Word Finder - slab

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A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.

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A paving stone; a flagstone.

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A carton containing 24 cans of beer.

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An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.

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A bird, the wryneck.

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The slack part of a sail.

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A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile or Cadillac.

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A very large wave.

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A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.

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Part of a tectonic plate that is being subducted.

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To make something into a slab.

She decided on a big slab of meat.

A back door opened off the kitchen and she descended the rock slab steps to the yard.

Bordeaux lead the horse out of the ravine and behind a slab of rock.

Each spirit, as it quits its nanja or natural haunt to enter the mother, drops a churinga, a slab of stone or wood marked with the child's totem and containing its spirit attributes.

Take this great slab of modern day psychedelia fo example.

Each cell is of suitable dimensions to turn out a slab of sugar about 14 in.

The cables, in the exact lengths required, were simply unrolled from drums onto cable mats on the floor slab.

While this is reassuring as you move from one slab to the next, it does mean there are few deals to be had.

In the South Kensington Museum is a fragment of such a tablet or slab; the figure, a portion of which remains, could not have been less than about 14 in.

The sepulchral chambers are separated by a short passage, and are cut off from the gallery by stone doors made of a single slab which can be moved up and down by levers, like a portcullis.

Climb into the roof where the veins finish at the upstream end and scrabble up a slab into a rift.

The store has secant pile walls to the perimeter of the basement, with an insitu reinforced concrete frame to the ground slab.

The Volunteer Fire Station, consists of a concrete slab sectional garage set back off the main road running through the town.

This slab shows a scene from the siege of a city.

A particularly dangerous form is slab avalanche, formed by wind packing.

Modern slab floor with a tile surround; exposed masonry with deeply splayed apertures.

Continue up the inverted " V " slab, step right and climb the steepening wall with the aid of two pegs.

Climb the center of the steepening slab with a delicate move across a diagonal crack to gain the center of a diagonal flake line.

Illustration 6 is the swastika pattern from a grave slab at Meigle in Perthshire.

Salmon Teriyaki Salad A slab of grilled salmon steak in teriyaki sauce on a bed of mixed salad served with wasabi mayo.

Instead of a single slab that can easily fracture during shipping, most tables are made of three oversized slabs fitted together with a wood backing glued to one side.

Sometimes they look like pillows with a slab of wood or metal across the top.

The Log Furniture Directory provides free plans and instructions for log furniture including a log and slab china cabinet, tables and picture frames.

Free plans for making a gorgeous slab bench seat are provided on Extreme How To.

Keep the cabinets sleek with slab or shaker door styles.

After working a few guest stints on soap operas like Search for Tomorrow and Guiding Light Bacon landed a role in the Broadway production Slab Boys, a production that also starred yet-to-be-discovered actors Sean Penn and Val Kilmer.

A short time after his performance in Slab Boys, his big break came when he starred in the 1982 production Diner.

However if you have moisture in the concrete slab, or sub floor, you will need a moisture abatement plan.

This can create considerable additional expense, especially if you have to rent equipment to excavate or pour a concrete slab foundation as opposed to gravel.

Shower surrounds, tile, even stone slab walls, so why is tile the right choice?

Other minerals in varying quantities help to give each slab of granite a completely unique look by introducing different colors, veins and spots.

If you're shopping around for price, and find a stone that sells for more elsewhere, be sure to check for several things to test the quality of the slab.

Edge details, sink and stove cut outs and installation can make the cost of a slab skyrocket.

This means that a true, blue piece of stone will cost more than a slab from the same quarry that is more gray or white in color.

Granite is a natural material, which means that each slab will have a slightly different mineral make up.

In addition, the formation process may vary from slab to slab, making some stones weaker or stronger than others.

Mesh is applied with a fiberglass resin which strengthens the slab from behind.

You can check for this resin by viewing a slab in bright light from several angles; the presence of a dull spot indicates fill.

To check for the presence of sealer, look at the unfinished edges of the slab.

Drip marks, or "wet" areas indicate the presence of topical sealer, making this the slab you want.

Not all counters in one genre are created equally, so you should compare kitchen countertops using apples to apples and discuss specific slab choices with your fabricator.

In fact, if you've worked with concrete before, whether you've built a slab or a step, you can create your own counter as well.

The resulting liquid is poured into large sheets, which harden into slab counters.

Created stone is also uniform in color from one end to the next, and from one slab to the next.

Quality Granite Designers in Nutley, NJ specialize in stone slab countertops of all types and are both licensed and insured.

Additionally, granite tile counters are lighter and less expensive than slabs, making them more affordable and accessible than slab counters.

With a little time and effort, you can have a granite tile countertop that rivals the look of a slab for a fraction of the cost.

If you are using a DIY sunroom kit, they are not as energy efficient as sunrooms built by professionals, so improve your efficiency by building on a slab foundation with at least one brick wall as a support.

For more solid, slab countertops, however, you can expect to pay approximately $100 a foot for the material installed.

This test uses an electric field applied across a slab of gel-like material.