Slab



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• n.厚板, 厚块
• ［英］ n.厚板, 厚块 ( a thick plate or slice)
• ［类］ 反义词: sliver ( 细条)
• ［记］ 和stab ( 刺、戳) 一起记
• ［例］ a slab of bread ( 一块厚面包)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English slabbe
• Date: 14th century
• 1. a thick plate or slice (as of stone, wood, or bread): as
  • a. the outside piece cut from a log in squaring it
  • b. concrete pavement (as of a road); specifically a strip of concrete pavement laid as a single unjointed piece
  • c.
    • (1) a flat rectangular architectural element that is usually formed of a single piece or mass <a concrete foundation slab>
    • (2) a rectangular building having little width with respect to its length and usually height
• 2. something that resembles a slab (as in size, shape, or density) <backed up by a solid slab of reference material — Times Literary Supplement>
• ? slablike adjective

II. transitive verb (slabbed; slabbing)

• Date: 1703
• 1.
  • a. to remove an outer slab from (as a log)
  • b. to divide or form into slabs
• 2. to cover or support (as a roadbed or roof) with slabs
• 3. to put on thickly

III. adjective

• Etymology: akin to Middle English slabben to wallow, obsolete Danish slab muck
• Date: 1605
• dialect chiefly England thick, viscous

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