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slab
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /slæb/
- Rhymes: -æb
Etymology 1
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.
Noun
slab (plural slabs)
- A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- 1859, John Lang, Botany Bay, or, True Tales of Early Australia, page 155,
- There were no windows in the inn. They were not required, since the interstices between the slabs suffered the wind, the rain, and the light of day to penetrate simultaneously.
- 1913, Jack London, John Barleycorn, 2008, page 14,
- Then there was the Mexican who sold big slabs of chewing taffy for five cents each.
- 2010, Ryan Humphreys, The Flirtations of Dan Harris, page 73,
- “The pier? You mean those few sodden logs tied together and that dingy slab of rough concrete.”
- 1859, John Lang, Botany Bay, or, True Tales of Early Australia, page 155,
- A paving stone; a flagstone.
- (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans of beer.
- 2001, Les Carlyon, Gallipoli, page 8,
- The Australians murder a few slabs of beer and the New Zealanders murder a few vowels.
- 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.
- 2010, Holly Smith, Perth, Western Australia & the Outback, Hunter Publishing, unnumbered page,
- Common 375-ml cans are called tinnies, and can be bought in 24-can slabs for discounted prices.
- 2009, Ross Fitzgerald, Trevor Jordan, Under the Influence: A History of Alcohol in Australia, 2011, unnumbered page,
- One essential part of the strategy for selling regionally identified beers beyond their borders was the selling of slabs — a package of four six-packs of stubbies or cans — for discounted prices interstate.
- 2001, Les Carlyon, Gallipoli, page 8,
- An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
- A bird, the wryneck.
- (nautical) The slack part of a sail.
- (US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
- (surfing) A very large wave.
- 2009, Bruce Boal, The Surfing Yearbook, SurfersVillage, page 31,
- After being towed into a massive slab, Dorian dropped down the face and caught a rail, putting him in a near-impossible situation.
- 2011, Douglas Booth, Surfing: The Ultimate Guide, page 95,
- In August 2000 he successfully rode a slab of unfathomable power at Teahupo?o.
- 2009, Bruce Boal, The Surfing Yearbook, SurfersVillage, page 31,
- (computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
- (computing) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being subducted.
- 2015, Dapeng Zhao, Multiscale Seismic Tomography, Springer, page 72,
- Being driven by the gravitational force, the subducting Pacific slab continues to sink down to the boundary between the upper and lower mantle...
- 2015, Dapeng Zhao, Multiscale Seismic Tomography, Springer, page 72,
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
slab (third-person singular simple present slabs, present participle slabbing, simple past and past participle slabbed)
- (transitive) To make something into a slab.
Etymology 2
Compare Goidelic and Irish slaib (“mud, mire left on a river strand”), and English slop (“puddle”).
Noun
slab (plural slabs)
- (archaic) Mud, sludge.
- 1664, John Evelyn, Sylva, Or A Discourse of Forest Trees, Volume 1,
- Some do also plant oziers in their eights, like quick-sets, thick, and (near the water) keep them not more than half a foot above ground; but then they must be diligently cleansed from moss, slab, and ouze, and frequently prun'd (especially the smaller spires) to form single shoots; […] .
- 1664, John Evelyn, Sylva, Or A Discourse of Forest Trees, Volume 1,
Derived terms
- slabby
Adjective
slab (comparative more slab, superlative most slab)
- (archaic) Thick; viscous.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1,[2]
- Make the gruel thick and slab:
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1,[2]
Etymology 3
Acronym of Slow, Loud And Bangin'. This term been popularized through the southern rap genre of hip-hop, most notably by rappers such as Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Lil' Keke, and others.
Noun
slab (plural slabs)
- (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
- 2005, Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone), "Ridin'", The Sound of Revenge:
- Pull me over, try to check my slab
- 2006, Trae (featuring Pimp C and Big Hawk), "Swang", Restless:
- I'mma swang, I'mma swing my slab lean to the left
- 2012, Bobby Austin, By All Mean$, AuthorHouse (2012), ?ISBN, page 56:
- All three of them recognized who the Lexus'[sic] belonged to so he parked his slab and they cocked their guns.
- 2005, Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone), "Ridin'", The Sound of Revenge:
References
- slab in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- B.L.A.S., BALs, BASL, BLAs, LABs, Labs, albs, labs
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- slabu
Etymology
From a Slavic language, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *slàb?. Compare Romanian slab, Bulgarian and Macedonian ???? (slab), Serbo-Croatian sl?b.
