slab

slab
    n 1: block consisting of a thick piece of something
    

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.
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   2. An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it
      into boards, planks, etc.
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   3. (Zool.) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]
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   4. (Naut.) The slack part of a sail.
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   {Slab line} (Naut.), a line or small rope by which seamen
      haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail. --Totten.
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Slab \Slab\, a. [Cf. Gael. & Ir. slaib mud, mire left on a river
   strand, and E. slop puddle.]
   Thick; viscous. [Obs.]
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         Make the gruel thick and slab.           --Shak.
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Slab \Slab\, n.
   That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a
   puddle. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
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slab


   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.
    

106 Moby Thesaurus words for "slab":
      bar, beam, billet, board, boarding, chunk, clapboard, coat,
      coating, collop, cord, cordwood, covering, cut, deal, disk,
      driftwood, feuille, film, firewood, flap, foil, fold, glop, gunk,
      hardwood, hunk, ingot, lamella, lamina, laminated glass,
      laminated wood, lap, lath, lathing, lathwork, leaf, log, lumber,
      lump, membrane, mire, muck, ooze, pane, panel, panelboard,
      paneling, panelwork, patina, peel, pellicle, piece, plait, plank,
      planking, plate, plating, ply, plyboard, plywood, pole, post,
      puncheon, rasher, rod, safety glass, scum, shake, sheathing,
      sheathing board, sheet, sheeting, shingle, sideboard, siding, skin,
      slat, slice, slime, slob, slop, slosh, sludge, slum, slush,
      softwood, splat, splosh, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood,
      strip, table, tablet, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork,
      two-by-four, veneer, wafer, weatherboard, wedge, wood