slab

IPA: sɫˈæb

noun

  • A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
  • A paving stone; a flagstone.
  • (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.
  • (nautical) The slack part of a sail.
  • (US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
  • (surfing) A very large wave.
  • (programming) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
  • (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
  • (construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
  • (geometry) 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.
  • (archaic) Mud, sludge.
  • (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
  • (British dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wryneck.
  • (computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.

verb

  • (transitive) To make something into a slab.

adjective

  • (archaic) Thick; viscous.
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Examples of "slab" in Sentences

  • I found the wooden slab in my backyard.
  • The material was poured and the slab broken.
  • The slab broach is the simplest surface broach.
  • The final step was to saw the slab into pencils.
  • The first is the question of insulating a floor slab.
  • This is marked by a square porphyry slab in the floor.
  • The paving of the nave is of limestone or granite slabs.
  • The remainder of the first floor sits directly on the slab.
  • The concentration of particles in the slab is represented by N.
  • The foundation barrettes support the concrete slab which holds the buildings.
  • I used the cheese to stuff halapeno peppers which I wraped in slab bacon the broiled.
  • The slab is a horizontal boundary-line and all the vertical relations are related to it.
  • The ground floor slab is not nearly as costly as the second floor slab because it has no rebar or plastic blocks.
  • The cost of the first floor slab is buried in the cost of other phases because we poured that slab ourselves in pieces as we had time.
  • The important thing in dealing with copper pipes in the slab is to be sure the copper does not touch the rebar -- this can be deadly to the pipes.
  • The one on the slab is insanely reachy, and involves a hand-foot match with no other holds in sight -- you just have to smear up to it and then do it.
  • At Aberdour Castle, Fifeshire, a vertical dial in a circle engraved on a square slab is set in a kind of niche cutting across the corner of the building and facing south-west.
  • A layer of 4″ aggregate, sand, or soil gas collection mats must be installed under the basement slab, and 6 mil polyethelene laid over the aggregate before the basement slab is poured.
  • For the grape-leaf sprigging, I used some leaves from my garden (dating from before the leafhopper and skeletonizer incidents) Â I rolled out a thin slab of clay and then laid leaves on top, then rolled on top of the leaves to embed the veins into the clay.

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