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slab

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slab 1  (slb)
n.
1. A broad, flat, thick piece, as of stone or cheese.
2. An outside piece cut from a log when squaring it for lumber.
3. 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.

[Middle English.]

slab 2  (slb)
adj. Archaic
Viscid.

[Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish slab, mud.]

slab [slæb]
n
1. a broad flat thick piece of wood, stone, or other material
2. a thick slice of cake, etc.
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) any of the outside parts of a log that are sawn off while the log is being made into planks
4. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Mountaineering) Mountaineering a flat sheet of rock lying at an angle of between 30° and 60° from the horizontal
5. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a printer's ink table
6. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) (modifier) Austral and NZ made or constructed of coarse wooden planks a slab hut
7. (Medicine / Surgery) Informal chiefly Brit an operating or mortuary table
vb slabs, slabbing, slabbed (tr)
1. to cut or make into a slab or slabs
2. to cover or lay with slabs
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) to saw slabs from (a log)
[of unknown origin]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.slab - block consisting of a thick piece of somethingslab - block consisting of a thick piece of something
block - 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

slab
noun piece, slice, lump, chunk, wedge, hunk, portion, nugget, wodge (Brit. informal) slabs of stone
Translations
slab [slæb] N
1. [of stone] → losa f
2. (in mortuary) → plancha f de mármol, tabla f de mármol
3. [of chocolate] → tableta f; [of cake etc] → trozo m, tajada f; [of meat] → tajada f (gruesa)

slab [ˈslæb] n
[stone, marble, concrete] → dalle f; [wood] → bloc m
a concrete slab → une dalle de béton paving slab
[meat] → pavé m; [chocolate, cheese] → bloc m; [cake] → épaisse tranche f

slab
n (of wood etc)Tafel f; (of stone, concrete etc)Platte f; (in mortuary) → Tisch m; (= slice)dicke Scheibe; (of cake, bread)großes Stück; (of chocolate)Tafel f

slab [slæb] n (of stone, metal) → lastra; (of wood) → tavola; (of chocolate) → tavoletta; (of meat, cheese) → pezzo (fam) (in mortuary) → tavolo anatomico

slab
n slab [slӕb]
a thick slice or thick flat piece of anything concrete slabs; a slab of cake. skyf, reep قِطْعَه سَميكَه парче řez, plátek plade; skive die Platte, die Scheibe πλάκα, φέτα losa paneel, käntsakas تخته laatta, paksu pala bloc, pavé לוּחַ पटिया, पत्थर का चौरस tanka ploča lap lempengan plata, hella; þykk sneið lastra, piastra 厚板 넓적하고 두꺼운 조각 plokštė, gabalas plāksne; plātne keping tebal plak flat blokk, helle, plate, tykk skive płyta, kawał bloco dală; felie большой кусок, брусок tabuľa; krajec, rez plošča ploča platta, häll, tjock skiva, kaka แผ่นวัสดุหนา kalın dilim 平板,厚板 шматок; плита سل، تختئہ سنگ phiến, tấm, miếng ,块


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The worthy Cropoli, after these recommendations, had only sufficient time to point out to his young successor a chimney, under the slab of which he had hidden a thousand ten-franc pieces, and then expired.
John's, for, if he be of any pretensions at all, he has an ancestor buried there, with a queer, crooked slab at his head, or else sprawling protectively over the grave, on which all the main facts of his history are recorded.
They were followed by gray days under the cover of high, motionless clouds that looked as if carved in a slab of ash-coloured marble.
 
 
 
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