slab

1. A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.

   Scheibe, Platte, Tafel

   плита́plitá, слэ́бslɛ́b, плитня́кplitnják

2. A paving stone; a flagstone.

   Fliese, Platte, Steinplatte

   плита́plitá

3. (Australia)A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).

4. An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.

5. The slack part of a sail.

6. A very large wave.

7. The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.

8. Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.

9. A poured-concrete foundation for a building.

   Next week they'll pour the slab that the shed will sit on.

10. A region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.

11. (India, especially)Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.

    Near-synonym: tax bracket

12. A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.

1. We need a crane to lift this slab.

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2. A heavy stone slab was lowered over the grave.

   deAuf das Grab wurde eine schwere Steinplatte gelegt.

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3. Grass is growing unchecked between the uneven paving slabs.

   deZwischen den unebenen Gehwegplatten wächst ungehindert Gras.

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4. A heavy stone slab was placed over the grave.

   deAuf das Grab wurde eine schwere Steinplatte gelegt.

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5. We call these slabs of the solid-rock layer 'plates'.

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