English Dictionary

slab

/slæb/

noun

A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat. / A paving stone; a flagstone. / (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).

I saw a slab of marble at the construction site.

意味（1）

A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.

There were no windows in the inn. They were not required, since the interstices between the slabs suffered the wind, the rain, and the light of day to penetrate simultaneously.

意味（2）

A paving stone; a flagstone.

意味（3）

(Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).

The Australians murder a few slabs of beer and the New Zealanders murder a few vowels.

意味（4）

An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.

意味（5）

A bird, the wryneck.

意味（6）

(nautical) The slack part of a sail.

意味（7）

(US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.

After a few loops around the park, some drivers—most of them Black and Latino men in their twenties and thirties driving customized lowriders, bright, candy-colored slabs, and jacked-up trucks with flashy chrome rims—packed into a nearby middle school parking lot.

意味（8）

(surfing) A very large wave.

After being towed into a massive slab, Dorian dropped down the face and caught a rail, putting him in a near-impossible situation.

意味（9）

(computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.

意味（10）

(computing) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.

意味（11）

(geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.

Being driven by the gravitational force, the subducting Pacific slab continues to sink down to the boundary between the upper and lower mantle […]

意味（12）

(construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.