Sekirov Dictionary

slab

/slæb/

noun 18
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 7

noun18

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A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- There were no windows in the inn. They were not required, since the interstices between the slabs suffered the wind, the rain, and the light of day to penetrate simultaneously. — 1859
A paving stone; a flagstone.
An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
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A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
- Next week they'll pour the slab that the shed will sit on.
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(Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
- The Australians murder a few slabs of beer and the New Zealanders murder a few vowels. — 2001
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Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
- Being driven by the gravitational force, the subducting Pacific slab continues to sink down to the boundary between the upper and lower mantle […] — 2015
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A very large wave.
- After being towed into a massive slab, Dorian dropped down the face and caught a rail, putting him in a near-impossible situation. — 2009
(India) Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.
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(US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
- Video screens have also become a standard part of slab interiors. — 2016
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(Southern-US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
- All three of them recognized who the Lexus'^([sic]) belonged to so he parked his slab and they cocked their guns. — 2012
A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
Ellipsis of slab avalanche.
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.
The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
The slack part of a sail.
(no longer used) Mud, sludge, or other viscous matter.
(dialect, no longer used) A bird, the wryneck.

verb2

To make into a slab.
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(informal) To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.
- Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.

adjective1

(no longer used) Thick; viscous.

forms

slabbed · slabbing · slabs · more slab · slabber · most slab · slabbest

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