blackboard

[US]/'blækbɔːd/
[UK]/'blækbɔrd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a flat, typically dark surface, often made of slate or a similar material, used for writing or drawing on with chalk, especially in a classroom.

Phrases & Collocations

erase the blackboard

clean the blackboard

blackboard eraser

Example Sentences

a blackboard that rubs clean easily.

The teacher wrote on the blackboard with a piece of chalk.

There is a single name on the blackboard — whose is it?

copy (sth.) down (from the blackboard)

The man standing before the blackboard is our English teacher.

The teacher is cleaning the blackboard with a board rubber.

The results were chalked up on the blackboard as soon as they came in.

New blackboards have been fitted up in all the classrooms.

the sound of fingernails being dragged down a blackboard

Stuart Bracton issued in 1906 a short film, he farceur made before the blackboard in a funny, funny face, and then shot them, then a row of display them.

As a defensive-backfield coach for Syracuse University's football team, Randy Edsall spends hours putting X's and O's on the blackboards and exhorting players in Saturday showdowns.

From the back asthma wheezingly run a student: "Teacher, still give us our black blackboard eraser, we are returned so that attend class!

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