Word Meanings - SLATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.

Related words: (words related to SLATER)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• 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
• 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
• INOCCUPATION
  Want of occupation.
• 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 .
• DISOCCUPATION
  The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
• PREOCCUPATION
  1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.
• RETRANSLATE
  To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.