slab

Anlam (İngilizce)

Noun

1. A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
2. A paving stone; a flagstone.
3. 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. (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.

Verb

To make something into a slab.

Adj

Thick; viscous.

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/slæb/

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

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.

Cümleler

The slab was hewn from heavy blocks of slate .

Döşeme ağır arduvaz bloklarından kesildi.