slab

(Englisch)

Noun

1. A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
2. A paving stone; a flagstone.
3. (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
4. An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
5. The slack part of a sail.
6. (US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
7. A very large wave.
8. The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
9. Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
10. A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
11. A region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.
12. A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make into a slab.
2. (informal, transitive) To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.

Adj

Thick; viscous.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/slæb/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: sclabbe

Verwandt mit Norwegisch: sleip

Verwandt mit Isländisch: sleipur

Verwandt mit Irisch: slaib

Verwandt mit Englisch: slop

In summary

From Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of uncertain origin; possibly from *slap, related to dialectal slappel (“portion, piece”), along with slape (“slippery”), sleip (“smooth piece of timber”), borrowed through Old Norse sleipr from Proto-Germanic *slaipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyb-. See also Norwegian sleip (“slippery”) and Icelandic sleipur.

Konzepte

Platte

Scheibe

Brett

Bramme

Roheisenblock

Schalbrett

Schwartenbrett

Tafel

zerschlagen

abschwarten

Fliese

Betonstraße

dicke Scheibe

Pflasterstein

Slawe

Steinplatte

in Bretter zersägen

flaches Brett

Kopfstein

Katzenkopf

Blech

Synonyme

plate

plank

board

flagstone

slice

tablet

sheet

flat stone

plaque

panel

piece

pane

block

cake

🍰

tile

spindle

chunk

bit

hardhead

hunch

lath

leaf

lithography

loggerhead

mat

memorial tablet

mire

monotony

mortar

mud

ooze

pack

particle

pile

portion

puddle

puke

ribbon

🎀

scale

screed

segment

silt

slate

slime

slosh

sludge

stack

stave

stone

🪨

thickhead

Übersetzungen

lastra

plaque

piastra

dalle

πλάκα

laje

tablet

plaat

plak

tabla

plancha

lámina

losa

chapa

frantumare

Sätze

The slab was hewn from heavy blocks of slate .

Die Platte wurde aus schweren Schieferblöcken gehauen.