What does slab mean?
Definitions for slab
slæbslab
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Princeton's WordNet
slabnoun
block consisting of a thick piece of something
Wiktionary
slabnoun
mud, sludge.
slabnoun
A large, flat shaped piece of material such as stone, concrete, clay, butter etc..
slabnoun
A paving stone, flagstone
slabnoun
the equivalent to a 12-bit byte in some computers
slabnoun
a box containing twenty-four 375ml aluminium cans of beer
slabnoun
full-size luxury pre-1980 GM vehicles, primarily Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac
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.
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.
Etymology: From sclabbe, slabbe, of origin.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.Slabnoun
1.A puddle. Robert Ainsworth
ChatGPT
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
Slabnoun
a thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces
Slabnoun
an outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc
Slabnoun
the wryneck
Slabnoun
the slack part of a sail
Slabadjective
thick; viscous
Slabnoun
that which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle
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
Slab
Slab, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in X-Factor #74.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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.]
Slab
slab, adj. thick.—n. mud.—adj. Slab′by, muddy. [Celt., Ir., and Gael. slaib, mud.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
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
slab
The outer cut of a tree when sawn up into planks. (Alburnum.)
Rap Dictionary
slabnoun
The ground; to lower a car to the slab: to lower down. "I'm breaking em down to the slab" -- Rage (The Chronic).
slabnoun
Crack.
slabnoun
A term used in the south (Texas and Louisiana) meaning car.
slabnoun
slow.loud.and.bangin.
slabnoun
Raw caine "I used to pedal slab" Fabolous Old Skool Car...hooked up wit shoes, clothes and fly jacket...
slabnoun
4 words Slow Low And Bangin
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of slab in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of slab in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of slab in a Sentence
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.
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.
We have a 500-pound slab of granite that’s been cut at two different angles, water runs up and down it 24/7.
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.
Were the [structural slab] depths lower than expected or much, much higher than expected?
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- بلاطةArabic
- плочаBulgarian
- Scheibe, Platte, FlieseGerman
- πλάκαGreek
- tabla, lámina, baldosa, plancha, losa, adoquín, valdosaSpanish
- levy, laatta, kimpaleFinnish
- chape, dalleFrench
- fetta, mattonella, lastra, soletta, piastrella, piastraItalian
- スラブ, 平板Japanese
- 투수판Korean
- plaatDutch
- steinhelleNorwegian
- laje, placaPortuguese
- плита́Russian
- plošča, tablica, tlakovecSlovene
- platta, skivaSwedish
- levhaTurkish
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