slab
Other forms: slabs; slabbed; slabbing
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.
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block consisting of a thick piece of somethingtypes:butcher block, butcher boarda thick wooden slab formed by bonding together thick laminated strips of unpainted hardwoodtableta slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscriptiontilea flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfacesabacusa tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architraveslate(formerly) a writing tablet made of slatetesseraa small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaicstype of:blocka solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
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