Adjective
slab m (feminine slabã, masculine plural slaghi, feminine plural slabi or slabe)
- weak
- lean, thin, skinny
- bad, wicked, evil
Synonyms
- (bad): arãu
Antonyms
- (weak): vãrtos, cadãr, putut, ndrumin, silnãos
- (thin, lean): gras
- (bad): bun
Derived terms
- slãbintsã
- slãbushcu
Related terms
- slãghescu
Noun
slab m
- evil
Synonyms
- arãu, rãu
Derived terms
- slabã
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
slab f (plural slabben, diminutive slabbetje n)
- (also very common in the diminutive) bib
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English slab
Noun
slab m (invariable)
- slab (of metal to be worked)
- Synonym: bramma
Romanian
Etymology
From Slavic, from Proto-Slavic *slàb?. Compare Aromanian slab, Bulgarian and Macedonian ???? (slab), Serbo-Croatian sl?b.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [slab]
Adjective
slab m or n (feminine singular slab?, masculine plural slabi, feminine and neuter plural slabe)
- weak
- thin, skinny
Declension
Antonyms
- (weak): puternic
- (thin): gras
Related terms
See also
- sub?ire
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *slàb?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /slâb/
Adjective
sl?b (definite sl?b?, comparative slabiji, Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- weak
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *slàb?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sláp/
Adjective
sl?b (comparative sl?bši, superlative n?jsl?bši)
- bad (not good)
- weak
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- presl?b
Further reading
- “slab”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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bed
English
Etymology
From Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd (“bed, couch, resting-place; garden-bed, plot”), from Proto-Germanic *badj? (“plot, grave, resting-place, bed”), perhaps (if originally "dug sleeping-place") from Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to dig”). Cognate with Scots bed, bede (“bed”), North Frisian baad, beed (“bed”), West Frisian bêd (“bed”), Low German Bedd, Dutch bed (“bed”), German Bett (“bed”), Danish bed, Swedish bädd (“bed”), Icelandic beður (“bed”), and (through Proto-Indo-European, if the above etymology is correct) with Ancient Greek ??????? (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian ?????? (bodat?, “to butt, to gore”).
The traditional etymology as a derivation from the Proto-Indo-European verb for 'to dig' has been doubted, arguing that there are (allegedly) few, if any, cultures known to dig out beds, rather than to build "pads". However, what the Germanic word originally referred to is not known with precision, and it notably has the additional meaning "flower-bed, plot", which is preserved in English and several other modern Germanic languages, but present in older stages as well. Additionally, the term may have originally been used in the sense of a "burial plot" for laying those who were asleep in death, and from there extended also to symbolise a place where one slept in general (In Modern German, two separate words exist, Bett being the normal term, the rare variant Beet having been adopted for “flower-bed”). Perhaps the word originally referred to dug sleeping-places of animals, compare (with the inverse semantic development) lair from Old English le?er (“couch, bed”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /b?d/
- (AAVE, some speakers) IPA(key): [be?]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /bed/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
bed (plural beds)
- A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (figuratively) Marriage.
- George, the eldest son of his second bed.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. [from later 16thc.]
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18, [1]
- I knew that there were kelp beds and reefs which could rip the bottoms from boats down in Skedans Bay.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18, [1]
- A garden plot.
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- Synonym: tray
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- (printing, dated) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. [from later 16thc.]
- (heading) A layer or surface.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- Synonyms: layer, stratum
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
Usage notes
Sense 1. To prepare a bed is usually to "make" the bed, or (US, Southern) to "spread" the bed, the verb spread probably having been developed from bedspread.Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, bed requires no article after certain prepositions: hence in bed (“lying in a bed”), go to bed (“get into a bed”), and so on. The forms in a bed, etc. do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the bed, without it being for the purpose of sleep.
See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Derived terms
Descendants
- Chichewa: bedi
- Chuukese: pet
- Japanese: ??? (beddo)
Translations
See bed/translations § Noun.
Verb
bed (third-person singular simple present beds, present participle bedding, simple past and past participle bedded)
- Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
- (intransitive) To go to bed.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration
- To put oneself to sleep. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse with. [from early 14th c.]
- Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- 1730, William Forbes, The Institutes of the Law of Scotland (page 121)
- And he who lies with another Man's Wife after she is married, even before her Husband had bedded with her, is guilty of Adultery, […]
- Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
- Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
- 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
Derived terms
- bed down
- embed
Translations
See bed/translations § Verb.
Further reading
- bed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- BDE, DBE, DEB, Deb, Deb., EBD, Edb., deb
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch bed, from Middle Dutch bedde, from Old Dutch bedde, from Proto-Germanic *badj?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?t/
Noun
bed (plural beddens, diminutive bedjie)
- bed
- Synonym: kooi
Breton
Alternative forms
- béd (Skolveurieg)
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *b?d, from Proto-Celtic *bitus. Cognates include Welsh byd and Cornish bys.
Noun
bed m (plural bedoù)
- world
- universe
Mutation
References
- Ian Press (1986) A grammar of modern Breton, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 322
Danish
Etymology 1
From German Beet (“bed for plants”), originally the same word as Bett (“bed for sleeping”), from Proto-Germanic *badj?, cognate with English bed and Swedish bädd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?eð]
Noun
bed n (singular definite bedet, plural indefinite bede)
- bed (a garden plot)
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Old Norse beit f (“pasturage”), Old Norse beita f (“bait”), from Proto-Germanic *bait? (“food, bait”), cognate with German Beize (“mordant”) (whence Danish bejdse).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?e?ð], [?b?eð?]
Noun
bed (definitive plural bedene)
- (obsolete) pasturage
- only in the expression: gå nogen i bedene "poach on someone's preserves"
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?e?ð], [?b?eð?]
Verb
bed
- past tense of bide
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?e?], (solemnly) IPA(key): [?b?e?ð], [?b?eð?]
Verb
bed
- imperative of bede
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch bedde, from Old Dutch bedde, from Proto-Germanic *badj?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?t/
- Hyphenation: bed
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
bed n (plural bedden, diminutive bedje n)
- bed (furniture for sleeping)
- (garden, agriculture) patch, bed
- layer, often a substratum
- bed of a body of water
- 1950, Willy van der Heide, Drie jongens op een onbewoond eiland, Stenvert.
- Op een gegeven ogenblik stieten ze op een uitgedroogde beekbedding; het bed van de beek was naakte lava.
- 1950, Willy van der Heide, Drie jongens op een onbewoond eiland, Stenvert.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: bed
Kriol
Etymology 1
From English bird.
Noun
bed
- bird
Etymology 2
From English bed.
Noun
bed
- bed
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?d
Adjective
bed
- bad
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From German Beet
Noun
bed n (definite singular bedet, indefinite plural bed, definite plural beda or bedene)
- (horticulture) a bed (for plants)
Derived terms
- blomsterbed
Etymology 2
Verb
bed
- imperative of bede
References
- “bed” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From German Beet.
Noun
bed n (definite singular bedet, indefinite plural bed, definite plural beda)
- (horticulture) a bed (for plants)
Derived terms
- blomsterbed
Etymology 2
Verb
bed
- present tense of beda
- imperative of beda
Etymology 3
From Old Norse beðr.
Noun
bed m (definite singular beden, indefinite plural bedar, definite plural bedane)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by bedd
References
- “bed” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bed/
Noun
bed n
- Alternative form of bedd
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?eð/
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
·bed
- third-person singular past subjunctive of at·tá
Alternative forms
- ·beth
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
bed
- inflection of is:
- third-person singular past subjunctive
- third-person singular/second-person plural imperative
- third-person singular conditional relative
Alternative forms
- bad (3 sg. past subj.; 3 sg. and 2 pl. imperative)
Mutation
Old Saxon
Alternative forms
- beddi
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *badj? (“dug sleeping-place”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to dig”). Cognate with Old Frisian bed, Old English bedd, Dutch bed, Old High German betti, Old Norse beðr, Gothic ???????????????? (badi). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ??????? (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd, Breton bez (“grave”).
Noun
bed n
- bed
- (Heliand, verse 2309)
Declension
Descendants
- Middle Low German: bedde
- Low German: Bett
- Dutch Low Saxon: bedde
- German Low German: Bedd
- Plautdietsch: Bad, Bed
- ? Icelandic: beddi
- Low German: Bett
Swedish
Verb
bed (contracted be)
- imperative of bedja.
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English bed and German Bett.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bed/
Noun
bed (nominative plural beds)
- bed
Declension
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