Translation for '
slate' from English to Russian
NOUN1 | a slate | slates | |
NOUN2 | slate [type of rock] | - | |
VERB | to slate | slated | slated slating | slates | |
SYNO | slate | slating | ticket |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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Usage Examples English
- Extensive slate deposits were located in 1846 in nearby Fair Haven, and in 1850 more slate deposits were found in Middle Granville.
- is a major slate quarry in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales.
- The Hendreddu slate quarry opened in August 1868, on the north slope of Mynydd Hendre-ddu.
- Moselle slate ("Moselschiefer") is a manufacturing and trade description for slate from the municipalities of Mayen, Polch, Müllenbach, Trier and its surrounding area.
- The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate.
- Historically, Willunga is well known for its slate industry, which began in 1840 when a farmer named Edward Loud found slate on his property and later that year opened the first slate quarry.
- It also owned Alfred McAlpine Slate, which was the world's largest producer of natural slate.
- Slate shingles are also called "slate tiles", the usual name outside the US.
- However, by 2002 it was no longer economical to extract slate at Aberllefenni and the mine closed in 2003.
- The quarry provided a source of Upper Devonian slate and Lower Carboniferous slates of a greyish green colour used predominantly for roofing.
- Eugene Pincham left to run on the Harold Washington Party slate, and was replaced on the Democratic slate by Danny K.
- Slate shingles may be simple in form but many buildings with slate siding are highly decorative.
- Dolgoch slate quarry (also spelt Dol-goch slate quarry or Dol-gôch slate quarry) was a slate quarry in Mid Wales, approximately halfway between Bryn-crug and Abergynolwyn ([...] away from each of them).
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