SLAB (slabbed, slabbing)

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Irregular inflected forms: slabbed    , slabbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does slab mean? 

• SLAB (noun)
  The noun SLAB has 1 sense:

1. block consisting of a thick piece of something

  Familiarity information: SLAB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Block consisting of a thick piece of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("slab" is a kind of...):

block (a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slab"):

butcher block; butcher board (a thick wooden slab formed by bonding together thick laminated strips of unpainted hardwood)

tablet (a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription)

tile (a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces)

 Context examples 

He drew a sovereign from his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Agarose and acrylamide in a cylindrical tube or slab gel are commonly used media for electrophoresis of proteins and nucleic acids.

(Gel Electrophoresis, NCI Thesaurus)

Or had some sudden blow from her hand dashed the support away and sent the slab crashing down into its place?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Our judgment must still be in abeyance," said Professor Challenger, with a huge slab of whitish-colored flesh across his knee.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This differs from the use of slab collimators whose many holes define lines of response from a single gamma emission.

(Electronic Collimation, NCI Thesaurus)

He pointed to a stone at our feet which had been laid down as a slab, on which the seat was rested, close to the edge of the cliff.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

An enhancement of immunoelectrophoresis in which a series of post-electrophoretic gel slabs are layered with cellulose-acetate gels saturated with specific antibodies.

(Immunofixation, NCI Thesaurus)

Others, with slabs of bacon and joints of dried meat upon the ends of their pikes, held them up to the blaze or tore at them ravenously with their teeth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Megalithic necropolises of Panoría and El Barranquete are cemeteries characterised by tombs built out of large stone slabs or masonry walls.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Little had been left besides the framework of the house, but in one corner there was a stone slab laid down by way of hearth and an old rusty iron basket to contain the fire.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)