- a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
- a prepared piece of chalk or chalklike substance for marking, as for writing on a blackboard.
- a mark made with chalk.
- a score or tally.
- the competitor considered most likely to win by the oddsmakers; favorite: If you don’t know anything about either team, just bet the chalk.
- to mark or write with chalk.
- to rub over or whiten with chalk.
- to treat or mix with chalk: to chalk a billiard cue.
- to make pale; blanch: Terror chalked her face.
- (of paint) to powder from weathering.
- of, made of, or drawn with chalk.
- chalk up,
- to score or earn: They chalked up two runs in the first inning.
- to charge or ascribe to: It was a poor performance, but may be chalked up to lack of practice.
- a soft fine-grained white sedimentary rock consisting of nearly pure calcium carbonate, containing minute fossil fragments of marine organisms, usually without a cementing material
- a piece of chalk or a substance like chalk, often coloured, used for writing and drawing on a blackboard
- a line, mark, etc made with chalk
- a small cube of prepared chalk or similar substance for rubbing the tip of a cue
- a score, tally, or record
- totally different in essentials
- by far
- to be unable to judge or appreciate important differences
- by no means; not possibly
- made of chalk
- to draw or mark (something) with chalk
- to mark, rub, or whiten with or as if with chalk
- (of paint) to become chalky; powder
- to spread chalk on (land) as a fertilizer
