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# slab

«slab» in Mova's school dictionary: **a thick, flat piece of something hard, like stone…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a slab, slabs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A slab is a thick, flat piece of something hard, like stone, concrete or wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/#m1)

2) A slab can be a thick, flat piece of food, such as a slab of cake or chocolate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/#m2)

3) In building, a slab is a flat concrete floor or base. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, paths and patios are made of paving slabs; in stories, an old slab of stone covers a secret tunnel. In maths, a slab is like a cuboid, so you can work out its area or volume. Phrases: «paving slab», «stone slab», «slab of cake».

### examples

- The path was made of grey stone slabs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/#x1)
- He cut a huge slab of chocolate cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/#x2)
- Workers poured a concrete slab for the shed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/#x3)
- A heavy slab covered the old well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/#x4)
- Be careful: that paving slab is loose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/#x5)
- The butcher cut a slab of meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/#x6)
- The garden has twelve slabs in three rows of four. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/#x7)
- A heavy stone slab was turned and then lifted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/#x8)

### note

Countable noun: «a slab, slabs». A slab is thick and flat; a «sheet» is thin and flat. In maths, a path of slabs in rows and columns is an array: rows × columns = number of slabs.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slab» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slab/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.