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slab
1[ slab ]
noun
- a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
- a thick slice of anything:
a slab of bread.
- a semifinished piece of iron or steel so rolled that its breadth is at least twice its thickness.
- a rough outside piece cut from a log, as when sawing one into boards.
- Baseball Slang. rubber 1( def 14 ).
- Building Trades. a section of concrete pavement or a concrete floor placed directly on the ground or on a base of gravel.
verb (used with object)
- to make into a slab or slabs.
- to cover or lay with slabs.
- to cut the slabs or outside pieces from (a log).
- to put on in slabs; cover thickly.
slab
2[ slab ]
adjective
- thick; viscous.
slab
/ æ /
noun
- a broad flat thick piece of wood, stone, or other material
- a thick slice of cake, etc
- any of the outside parts of a log that are sawn off while the log is being made into planks
- mountaineering a flat sheet of rock lying at an angle of between 30° and 60° from the horizontal
- a printer's ink table
- modifier made or constructed of coarse wooden planks
a slab hut
- informal.an operating or mortuary table
- informal.a package containing 24 cans of beer
verb
- to cut or make into a slab or slabs
- to cover or lay with slabs
- to saw slabs from (a log)
51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Working under the sweltering sun, in nearly 40C, rescuers use metal drills and cutters to break the concrete slabs into smaller pieces.
Structural beams, columns and slabs held up, despite extreme shaking and swaying of some high-rises.
Widely shared footage shows two men moving rubble to pry out a young woman trapped between two concrete slabs.
"A 'flat slab' system is a way of constructing buildings where floors are made to rest directly on columns, without using beams," he explained.
Volunteer Devon Douglas emerged from a pit of rubble that had once been the living room, staggering under the weight of a concrete slab more than a foot wide.
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