What does slab mean?

Definitions for slab
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word slab.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. slabnoun

    block consisting of a thick piece of something

Wiktionary

  1. slabnoun

    mud, sludge.

  2. slabnoun

    A large, flat shaped piece of material such as stone, concrete, clay, butter etc..

  3. slabnoun

    A paving stone, flagstone

  4. slabnoun

    the equivalent to a 12-bit byte in some computers

  5. slabnoun

    a box containing twenty-four 375ml aluminium cans of beer

  6. slabnoun

    full-size luxury pre-1980 GM vehicles, primarily Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac

  7. slabverb

    Slow, Loud And Bangin': A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and any other accessories that add to the style of the vehicle.

    Slim thug - wood grain wheel - You ain't riding slab if them ain't swangas on ya ride.

  8. slabverb

    To make something into a slab.

    Slim thug - wood grain wheel - You ain't riding slab if them ain't swangas on ya ride.

  9. Etymology: From sclabbe, slabbe, of origin.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Slabadjective

    Thick; viscous; glutinous.

    Etymology: A word, I suppose, of the same original with stabber, or slaver.

    Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips;
    Finger of birth-strangl’d babe,
    Ditch-deliver’d by a drab;
    Make the gruel thick and slab. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

  2. Slabnoun

    1.A puddle. Robert Ainsworth

ChatGPT

  1. slab

    A slab is a broad, flat, typically rectangular piece of a hard material such as stone, wood, or metal, used mainly in construction or for paving. It's often thick and strong enough to support considerable weight. It can also refer to a large, thick slice or chunk of food or other similar substance.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Slabnoun

    a thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces

  2. Slabnoun

    an outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc

  3. Slabnoun

    the wryneck

  4. Slabnoun

    the slack part of a sail

  5. Slabadjective

    thick; viscous

  6. Slabnoun

    that which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle

  7. Etymology: [OE. slabbe, of uncertain origin; perhaps originally meaning, a smooth piece, and akin to slape, Icel. sleipr slippery, and E. slip, v. i.]

Wikidata

  1. Slab

    Slab, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in X-Factor #74.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Slab

    slab, n. a thin slip of anything, esp. of stone, having plane surfaces: a piece sawed from a log.—v.t. to cut slabs from, as a log.—adj. Slab′-sid′ed, having long flat sides, tall and lank.—n. Slab′stone, flagstone. [Scand., Ice. sleppa, to slip, Norw. sleip, a slab of wood.]

  2. Slab

    slab, adj. thick.—n. mud.—adj. Slab′by, muddy. [Celt., Ir., and Gael. slaib, mud.]

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.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. slab

    The outer cut of a tree when sawn up into planks. (Alburnum.)

Rap Dictionary

  1. slabnoun

    The ground; to lower a car to the slab: to lower down. "I'm breaking em down to the slab" -- Rage (The Chronic).

  2. slabnoun

    Crack.

  3. slabnoun

    A term used in the south (Texas and Louisiana) meaning car.

  4. slabnoun

    slow.loud.and.bangin.

  5. slabnoun

    Raw caine "I used to pedal slab" Fabolous Old Skool Car...hooked up wit shoes, clothes and fly jacket...

  6. slabnoun

    4 words Slow Low And Bangin

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slab in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slab in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of slab in a Sentence

  1. General Prado:

    He was then laid out on a concrete slab in the little laundry behind the hospital, and around 30 press photographers from all over the world were invited in to shoot images of the body as it lay in state, it was important for the government and the military to show Che dead as a lesson to anyone intending to invade or threaten the Bolivian way of life in the future.

  2. Martin Lockley:

    The concentration of mammal tracks on this site is orders of magnitude higher than any other site in the world, i don't think I've ever seen a slab this size, which is a couple of square meters, where you have over 70 footprints of so many different types. This is the mother lode of Cretaceous mammal tracks.

  3. David Waldrep:

    We have a 500-pound slab of granite that’s been cut at two different angles, water runs up and down it 24/7.

  4. Winston Sammut:

    They have seen an opportunity to get a decent slab of commercial assets, primarily in the Sydney market, which has been the best-performing market for sometime, but they are paying a big price in an environment where interest rates are likely go up.

  5. Abi Aghayere:

    Were the [structural slab] depths lower than expected or much, much higher than expected?

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