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noun
1.
a broad, flat, somewhat thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid material.
2.
a thick slice of anything: a slab of bread.
3.
a semifinished piece of iron or steel so rolled that its breadth is at least twice its thickness.
4.
a rough outside piece cut from a log, as when sawing one into boards.
5.
verb (used with object)
7.
to make into a slab or slabs.
8.
to cover or lay with slabs.
9.
to cut the slabs or outside pieces from (a log).
10.
to put on in slabs; cover thickly.
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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English sclabbe, slabbe < ?
1250–1300; Middle English sclabbe, slabbe < ?
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slab (slæb) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a broad flat thick piece of wood, stone, or other material |
| 2. | a thick slice of cake, etc |
| 3. | any of the outside parts of a log that are sawn off while the log is being made into planks |
| 4. | mountaineering a flat sheet of rock lying at an angle of between 30° and 60° from the horizontal |
| 5. | a printer's ink table |
| 6. | (Austral), (NZ) (modifier) made or constructed of coarse wooden planks: a slab hut |
| 7. | informal chiefly (Brit) an operating or mortuary table |
| 8. | informal chiefly (Brit), (Austral) a package containing 24 cans of beer |
| —vb , slabs, slabbing, slabbed | |
| 9. | to cut or make into a slab or slabs |
| 10. | to cover or lay with slabs |
| 11. | to saw slabs from (a log) |
| [C13: of unknown origin] | |
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Word Origin & History
slab
late 13c., of unknown origin, possibly related to O.Fr. escalpe "thin fragment of wood," which seems to be a Gaulish loan word (cf. Bret. scolp, Welsh ysgolp "splinter, chip"). But OED rejects this on formal grounds. Meaning "rectangular block of pre-cast concrete used in building" is from 1927.
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Slang Dictionary
slab
[Apple]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.
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