Definition of slab
1 : a thick plate or slice (as of stone, wood, or bread): such asa : the outside piece cut from a log in squaring itb : concrete pavement (as of a road); specifically : a strip of concrete pavement laid as a single unjointed piecec (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 — The Times Literary Supplement (London)
3 : a hard plastic holder for a collectible coin and an identifying insert
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Examples of slab in a Sentence
a thick slab of homemade bread
Recent Examples of slab from the Web
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The menu will feature barbequed chicken, coleslaw, baked potato with sour cream and/or butter, rolls, slab apple pie for dessert, and beverages.
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The relaxed brewpub setting includes slabs sawed from a massive, local cottonwood tree for its tabletops.
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Businesses are also put off by the GST’s complicated structure, which includes four tax slabs ranging from 5 percent to 28 percent as well as numerous exemptions.
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This is especially true when those slabs are crumbled and then mixed in with cheese and noodles and eaten between swigs of a coconut caramel chocolate brown ale called Dirty Little Freak.
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In the kitchen, a painting seeps blue, white and light brown colors together, matching that of a marble slab.
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Some condominiums are configured so that the common area starts at the slab or the ground –
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Some slabs may have beautiful gold-tone streaks, as well.
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Protruding from the grass was a rectangular slab of granite.
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Origin and Etymology of slab
Middle English slabbe
Other Civil Engineering Terms
slab
Definition of slab
slabbed
;slabbing
transitive verb
1a : to remove an outer slab from slab a logb : to divide or form into slabs
2 : to cover or support (something, such as a roadbed or roof) with slabs
3 : to put on thickly
First Known Use of slab
1703
Other Civil Engineering Terms
Origin and Etymology of slab
akin to Middle English slabben to wallow, obsolete Danish slab muck
SLAB Defined for English Language Learners
slab
playDefinition of slab for English Language Learners
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: a thick, flat piece of a hard material (such as stone or wood)
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: a thick, flat piece of food (such as bread or meat)
SLAB Defined for Kids
slab
playDefinition of slab for Students
: a flat thick piece or slice a slab of stone
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