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Definition of 'slab'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) slab
a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.

2.  slab
a thick slice of anything:
a slab of bread.

3.  slab
a rough outside piece cut from a log, as when sawing one into boards.

4. (v.t.) slab
to make into a slab or slabs.

5.  slab
to cover or lay with slabs.

6.  slab
to cut the slabs or outside pieces from (a log).

7.  slab
to put on in slabs or layers; apply thickly.

Etymology: (1300–50; ME sclabbe, slabbe, of obscure orig.)

Definition of 'slab'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) slab
block consisting of a thick piece of something

Definition of 'slab'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) slab
a thick square piece
stone slabs used for building; a slab of chocolate cake

Definition of 'slab'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) slab
thick; viscous

2. (noun) slab
a thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces

3. (noun) slab
an outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc

4. (noun) slab
the wryneck

5. (noun) slab
the slack part of a sail

6. (noun) slab
that which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle

Definitions of 'slab'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. slab
1. n. A continuous horizontal line of pixels, all with the same color.

2. vi. To paint a slab on an output device. Apple's QuickDraw, like most other professional-level graphics systems, renders polygons and lines not with Bresenham's algorithm, but by calculating slab points for each scan line on the screen in succession, and then slabbing in the actual image pixels.

Translation of 'slab'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a thick slice or thick flat piece of anything concrete slabs; a slab of cake.
Afrikaans: skyf, reep	Arabic: قِطْعَه سَميكَه	Bulgarian: парче
Brazilian: bloco	Czech: řez, plátek	German: die Platte, die Scheibe
Danish: plade; skive	Greek: πλάκα, φέτα	Spanish: losa
Estonian: paneel, käntsakas	Farsi: تخته	Finnish: laatta
French: bloc, pavé	Hebrew: לוּחַ	Hindi: पटिया, पत्थर का चौरस
Croatian: tanka ploča	Hungarian: lap	Indonesian: lempengan
Icelandic: plata, hella;þykk sneið	Italian: lastra, piastra	Japanese: 厚板
Korean: 넓적하고 두꺼운 조각	Lithuanian: plokštė, gabalas	Latvian: plāksne; plātne
Malay: keping tebal	Dutch: plak	Norwegian: flat blokk, helle, plate,
Polish: płyta, kawał	Persian: تخته	Pashto: شاځه، ښازه، تخته (لكه دتي
Portuguese: bloco	Romanian: dală; felie	Russian: большой кусок, брусок
Slovak: tabuľa; krajec, rez	Slovenian: plošča	Serbian: ploča
Swedish: platta, häll, tjock skiva	Thai: แผ่นวัสดุหนา	Turkish: kalın dilim
Taiwanese: 平板，厚板	Ukrainian: шматок; плита	Urdu: سل، تختئہ سنگ
Vietnamese: phiến, tấm, miếng	Chinese: 平板，厚板
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