slab : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: slab	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for slab
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slab n block consisting of a thick piece of something
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slab \Slab\, n. [OE. slabbe, of uncertain origin; perhaps originally meaning, a smooth piece, and akin to slape, Icel. sleipr slippery, and E. slip, v. i.] 1. A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces. --Gwilt. 2. An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.] 4. (Naut.) The slack part of a sail. {Slab line} (Naut.), a line or small rope by which seamen haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail. --Totten.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slab \Slab\, a. [Cf. Gael. & Ir. slaib mud, mire left on a river strand, and E. slop puddle.] Thick; viscous. [Obs.] Make the gruel thick and slab. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Slab \Slab\, n. That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
slab [Apple] 1. n. A continuous horizontal line of pixels, all with the same color. 2. vi. To paint a slab on an output device. Apple's QuickDraw, like most other professional-level graphics systems, renders polygons and lines not with Bresenham's algorithm, but by calculating `slab points' for each scan line on the screen in succession, and then slabbing in the actual image pixels.