Converse of object

• wipe: The new headteacher thought wisely to wipe the slate clean.

• interlock: This reversible section may be used either with interlocking slates, or natural and man-made double lap slates.

• quarry: The quarried slate was taken to Wadebridge and Padstow by barge and then transported further afield or used locally.

Adjective modifier

• blank: The idea of identical babies with blank slates for minds had been under attack for some time.

• clean: I'm running out of clean slates to give her.

• Welsh: The WC blocks are clad in smooth Welsh slate, with the shower cubicles marked out in bright blue.

• crushed: Here you see the new footpath made of crushed slate.

• broken: The stuff in which the gold occurred at Mount Brown was composed of broken slate with a few angular fragments of quartz.

• gray: LI Roofing materials ranged through dark brown thatch, red clay pantiles, with a black glazed variant and blue gray Welsh slates.

Modifies a noun

• roof: Leading up to the present church with its slate roof is a row of horse chestnut trees.

• quarry: The Wynne slate quarry opened in 1750 followed by a larger concern, the Cambrian Slate Company, which was formed in 1854.

• hearth: Open fireplace with fitted villager log burning stove on a slate hearth.

• rubble: Granite and slate rubble stone with Welsh slate roof and brick end stacks.

• slab: Extracts from the Laws are carved on slate slabs in the Center garden.

• chipping: Finish off with a mulch of fine gravel, frosted glass or slate chippings.

Noun used with modifier

• roofing: Several slate quarries are still worked, tho today largely for cut stone for head offices and overseas palaces rather than domestic roofing slate.

• lap: Resin slate tolerances Single lap resin slate, made in a press, has a smaller manufacturing tolerance than either clay or concrete.

• resin: Resin slates not made in a press can often be more variable than clay tiles due to the wet nature of the process.

Preposition: with

• tile: Roofs: slates with yellow ceramic toothed ridge tiles.