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A thick, flat piece of something hard, like stone, concrete, or a large piece of meat or chocolate.
厚板；一大塊
組成It does not split into pieces; no one is fully sure where the word first came from.
原始詞典資料21 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
slabnoun詞源 1/slæb/
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A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- 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.
- Then there was the Mexican who sold big slabs of chewing taffy for five cents each. […] And many a day I made my entire lunch off of one of those slabs.
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A paving stone; a flagstone.
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A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
- The Australians murder a few slabs of beer and the New Zealanders murder a few vowels.
- The older man bought a slab of Coca-Cola at the counter and carried it out ahead of the younger man.
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An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
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nauticaltransportThe slack part of a sail.
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hobbieslifestylesportsA very large wave.
- After being towed into a massive slab, Dorian dropped down the face and caught a rail, putting him in a near-impossible situation.
- In August 2000 he successfully rode a slab of unfathomable power at Teahupo′o.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesPart of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
- Being driven by the gravitational force, the subducting Pacific slab continues to sink down to the boundary between the upper and lower mantle […]
另外 5 個記錄的用法
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businessconstructionmanufacturingA poured-concrete foundation for a building.
- Next week they'll pour the slab that the shed will sit on.
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geometrymathematicssciencesA region between two parallel lines in the Euclidean plane, or between two parallel planes in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or between two hyperplanes in higher dimensions.
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economicsgovernmentsciencesAny of the several portions or tiers in a tax rate plan.
- Near-synonym: tax bracket
- The 56th meeting of the GST Council [for the Goods and Services Tax] on September 3, 2025 will be remembered as a defining milestone in India's tax history. These reforms go far beyond tax rates and structures. They represent a decisive shift towards a simpler, fairer, and growth-oriented system that is aligned with the aspirations of a Viksit Bharat 2047. A long-standing demand of both industry and consumers has been simplification of the multiple GST slabs (5%, 12%, 18%, and 28%). The move to a transparent “Simple Tax”, with just two rates, 18% as the Standard Rate and 5% as the Merit Rate, along with a 40% de-merit rate for a select few goods — is transformational.
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A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card.
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slangA large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
- Video screens have also become a standard part of slab interiors.
- After a few loops around the park, some drivers—most of them Black and Latino men in their twenties and thirties driving customized lowriders, bright, candy-colored slabs, and jacked-up trucks with flashy chrome rims—packed into a nearby middle school parking lot.
slabverb詞源 1/slæb/
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To make into a slab.
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informalTo destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible.
- Multiple homes were slabbed by the monster tornado.
slabnoun詞源 2/slæb/
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archaicMud, sludge, or other viscous matter.
- 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;[…].
slabadj詞源 2/slæb/
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archaicThick; viscous.
- Make the gruel thick and slab:
slabnoun詞源 3/slæb/
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slangA car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
- Pull me over, try to check my slab
- I'mma swang, I'mma swing my slab lean to the left
slabnoun詞源 4/slæb/
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obsoletedialectalA bird, the wryneck.
slabnoun詞源 5/slæb/
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computingengineeringmathematicsA sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。