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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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ply
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /pla?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Etymology 1
From Middle English pleit, plit, plite (“a fold, pleat, wrinkle; braid, strand in a braided cord, ply”), from Anglo-Norman pli, plei, pleit, and Middle French pli, ploy, ply (“a fold, pleat; joint in armour; situation, state”) (modern French pli (“a fold, pleat”)), from plier, ployer (“to bend, fold”), from Latin plic?re, present active infinitive of plic? (“to bend, fold, roll up”), from Proto-Indo-European *ple?- (“to fold, plait, weave”).
Noun
ply (countable and uncountable, plural ply or plies or plys)
- A layer of material.
- A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
- (colloquial) Short for plywood.
- (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
Translations
Derived terms
- plywood
Etymology 2
From Middle English pl?en, pli, plie (“to bend, fold, mould, shape; to be flexible; to be submissive, humble oneself; to compel someone to submit”), from Anglo-Norman plier, plaier, pleier, ploier, and Middle French plier, ployer (“to bend, fold; to be submissive; to compel someone to submit”) (modern French plier, ployer), from Old French ploiier, pleier (“to fold”), from Latin plic?re (“to fold”); see further at etymology 1. The word is cognate with Catalan plegar (“to bend, fold”), Italian piegare (“to bend, fold, fold up”), Old Occitan plegar, plejar, pleyar (“to fold”) (modern Occitan plegar), Spanish plegar (“to fold”).
Verb
ply (third-person singular simple present plies, present participle plying, simple past and past participle plied)
- (transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
- (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
Derived terms
- plier (agent noun)
- pliers
Translations
Etymology 3
From apply; compare Middle English pl?en, pli, plie, pleie (“to place (something) around, on, or over, to cover; to apply, use; to strive”), short for apl?en, appl?en (“to combine, join; to attach; to assemble; to use, be of use; to allot; to apply; to inflict; to go; to ply, steer; to comply, submit”), from Old French applier, aplier, aploier (“to bend; to apply”), from Latin applic?re, present active infinitive of applic? (“to apply; to attach, join; to add”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + plic? (“to bend, fold, roll up”); see further at etymology 1.
Verb
ply (third-person singular simple present plies, present participle plying, simple past and past participle plied)
- (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
- (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
- (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
- (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
- (transitive, intransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
- (intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.
Translations
Noun
ply
- A bent; a direction.
References
Further reading
- ply (layer) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- ply (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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