İngilizce dilinde "slab" tanımı

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).

   • 2008, Diem Vo, Family Life, Alice Pung (editor), page 156, However, unlike in Ramsay Street, there were never any cups of tea or bickies served. Instead, each family unit came armed with a slab of beer.

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

5. (nautical) The slack part of a sail.

6. (surfing) A very large wave.

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

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

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

   • Next week they'll pour the slab that the shed will sit on.

10. (geometry) 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.

11. (taxation, especially India) Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.

    • Near-synonym: tax bracket

12. A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.

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

14. (physical geography) Ellipsis of slab avalanche.

verb

1. (transitive) To make into a slab.

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

   • Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.

noun

1. (archaic) Mud, sludge, or other viscous matter.

adjective

1. (archaic) Thick; viscous.

noun

1. (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.

   • Pull me over, try to check my slab
   • I'mma swang, I'mma swing my slab lean to the left

noun

1. (British dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wryneck.