An ancient city and centre of Buddhism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism and capital of Bactria.
One of the 34 provinces in Afghanistan, Balkh Province.
chalk
chalk
noun
(US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
(US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
(US, sports, chiefly basketball, horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
(countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
(uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
(uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
Tailor's chalk.
verb
(figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
To manure (land) with chalk.
To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
