slab

US: /ˈsɫæb/

UK: /slˈæb/



English - Vietnamese dictionary

slab /slæb/
  • danh từ
    • phiến đá mỏng
    • tấm ván bìa
    • thanh, tấm
      • slab of chocolate: thanh sôcôla
  • ngoại động từ
    • bóc bìa, xẻ bìa (gỗ)
    • lát bằng tấm, lát bằng phiến
    • tính từ
      • (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) nhớ, đặt dính


    Advanced English dictionary

    + noun
    1 a thick flat piece of stone, wood or other hard material: a slab of marble / concrete + The road was paved with smooth stone slabs. + paving slabs + a dead body on the slab (= on a table in a MORTUARY)
    2 a thick, flat slice or piece of sth: a slab of chocolate + slabs of meat

    Thesaurus dictionary

    n.
    slice, wedge, piece, hunk, chunk, tranche, Colloq Brit wodge:
    The keeper threw a large slab of meat into the lion's cage.


    Collocation

    ADJ.

    great, huge, large
    They were unloading great slabs of rock.
    | thick | paving | mortuary

    PREP.

    on a/the ~
    corpses laid out on cold mortuary slabs
    | ~ of
    a slab of butter/chocolate/concrete/meat



    Concise dictionary

    slabbed|slabbing|slabsslæb
    noun
    +block consisting of a thick piece of something


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