slab
Meanings
noun
- A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- A paving stone; a flagstone.
- A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
- An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
- The slack part of a sail.
- A very large wave.
- The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
- A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
- 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.
- Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.
- A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
verb
- To make into a slab.
- To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.
noun
- Mud, sludge, or other viscous matter.
adj
- Thick; viscous.
noun
- A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
noun
- A bird, the wryneck.
noun
- A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
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Etymology
From Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of uncertain origin; possibly from *slap, related to dialectal slappel (“portion, piece”), along with slape (“slippery”), sleip (“smooth piece of timber”), borrowed through Old Norse sleipr from Proto-Germanic *slaipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyb-. See also Norwegian sleip (“slippery”) and Icelandic sleipur.
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