The meaning of Slab

Slab – definition

noun
A large, thick, flat piece of stone or concrete, typically square or rectangular in shape.
Usage examples:
Paving slabs
noun
A large, thick slice or piece of cake, bread, chocolate, etc.
Usage examples:
A slab of bread and cheese
Synonims:
Piece Block Hunk Chunk Lump Portion Cake Tablet Brick Wodge
noun
An outer piece of timber sawn from a log.
Usage examples:
The slabs i trimmed away from the logs became the siding for the cabin walls
noun
A pack containing 24 bottles or cans of beer.
Usage examples:
Winner gets a free slab of beer and all the pies that they can eat.

verb
Remove slabs from (a log or tree) to prepare it for sawing into planks.
Usage examples:
He slabbed the log on the two other remaining sides to make a rectangular timber

Slab translation into English

Slab: translate from English into Chinese

板坯, 厚板, 石板, 木板, 石片, 扁坯, 板皮

Slab: translate from English into Dutch

Plaat, Plak, Platte steen, Tablet, Gedenksteen, Schaal, Slik, Met platen bedekken

Slab: translate from English into French

Dalle, Plaque, Tranche, Pavé, Tablette, Pièce, Étal, Table de dissection, Débiter, Tailler en bloc

Slab: translate from English into German

Platte, Tafel, Schwarte, Tisch, Dicke scheibe, Großes stück

Slab: translate from English into Hindi

पत्थर की पटिया, पटिया, स्तर, खंड, फलक, कोरन, तख़्ता, शिला-फलक, सिल्ली, पत्थर या किसी ठोस पदार्थ का टुकड़ा

Slab: translate from English into Italian

Lastra, Piastra, Pezzo, Tavola, Tavoletta, Tavolo anatomico

Slab: translate from English into Korean

투수판, 두꺼운 판자로 만들다, 널빤지로 켜다, 감상적인, 끈적끈적한, 시체 안치대, 넓적하고 두꺼운 조각, 죽더끼

Slab: translate from English into Russian

Плита, Пластина, Горбыль, Плоская заготовка, Ломоть, Густой, Кус, Жидкая грязь, Вязкий, Слабина паруса, Большой кусок, Мостить плитами, Срезать горбыли

Slab: translate from English into Spanish

Losa, Plancha, Bloque, Tajada gruesa

Word origin

Middle English: of unknown origin.

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Slab – similar words

slabbed

adjective
Covered with slabs.
Usage examples:
A slabbed patio area

verb
Remove slabs from (a log or tree) to prepare it for sawing into planks.
Usage examples:
He slabbed the log on the two other remaining sides to make a rectangular timber

All meanings and translations of Slabbed

Slab synonims

block

noun
A large solid piece of hard material, especially rock, stone, or wood, typically with flat surfaces on each side.
Usage examples:
A block of marble

verb
Make the movement or flow in (a passage, pipe, road, etc.) difficult or impossible.
Usage examples:
The narrow roads were blocked by cars

verb
Obstruct

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brick

noun
A small rectangular block typically made of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building.
Usage examples:
Mud and wattle or sun-dried bricks are used in house building in rural areas; well-off families may…

verb
Block or enclose with a wall of bricks.
Usage examples:
The doors have been bricked up

All meanings and translations of Brick

cake

keɪk

noun
An item of soft sweet food made from a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and sometimes iced or decorated.
Usage examples:
A delicious cake smothered with whipped cream

verb
(of a thick or sticky substance that hardens when dry) cover and become encrusted on (the surface of an object).
Usage examples:
His clothes were caked in mud

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chunk

noun
A thick, solid piece of something.
Usage examples:
Huge chunks of masonry littered the street

verb
Divide (something) into chunks.
Usage examples:
Chunk four pounds of pears

verb
Move with or make a muffled, metallic sound.
Usage examples:
The door chunked behind them

All meanings and translations of Chunk

hunk

noun
A large piece of something, especially food, cut or broken off a larger piece.
Usage examples:
A hunk of bread

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lump

noun
A compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape.
Usage examples:
There was a lump of ice floating in the milk

verb
Put in an indiscriminate mass or group; treat as alike without regard for particulars.
Usage examples:
Hong kong and bangkok tend to be lumped together in holiday brochures

verb
Accept or tolerate a disagreeable situation whether one likes it or not.
Usage examples:
You can like it or lump it but i've got to work

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piece

noun
A portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole.
Usage examples:
A piece of cheese

verb
Assemble something from parts or pieces.
Usage examples:
The dinosaur was pieced together from 119 bones

noun
A part of something
Usage examples:
A piece of cake/chicken/pizza, the vase lay on the floor in pieces (= broken into small parts)., sh…

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portion

noun
A part of a whole.
Usage examples:
A portion of the jetty still stands

verb
Divide (something) into parts; share out.
Usage examples:
Every month you send the agency a single payment that is portioned out to each of your creditors un…

All meanings and translations of Portion

tablet

noun
A flat slab of stone, clay, or wood, used especially for an inscription.
Usage examples:
At the corner of the apse is a memorial tablet

noun
A small, flat, compressed cake of some substance

noun
A small, round, solid object made of medicine; a pill
Usage examples:
Aspirin tablets, the archaeologists found six tablets recording business transactions from over thr…

All meanings and translations of Tablet

wodge

noun
A large piece or amount of something.
Usage examples:
He slapped a wodge of notes down on the counter

noun
A thick piece or a large amount of something
Usage examples:
She cut herself a great wodge of chocolate cake., he hurried towards the staffroom with a wodge of …

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