Slab
noun
A flat, thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid materials.
She set her cup on the marble slab of the table
Often appears as...
- marble slab
- concrete slab
noun
The act of surfing a large wave.
The surfer took on the slab and masterfully rode the wave
Often appears as...
- slab surfing
- slab wave
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Informal
Colloquial
noun
A large amount of a specific thing or in a specific form.
She ate a whole slab of cake
Often appears as...
- slab of cake
- slab of ice cream
noun
The foundation of a building or structure.
The construction workers poured concrete for the new slab
Often appears as...
- concrete slab
- building slab
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Technical
noun
A flat, thick piece of stone, wood, or other solid materials.
She set her cup on the marble slab of the table
Often appears as...
- marble slab
- concrete slab
noun
The act of surfing a large wave.
The surfer took on the slab and masterfully rode the wave
Often appears as...
- slab surfing
- slab wave
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A large amount of a specific thing or in a specific form.
She ate a whole slab of cake
Often appears as...
- slab of cake
- slab of ice cream
noun
The foundation of a building or structure.
The construction workers poured concrete for the new slab
Often appears as...
- concrete slab
- building slab
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Material Matters
A 'slab' often refers to a large piece of hard material for construction or art.
The artist carved his sculpture out of a single slab of granite.
Pro Tip 2/3Thickness Implied
'Slab' suggests thickness and solidity, differentiating it from thinner items like 'sheet' or 'plate'.
He placed the heavy slab of metal on the workbench.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Flat
While usually flat, 'slab' can still be applied to slightly irregular surfaces if thick and large.
A slab of rough-hewn stone served as the doorstep.
Pro Tip 1/3Material Matters
A 'slab' often refers to a large piece of hard material for construction or art.
The artist carved his sculpture out of a single slab of granite.
Pro Tip 2/3Thickness Implied
'Slab' suggests thickness and solidity, differentiating it from thinner items like 'sheet' or 'plate'.
He placed the heavy slab of metal on the workbench.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Flat
While usually flat, 'slab' can still be applied to slightly irregular surfaces if thick and large.
A slab of rough-hewn stone served as the doorstep.
Pro Tip 1/3Material Matters
A 'slab' often refers to a large piece of hard material for construction or art.
The artist carved his sculpture out of a single slab of granite.
Pro Tip 2/3Thickness Implied
'Slab' suggests thickness and solidity, differentiating it from thinner items like 'sheet' or 'plate'.
He placed the heavy slab of metal on the workbench.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Flat
While usually flat, 'slab' can still be applied to slightly irregular surfaces if thick and large.
A slab of rough-hewn stone served as the doorstep.
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How I climbed a...
They'd all hiked up the normal trail on the back, which I was planning on using for my descent. But between me and the summit lay a blank slab of granite. There were no cracks or edges to hold on to, just small ripples of texture up a slightly less than vertical wall. I had to trust my life to the friction between my climbing shoes
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A shark-deterrent...
with this sort of evidence that supports this sort of thinking. So biologically, there are plenty of species that display banding or patterns, warning patterns, to either be cryptical in the water or warn against being attacked, not the least of which is the pilot fish which spends a big slab of its life
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What's below the tip of...
many people think that these slabs of ice are barren of life, but these seemingly sterile ice slabs also harbor their own complex ecosystems and they shape the ecosystems that they pass through. They become mobile, floating ecosystems. Even in the coldest seas, icebergs are always melting,
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Making waves: The power...
In the polar regions, we see how this small local process effects global movement. In the arctic and antarctic, where ice slabs decorate the water's surface, there's little temperature difference between surface and deeper waters. It's all pretty cold. But salinity differs,
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Buildings that blend...
to help people get to know their neighbors, even when their homes are organized in the vertical dimension. So we invented a way to use balconies as the new social connectors. The shapes of the floor slabs vary slightly and they transition as you go up the tower.
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Melinda French Gates:...
But what we're finding around the world, over and over again, is, if you build a toilet and you leave it there, it doesn't get used. People reuse it for a slab for their home. They sometimes store grain in it. I've even seen it used for a chicken coop.
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The genius of...
The periodic table is instantly recognizable. It's not just in every chemistry lab worldwide, it's found on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and shower curtains. But the periodic table isn't just another trendy icon. It's a massive slab of human genius,
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How to rebuild the world...
these are clearly ways of harnessing natural energy sources to save the labour of our own muscles and the most important part is a pair of cylindrical slabs the mill stones which turn over each other and grind that grain into
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Palenque and the Ancient...
have upright monuments out in isolated clauses and things that that Palenque instead given the great limestone sources they had put big slabs on the walls of the temples and this helped to preserve the inscriptions and the
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Deadly Killer Whale...
awesome destructive power under the water tail slabs are used to stun the herring some fish come too quickly and escape back to the safety of the shoal
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How I climbed a...
