| 单词 | slab |
| 释义 | slab (once / 936 pages) n A slab is a great big thick piece of something. Your backyard patio, for example, might be made of a huge slab of concrete. A sidewalk is often composed of one cement slab after another — these are sometimes called paving slabs. You could refer to large pieces of stone or wood as slabs too. Even your lunch might be a slab, if it's a thick hunk of cheesy pizza or a huge slab of bread slathered with peanut butter. The origins of the word slab are unknown, though we do know it's been around since the thirteenth century. WORD FAMILYslab: slabbed, slabbing, slabs USAGE EXAMPLESGoodness, part of the pregame Rose Bowl revelry includes an event where the players are rewarded for eating giant slabs of meat. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) White and yellow bass are good on slabs. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) That slab must now be broken apart and repoured, said the building’s owner, George Petrie, president of Goodman Real Estate in Seattle. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) n block consisting of a thick piece of something Hypo|Hyper butcher block, butcher board a thick wooden slab formed by bonding together thick laminated strips of unpainted hardwood tableta slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription tilea flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces abacusa tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave slate(formerly) a writing tablet made of slate tesseraa small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics block a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) |
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