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slab |
5 definitions found 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["o]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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: slab n : thick piece of something From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 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.
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