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slab 1
(slăb)n.
1. A broad, flat, thick piece, as of stone or cheese.
2. A cliff or rock ledge that rises at a relatively low angle.
3. A flat poured concrete surface used as a foundation or base for construction.
4. A table on which a body is laid out in a morgue.
5. An outside piece cut from a log when squaring it for lumber.
6. Baseball The pitcher's rubber.
tr.v. slabbed, slab·bing, slabs
1. To make or shape into slabs or a slab.
2. To cover or pave with slabs.
3. To dress (a log) by cutting slabs.
4. Chiefly New England To ascend or descend (a steep slope) by an oblique path.
[Middle English.]
slab 2
(slăb)adj. Archaic
Viscid.
[Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish slab, mud.]
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slab
(slæb)n
1. a broad flat thick piece of wood, stone, or other material
2. a thick slice of cake, etc
3. (Forestry) any of the outside parts of a log that are sawn off while the log is being made into planks
4. (Mountaineering) mountaineering a flat sheet of rock lying at an angle of between 30° and 60° from the horizontal
5. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a printer's ink table
6. (Building) (modifier) Austral and NZ made or constructed of coarse wooden planks: a slab hut.
7. (Surgery) informal chiefly Brit an operating or mortuary table
8. (Brewing) chiefly informal Brit and Austral a package containing 24 cans of beer
vb (tr) , slabs, slabbing or slabbed
9. to cut or make into a slab or slabs
10. to cover or lay with slabs
11. (Forestry) to saw slabs from (a log)
[C13: of unknown origin]
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slab
(slæb)n., v. slabbed, slab•bing. n.
1. a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
2. a thick slice of anything: a slab of bread.
3. a rough outside piece cut from a log, as when sawing one into boards.
v.t. 4. to make into a slab or slabs.
5. to cover or lay with slabs.
6. to cut the slabs or outside pieces from (a log).
7. to put on in slabs or layers; apply thickly.
[1300–50; Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of obscure orig.]
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slab
Past participle: slabbed
Gerund: slabbing
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| Noun | 1. |  slab - block consisting of a thick piece of somethingblock - a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides); "the pyramids were built with large stone blocks" butcher block, butcher board - a thick wooden slab formed by bonding together thick laminated strips of unpainted hardwood tablet - a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription tile - a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces |
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Translations
قِطْعَه سَميكَه
плоча
plátekřez
pladeskive
kimpalelaattalevy
plata, hella; òykk sneiî
plāksneplātne
ploščareženj
kalın dilim
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[ˈslæb] nCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
slab
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[slæb] n (of stone, metal) → lastra; (of wood) → tavola; (of chocolate) → tavoletta; (of meat, cheese) → pezzo (fam) (in mortuary) → tavolo anatomicoCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
slab
(slӕb) noun a thick slice or thick flat piece of anything. concrete slabs; a slab of cake.
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