Word Meanings - GRAPHOLITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any species of slate suitable to be written on.

Related words: (words related to GRAPHOLITE)

• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• WRITTEN
  p. p. of Write, v.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• SLATE-COLOR
  A dark bluish gray color.
• SLATE
  An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist. 2. Any rock or stone having a slaty structure. 3. A prepared piece of such stone. Especially: A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc. A
• SUITABLE
  Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
• SLATE-GRAY
  Of a dark gray, like slate.
• MISTRANSLATE
  To translate erroneously.
• TRANSLATE
  To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
• UNWRITTEN
  1. Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements. 2. Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper. Unwritten doctrines , such doctrines as have been handed down by word of mouth; oral or traditional doctrines.
• SUBSPECIES
  A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.
• SEA SLATER
  Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.
• LEGISLATE
  To make or enact a law or laws. Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of a more perfect constitution than he gave them. Bp. Watson .
• RETRANSLATE
  To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.
• INSUITABLE
  Unsuitable. -- In*suit`a*bil"i*ty, n.