To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
4. To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
5. To manure (land) with chalk.
6. To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.