CHALK OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chalk out mean? 

• CHALK OUT (verb)
  The verb CHALK OUT has 1 sense:

1. make a sketch of

  Familiarity information: CHALK OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHALK OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a sketch of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

chalk out; sketch

Context example:

sketch the building

Hypernyms (to "chalk out" is one way to...):

draw (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)