Definitions for slating

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slating slat·ing

Spelling: [sley-ting]

IPA: /ˈsleɪ tɪŋ/

Slating is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in slating (agilnst).

Definitions for slating

noun

1. the act or work of covering something with slates.
2. materials for roofing with slates.
3. a fine-grained rock formed by the metamorphosis of clay, shale, etc., that tends to split along parallel cleavage planes, usually at an angle to the planes of stratification.
4. a thin piece or plate of this rock or a similar material, used especially for roofing or as a writing surface.
5. a dull, dark bluish gray.
6. a list of candidates, officers, etc., to be considered for nomination, appointment, election, or the like.

Idioms

1. clean slate, an unsullied record; a record marked by creditable conduct:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with or as with slate.
2. to write or set down for nomination or appointment:
3. to plan or designate (something) for a particular place and time; schedule:
4. to censure or criticize harshly or violently; scold.
5. to punish severely.
6. to sic or set a dog on (a person or animal).

Origin of slating

First recorded in 1565-75; slate¹ + -ing¹

Examples for slating

The matter of the poem is praised; the “slating” is only for the form and metres.

Or, slake lime in tar, and into it dip sheets of the thickest brown paper, to be laid on in the manner of slating.

It fell to a critic on the Westminster Gazette to do the out and out "slating."

And this was all the result of the slating the press gave to Mavis Clare!

The timbers of the roof are on, and we are beginning to board it for slating.

Wy, it's worth a fair six d a week jest to see 'em a slating Old Chips!

The company is slating at least $1 billion to pay for severance and other related costs alone.

The critic reviewed a premire we had just given, slating every one but myself, and saying that I belonged on the world-stage.

Somebody in their papers has been slating the Dayspring properties, and there's a good deal of stock they couldn't work off.