slab¹ Definition
slab (slab)
noun
- a piece that is flat, broad, and fairly thick a slab of concrete, a slab of bread
- any of the rough, outer pieces removed from a log in sawing it into lumber
Etymology: ME sclabbe
transitive verb slabbed, slab′·bing
- to make into a slab or slabs
- to cut the slabs from (a log)
- to pave or cover with slabs
slab² Definition
slab (slab)
adjective
Archaic thick and heavy; viscid slab porridge
Etymology: < Scand, as in Swed dial. slabb, muddy water: for IE base see slaver
slab Synonyms
slab Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- shale: Fabrics: ' A, ' is of roughly coursed slabs of shale.
- granite: On the tallest of these had stood, perhaps for five centuries, a building made of heavy slabs of granite.
- sandstone: The chamber consisted of 4 slabs of red sandstone, which were about 10 cm ( approx 4 inches ) thick.
Converse of object
- pave: Rows of paving slabs, treated timber struts or a solid concrete base are good base choices.
- incise: Pink pebbles are carried by strong currents from broken slabs incised by ice.
- inscribe: The parapet at the apex carries an inscribed slab stating ' The Reverend John Adams Minister 1732 ' .
- carve: Class II are relief carved slabs bearing symbols in addition to a cross.
Adjective modifier
- incised: Click here to search the website for a named brass or incised slab.
- concrete: A few weeks later, the concrete slabs have been laid across the tunnel to form the roof.
- sepulchral: Three medieval sepulchral slabs are set against the wall to the south of the arch.
- 18thc: Threshold stone at door is weathered 18thC grave slab with flags just inside; then 8 concrete steps up to interior.
- grave: The paths leading past the church are paved with grave slabs.
- upright: The drying chamber, with an inner ring of upright stone slabs, had been cut into the earlier enclosure bank.
Modifies a noun
avalanche: A particularly dangerous form is slab avalanche, formed by wind packing.
Noun used with modifier
- paving: Also imagine a badly fitted paving slab in the pavement immediately outside its front door.
- RC: Typical examples of monolithic cast in-situ RC bond beams with RC slabs are shown below on Figure 13.
- marble: Below a Purbeck marble slab are carved figures of her ten children in the costume of the period.
- granite: Why should I? The rows of bronze plaques embedded in flat granite slabs to mark folks ' graves came into focus.
- rockwool: The plants are propagated in a rockwool cube then grown on in a rockwool slab.
- sandstone: The thin sandstone slab standing on end is unlikely to be an original part of the circle.
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