slab

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
    — There were no windows in the inn. They were not required, since the interstices between the slabs suffered the wind, the rain, and the light of day to penetrate simultaneously.
  2. A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
  3. A bird, the wryneck. British,dialectal,obsolete
  4. A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories. Southern-US,slang
    — Pull me over, try to check my slab
  5. Mud, sludge, or other viscous matter. archaic,uncountable
    — Some do also plant oziers in their eights, like quick-sets, thick, and (near the water) keep them not more than half a foot above ground; but then they must be diligently cleansed from moss, slab, and ouze, and frequently prun'd (especially the smaller spires) to form single shoots;[…].
  6. A paving stone; a flagstone.
  7. A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer). Australia
    — The Australians murder a few slabs of beer and the New Zealanders murder a few vowels.
  8. An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
  9. The slack part of a sail.
  10. A very large wave.
    — After being towed into a massive slab, Dorian dropped down the face and caught a rail, putting him in a near-impossible situation.
  11. The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
  12. Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
    — Being driven by the gravitational force, the subducting Pacific slab continues to sink down to the boundary between the upper and lower mantle […]
  13. A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
    — Next week they'll pour the slab that the shed will sit on.
  14. 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.
  15. Any of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan. India,especially
    — Near-synonym: tax bracket
  16. A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
  17. A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac. US,slang
    — Video screens have also become a standard part of slab interiors.
  18. Ellipsis of slab avalanche. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,physical
动词 v.
  1. To make into a slab. transitive
  2. To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible. informal,transitive
    — Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.
形容词 adj.
  1. Thick; viscous. archaic
    — Make the gruel thick and slab:

词形变化

slabs plural slabs present,singular,third-person slabbing participle,present slabbed participle,past slabbed past slabber comparative more slab comparative slabbest superlative most slab superlative slabs plural slabs plural slabs plural

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Compare Scottish Gaelic slàib (“mud”) and Irish slaba (“muddy flat”), and English slop (“puddle”).
词源 3
Acronym of Slow, Loud And Bangin'. This term been popularized through the southern rap genre of hip-hop, most notably by rappers such as Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Lil' Keke, and others.
词源 4
From syllable.
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