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slating

[ UK /slˈe‍ɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫeɪtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of laying slates for a roof
  2. thin layers of rock used for roofing
  3. a severely critical attack
    the reviewers gave his book a sound slating

How To Use slating In A Sentence

  • After weighing over the problem of translating "meaning", the author tries to show that the "meaning" of the original is conveyable, hence an integral notion of e...
  • After weighing over the problem of translating "meaning", the author tries to show that the "meaning" of the original is conveyable, hence an integral notion of e...
  • I am listening to your day-tales, though I wonder that this time might be better spent mistranslating health warnings from foreign cigarettes and pasting them to a gallery wall or, perhaps, composing a biro haiku on the arch of a foot, proclaiming: Day 9: Better Spent Time
  • This is not a problem; however, because typically only transmittal equipment is available in the market and translating equipment is proprietary to specific companies. David Isenberg: The GAO Transcripts, Part 6: Coordinating PSC Activities in Iraq
  • The term belly-dance is a creation of Orientalism, and is first attested in English in 1899, translating French danse du ventre. WN.com - Financial News
  • What is more Big Government than legislating effort in athletic competition?
  • He says New Zealand is a country trying to promote itself as a leading golf destination, so the last thing the sport needs is its number one professional slating a leading course.
  • Translating hints into statements and guessing at reservations, I would say that the French fall very short of admiration of the way in which our higher officers set about their work, they are disagreeably impressed by a general want of sedulousness and close method in our leading. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war
  • You try to think how much fabric you will need, translating shapes into metres, or in my case, yards which I then convert to metric.
  • Al-Biruni studied Indian literature in the original, translating several Sanskrit texts into Arabic.
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