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slate
What does slate mean?
slate (verb): designate or schedule.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use slate in a sentence?
- She was slated to be his successor. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce slate?
/sleɪt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
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What does “slate” mean?
designate or schedule
Right! That's what “slate” means.
to instruct or inform
Not quite: that's what tell means.
to request forcefully
Not quite: that's what demand means.
cause to go somewhere
Not quite: that's what send means.
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