slab

n.

1. A broad, flat, thick piece, as of stone or cheese.
2. An outside piece cut from a log when squaring it for lumber.
3. Baseball. The pitcher's rubber.

tr.v., slabbed, slab·bing, slabs.

1. To make or shape into slabs or a slab.
2. To cover or pave with slabs.
3. To dress (a log) by cutting slabs.

[Middle English.]

slab² (slăb)
adj. Archaic
Viscid.

[Probably of Scandinavian origin, akin to Danish slab, mud.]

A poured concrete building foundation. Most houses that are built on slabs lack basements.
Example: Most new houses in the Southwest are built on slabs. Wooden forms are used to contain the concrete, which is poured from a cement mixer, until it cures. Building codes govern the minimum thickness of the slab.

noun

A relatively long, straight, rigid piece of metal or other solid material: bar, bloom², rod, shaft, stick. See thing.

1. n. A continuous horizontal line of pixels, all with the same color.

2. vi. To paint a slab on an output device. Apple's QuickDraw, like most other professional-level graphics systems, renders polygons and lines not with Bresenham's algorithm, but by calculating slab points for each scan line on the screen in succession, and then slabbing in the actual image pixels.

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1. The upper part of a reinforced concrete floor, which is carried on beams below.
2. A concrete mat poured on subgrade, serving as a floor rather than as a structural member.
3. A flat thick slice or plate of material such as stone, wood, concrete, etc.

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - flise
v. tr. - fliselægge

2.
adj. - tyktflydende

Nederlands (Dutch)
plak, plaat, plat en rechthoekig stuk steen

Français (French)
1.
n. - dalle, pavé, plaque, plaquette, étal, billard (fam), table d'opération, table d'autopsie
v. tr. - faire/former une dalle, paver de dalles

2.
adj. - visqueux, gluant

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Scheibe, Tafel, Platte
v. - (tech.) abschwarten

2.
adj. - klebrig, dickflüssig

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πλάκα, φέτα (κέικ κ.λπ.), (μτφ.) χειρουργικό τραπέζι, μαρμαροτράπεζο νεκροτομείου

Italiano (Italian)
fetta, lastra

Português (Portuguese)
n. - laje (f), quadro-negro (m), lâmina (f)

Русский (Russian)
большой кусок, брусок (сыра), плита, верх стола, откидной столик, прилавок, горбыль, плоская заготовка, выкладывать плитами, срезать горбыли, густая вязкая масса, жидкая грязь, вязкий

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - laja, lastra
v. tr. - cubrir de losas, planchas, etc, aplanar (la superficie de), aplicar en capa espesa

2.
adj. - viscoso

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - platta, häll, tjock skiva, kaka

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 平板, 厚的切片, 切成厚板, 以平板盖上

2. 粘稠的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
adj. - 粘稠的

2.
n. - 平板, 厚的切片
v. tr. - 切成厚板, 以平板蓋上

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 평석, (음식 등의) 두툼한 조각, (야구) 투수판
v. tr. - (목재를) 널판으로 잘라내다, 두껍게 얹다

2.
adj. - 끈적끈적한, 감상적인, 과장 표현이 많은

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 厚い平板, 厚い一切れ, 平板
v. - 厚板にする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شريحه, بلاطه, لوح‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮לוח, לוח-אבן, טבלה, פרוסה עבה‬
v. tr. - ‮חטב לוחות עץ עבים כדי לעשות מהם קרשים‬
adj. - ‮צמיג, דביק‬

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