slab

CEFRB2

/slæb/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A thick, flat piece of material.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).

Examples

  • A heavy stone slab was lowered over the grave.

  • The amount of concrete needed to make this slab is immense.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A paving stone; a flagstone.

  2. A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.

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

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In context

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

  • 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.

  • Near-synonym: tax bracket

Synonyms

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The worker carefully placed the heavy concrete blank into position for the new sidewalk.

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Origin

noun

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.