slab
A large, flat piece of solid materialA large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
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» We need a crane to lift this slab.
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Examples
13 sentencesWe need a crane to lift this slab.
A heavy stone slab was lowered over the grave.
deAuf das Grab wurde eine schwere Steinplatte gelegt. — Sudajaengi
Grass is growing unchecked between the uneven paving slabs.
deZwischen den unebenen Gehwegplatten wächst ungehindert Gras. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Meaning
17 sensesA large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
Scheibe, Platte, Tafel
плита́plitá, слэ́бslɛ́b, плитня́кplitnják
A paving stone; a flagstone.
Fliese, Platte, Steinplatte
плита́plitá
A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
Next week they'll pour the slab that the shed will sit on.
More meanings 14
(India, especially)Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.
Near-synonym: tax bracket
(Australia)A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
The slack part of a sail.
A very large wave.
The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
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.
A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
- block consisting of a thick piece of something
Origin
From Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of uncertain origin; possibly from *slap, related toFrom Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of uncertain origin; possibly from *slap, related to dialectal slappel (“portion, piece”), along with slape (“slippery”), sleip (“smooth piece of timber”), borrowed through Old Norse sleipr from Proto-Germanic *slaipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyb-. See also Norwegian sleip (“slippery”) and Icelandic sleipur.
Compare Scottish Gaelic slàib (“mud”) and Irish slaba (“muddy flat”), and English slop (“puddle”).
Acronym of Slow, Loud And Bangin'. This term been popularized through the southern rap genre of hip-hop, most notably by rappers such as Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Lil' Keke, and others.
From syllable.
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