slab
/slæb/ nom C2En français : chape, dalle
- A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
- A paving stone; a flagstone.
- An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
- The slack part of a sail.
- A very large wave.
- The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
- Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
- A poured-concrete foundation for a building. · Next week they'll pour the slab that the shed will sit on.
Pluriel slabs
Dans la bibliothèque
Anne evidently got through her visit without any serious breach of “etiquette,” for she came home through the twilight, under a great, high-sprung sky gloried over with trails of saffron and rosy cloud, in a beatified state of mind and told Marilla all about it happily, sitting on the big red-sandstone slab at the kitchen door with her tired curly head in Marilla’s gingham lap.
The prize-fighter, a heavily built young man with a stupid, obstinate, slab-sided face, stood awkwardly at the door, looking about him with a puzzled expression.
I had remembered him as a long, slab-sided man with loose limbs and a fine turn of speed, which had carried him round many an opposing back.
It was a large, straggling building, very old in the centre, very new at the wings, with towering Tudor chimneys and a lichen-spotted, high-pitched roof of Horsham slabs.
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