They'd all hiked up the normal trail on the back, which I was planning on using for my descent. But between me and the summit lay a blank slab of granite. There were no cracks or edges to hold on to, just small ripples of texture up a slightly less than vertical wall. I had to trust my life to the friction between my climbing shoes
Video examples
A shark-deterrent...
with this sort of evidence that supports this sort of thinking. So biologically, there are plenty of species that display banding or patterns, warning patterns, to either be cryptical in the water or warn against being attacked, not the least of which is the pilot fish which spends a big slab of its life
Video examples
What's below the tip of...
many people think that these slabs of ice are barren of life, but these seemingly sterile ice slabs also harbor their own complex ecosystems and they shape the ecosystems that they pass through. They become mobile, floating ecosystems. Even in the coldest seas, icebergs are always melting,
Video examples
Making waves: The power...
In the polar regions, we see how this small local process effects global movement. In the arctic and antarctic, where ice slabs decorate the water's surface, there's little temperature difference between surface and deeper waters. It's all pretty cold. But salinity differs,
Video examples
Buildings that blend...
to help people get to know their neighbors, even when their homes are organized in the vertical dimension. So we invented a way to use balconies as the new social connectors. The shapes of the floor slabs vary slightly and they transition as you go up the tower.
Video examples
Melinda French Gates:...
But what we're finding around the world, over and over again, is, if you build a toilet and you leave it there, it doesn't get used. People reuse it for a slab for their home. They sometimes store grain in it. I've even seen it used for a chicken coop.
Video examples
The genius of...
The periodic table is instantly recognizable. It's not just in every chemistry lab worldwide, it's found on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and shower curtains. But the periodic table isn't just another trendy icon. It's a massive slab of human genius,
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
these are clearly ways of harnessing natural energy sources to save the labour of our own muscles and the most important part is a pair of cylindrical slabs the mill stones which turn over each other and grind that grain into
Video examples
Palenque and the Ancient...
have upright monuments out in isolated clauses and things that that Palenque instead given the great limestone sources they had put big slabs on the walls of the temples and this helped to preserve the inscriptions and the
Video examples
Deadly Killer Whale...
awesome destructive power under the water tail slabs are used to stun the herring some fish come too quickly and escape back to the safety of the shoal
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Quote examples
Piyush Goyal
Indian Politician
As more and more money is coming into the formal economy, one can look at more attractive tax rates and lower tax slabs. Even if half the people who were in the informal sector move in to the formal economy and more taxes get collected, more money can be spent on the welfare.
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Kyle Hill
American Author
We brick-and-mortar ourselves away from nature. The outside world is behind glass, underneath a slab of concrete, running through PVC. Our steel and concrete are suitable enough until nature comes knocking. And when she wants to get in, nothing can stop her.
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Hugh Dennis
I travelled across Canada on the Canadian Pacific Railway when I was 18. I didnt realise how long the journey was - four days - and I didnt buy enough food. All I had was four slabs of Philadelphia cream cheese and some biscuits.
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J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
American Chef
In those rare cases in which you have a dull knife and cooking to do, but no ceramic in sight, the top edge of a rolled-down car window will work just as well. Even a smooth stone or slab of concrete outside can work in a pinch.
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Charles Jencks
American Architect
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
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Anthony Doerr
American Writer
Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.
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Michael Sheen
Welsh Actor
I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.
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David Linley
British Royalty
My dining room table is just a huge, great thick slab of oak on a beautiful frame. Whenever people come to supper I invite them to carve their name in it.
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Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
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Keeley Hawes
English Actress
When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.
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Piyush Goyal
Indian Politician
As more and more money is coming into the formal economy, one can look at more attractive tax rates and lower tax slabs. Even if half the people who were in the informal sector move in to the formal economy and more taxes get collected, more money can be spent on the welfare.
Quote examples
Kyle Hill
American Author
We brick-and-mortar ourselves away from nature. The outside world is behind glass, underneath a slab of concrete, running through PVC. Our steel and concrete are suitable enough until nature comes knocking. And when she wants to get in, nothing can stop her.
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Hugh Dennis
I travelled across Canada on the Canadian Pacific Railway when I was 18. I didnt realise how long the journey was - four days - and I didnt buy enough food. All I had was four slabs of Philadelphia cream cheese and some biscuits.
Quote examples
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
American Chef
In those rare cases in which you have a dull knife and cooking to do, but no ceramic in sight, the top edge of a rolled-down car window will work just as well. Even a smooth stone or slab of concrete outside can work in a pinch.
Quote examples
Charles Jencks
American Architect
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
Quote examples
Anthony Doerr
American Writer
Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.
Quote examples
Michael Sheen
Welsh Actor
I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.
Quote examples
David Linley
British Royalty
My dining room table is just a huge, great thick slab of oak on a beautiful frame. Whenever people come to supper I invite them to carve their name in it.
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Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
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Keeley Hawes
English Actress
When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.
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