Betekenis (English)
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- A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- A paving stone; a flagstone.
- A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
- An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
- The slack part of a sail.
- (slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
- A very large wave.
- The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
- A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
- 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.
Synonyms
flat stone
loggerhead
memorial tablet
paving-stone
flat board
polar plate
cut film
outside board
wood slab
flat solid
make into sheets
plate blank
flat blank
counter electrode
slab billet
sliced vencer
microtome section
flat bloom
flat section ingot
strip breakdown
abacus
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/slæb/
Etymologie (English)
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.
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