chalk
verb/tʃɔːk/
/tʃɔːk/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they chalk | /tʃɔːk/ /tʃɔːk/ |
| he / she / it chalks | /tʃɔːks/ /tʃɔːks/ |
| past simple chalked | /tʃɔːkt/ /tʃɔːkt/ |
| past participle chalked | /tʃɔːkt/ /tʃɔːkt/ |
| -ing form chalking | /ˈtʃɔːkɪŋ/ /ˈtʃɔːkɪŋ/ |
- chalk something (up) (on something) to write or draw something with chalk
- She chalked (up) the day’s menu on the board.
- A message was chalked on the door—‘Back at 11 o’clock.’
- a chalked outline of a human body
- The scores were chalked up on the wall.
Word OriginOld English cealc (also denoting lime), related to Dutch kalk and German Kalk, from Latin calx, ‘lime’, probably from Greek khalix ‘pebble, limestone’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See chalk in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarychalk something up to experience
(also put something down to experience)
- used to say that somebody should think of a failure as being something that they can learn from
- We lost a lot of money, but we just chalked it up to experience.
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