▸ noun: A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat. ▸ noun: A paving stone; a flagstone. ▸ noun: (Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer). ▸ noun: An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc. ▸ noun: (nautical) The slack part of a sail. ▸ noun: (US, slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac. ▸ noun: (surfing) A very large wave. ▸ noun: (programming) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation. ▸ noun: (geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted. ▸ noun: (construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building. ▸ noun: (geometry) A 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. ▸ noun: A flat, sealed plastic case that encloses a flat collector's item, such as a coin or a trading card. ▸ verb: (transitive) To make into a slab. ▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To destroy (a structure) so completely as to leave only the foundation slab visible. ▸ noun: (archaic) Mud, sludge. ▸ adjective: (archaic) Thick; viscous. ▸ noun: (Southern US, slang) A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories. ▸ noun: (British dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wryneck. ▸ noun: (computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter. This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.
(Click a button above to see words related to "slab" that fit the given meter.)
