Chalk

Alternative forms

 * chaulk (Commonwealth)

Etymology
From cealc:, borrowed from  calx:, borrowed from  χάλιξ:

Noun

 * 1)  A soft, white, powdery limestone.
 * 2)  A piece of chalk, or, more often, processed compressed chalk, 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.
 * 5) 🇺🇸 A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers
 * 6) 🇺🇸 The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win

Verb

 * 1) To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiards 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.

Thesaurus
air brush, alabaster, art paper, ballpoint pen, besnow, blackboard, blanch, blaze, blaze a trail, bleach, blemish, blotch, book, brand, brush, calcimine, calendar, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, cartoon, carve, catalog, chalk up, charcoal, check, check in, check off, chronicle, cicatrize, color, copy, crayon, crosshatch, cut, dapple, dash, dash off, daub, define, delimit, delineate, demarcate, depict, design, diagram, discolor, docket, doodle, dot, draft, draw, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, driven snow, easel, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, eraser, etiolate, file, fill out, fixative, fleck, fleece, flour, foam, freckle, frost, gash, grave, grizzle, ground, hatch, impanel, impress, imprint, incise, index, ink, inkhorn, inkstand, inkwell, inscribe, insert, invisible ink, ivory, jot down, lay figure, lead pencil, lily, limn, line, list, log, maggot, make a mark, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark, mark down, mark off, mark out, matriculate, maulstick, medium, milk, minute, mottle, nib, nick, notch, note, note down, paint, paint a picture, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, paper, pastel, pearl, pen, pencil, pepper, picture, picturize, pigments, pipe-clay, place upon record, plume, point, poll, portray, post, post up, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, quill, record, reduce to writing, reed, register, riddle, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratchboard, scumble, seal, seam, set down, shade, sheet, siccative, silver, sketch, sketchbook, sketchpad, slate, snow, spatula, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, spray gun, stain, stamp, stencil, stigmatize, streak, striate, stripe, stump, style, stylograph, stylus, swan, sympathetic ink, table, tablet, tabulate, take down, tape, tape-record, tattoo, tick, tick off, tint, trace, underline, underscore, varnish, videotape, white, whiten, whitewash, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

Noun

 * Armenian: կավիճ (kavič̣)
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: creta
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kridt
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: κρητίδα [kriˈtiða]
 * Icelandic: krítarsteinn
 * Indonesian: kapur
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 白亜 (はくあ, hakua)
 * Kamba:


 * Kikuyu:
 * Korean: 백악
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: گه‌چ
 * Luhya:
 * Luxembourgish: Kräid
 * Macedonian:, вар
 * Meru: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: мел (měl)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: креда, варно
 * Roman: kreda, vapno
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: సుద్ద (sudda)


 * Armenian: կավիճ (kavič̣)
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: тебешир
 * Catalan: guix
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: kreda
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kridt
 * Dutch: krijt, krijtje
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: κιμωλία [cimo̞ˈliˌa], τεμπεσίρι [ˌte̞(m)be̞ˈsiri] (from Turkish tebeşir)
 * Hebrew: גיר (gyr)
 * Hungarian: kréta
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: kapur tulis
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: チョーク (chōku)
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ته‌باشیر
 * Latvian: krīts
 * Luxembourgish: Kräid
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: мел (měl)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: креда
 * Roman: kreda
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: tiza, gis
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: సుద్దముక్క (suddamukka)
 * Turkish:
 * Udi:


 * Catalan: magnèsia
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German: Magnesiapulver
 * Polish: magnezja
 * Turkish:


 * : طبشورة
 * : kleiz (1, 2)
 * : yuya
 * : calx
 * : (gac)

Derived terms

 * chalk up to
 * chalky
 * different as chalk and cheese
 * chalk line

Related terms

 * calcium
 * calx
 * chalkboard