noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a slab of chocolate (= a large flat piece )
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They shared a large slab of chocolate.
a slab of ice (= a thick flat piece of ice )
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Huge slabs of ice drifted down the frozen river.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
concrete
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Previous development may also have left old foundations, concrete slabs and basements which must be identified and quantified for additional cost.
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Very important to know, because suppose you got permafrost under your concrete slab ?
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Now the club lies under pulverised concrete slabs .
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Speedo changed position on the concrete slab .
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The wall was topped with rolls of barbed wire and jagged ends of glass stuck into the eight-foot concrete slabs .
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Crisp precast concrete slabs are teamed with brick, the latter helping to soften the overall surface.
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Most popular are precast concrete paviours and slabs , but look around for the more interesting surface textures and designs.
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This block is made out of a steel structure covered with concrete slabs and masked with a red brick shell.
flat
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The face of the Adjudicator inExtremis seemed to be composed of flat green slabs .
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When I got to higher ground, I sat on a long, flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea.
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To place a flat slab of stone across each angle of the square thus providing an octagonal basis.
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The area is also wide and spacious, the main roof itself being quite remarkably formed with huge flat slabs of stone.
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The river, to my right, was a long, flat slab of grey.
great
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And he had the jaw to go with it, a great slab of a jaw.
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In the moonlight it appeared more like a great slab of concrete than a refuge for ducks.
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There are great slabs of aluminium and a leather shelf which runs the entire width of the car.
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Then I lay over a great slab of rock which warmed the water almost to bath-heat.
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One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child, tucking in to great slabs of meat.
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Duwayne ploughs stolidly up and down the length of the pool several times like a great slab of walrus.
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As we passed over the Thames we paused to look at a steamer unloading great slabs of white and brown marble.
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The Hilton is absolutely undecorated, consisting of great columns and slabs of reflective glass which return images of sky and church.
huge
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The most ancient burial chambers consisted of huge stone slabs forming a chamber with entrances through which further corpses might be introduced.
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A white fist of cloud enclosed and released the huge slab of Huayna Picchu which rose up behind it.
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The first wave is an absolute monster which dumps a huge slab of water into the boat.
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He had found himself trapped in a room with doors made up of huge , sliding slabs of rock all round it.
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The area is also wide and spacious, the main roof itself being quite remarkably formed with huge flat slabs of stone.
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The centre was occupied by a huge stone slab with twice as many sides as a square.
large
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There is a central lane 1.4 metres wide, which is made of two lines of large rectangular stone slabs .
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Central to the buffet was a seafood display around a large , clear slab of iceberg illuminated from behind.
thick
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The public telephones are built on very thick stone slabs , causing difficulty in getting into the box.
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We figured perhaps four hundred people would each get a thick slab of fresh bread this morning.
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The modern ones were like fallen doors. Thick slabs of shiny granite.
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The magma would then cool and harden, adding to the four-mile-\#thick slab of moving crust.
thin
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Sometimes, where a richer effect was required, a veneer of thin slabs of veined gypsum was added.
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The figure is carved from a thin slab of Carrara marble.
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Typically, the summit was only to be gained by desperately thin and unprotected slab climbing.
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They are refusing adamantly even to investigate thin slab technology.
■ NOUN
granite
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The gutter between the sidewalk and granite slabs is cleared of leaves and litter.
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The path teetered down into a side gorge - and then the granite slabs appeared.
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It was a 3, 000-foot granite slab , rising in total isolation from a flat plain.
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They were on a granite slab that had fallen centuries ago and lay by the shore with the water rippling at it.
marble
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The goose lay, neatly trussed, on a cold, marble slab .
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On a marble slab near to the cooker there was a joint of ham and a fat salami ready for slicing.
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In the Mortuary Like soft cheeses they bulge sideways on the marble slabs , helpless, waiting to be washed.
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He lay on the marble slab in the centre of the tiny oblong chapel like a king lying in state.
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Consequently she kept digging into the supply of tissues that Lee kept on the marble slab in the kitchen.
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Our favourite photo was taken of me on the marble slab .
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We were shown the great marble slab covering Arthur's coffin and the chalice well which provided water for the brothers.
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Sister Martha's hair is cut off with a pair of gold scissors, she lies arms outflung on the marble slab .
paving
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The crazy paving slabs came up easily enough.
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All old stone paving slabs deserve retention, as do granite kerbs.
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The most satisfactory arrangement is to have the cable connector concealed beneath a small paving slab .
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Special paving slabs , which make it easier for blind and partially-sighted pedestrians to distinguish the crossing have been introduced.
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The lighter paving slabs are easy to lay, but heavy ones can be difficult to handle.
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Steps can also be made from paving slabs and bricks or blocks.
stone
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The most ancient burial chambers consisted of huge stone slabs forming a chamber with entrances through which further corpses might be introduced.
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It was a rough undressed stone slab 21 ins.
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This high western section was remarkably well preserved, the stone slabs tightly laid, and the primitive stairway safe and solid.
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The floor was a mixture of stone slabs and floorboards.
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There is a central lane 1.4 metres wide, which is made of two lines of large rectangular stone slabs .
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She had spent a fear-filled night beneath a stone slab in the meat cellar and, what was more, completely alone.
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Floors were frequently made from bare wooden boards or stone slab .
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The public telephones are built on very thick stone slabs , causing difficulty in getting into the box.
■ VERB
lay
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Klift lay beneath the fallen slab , broken in body and mind.
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Then I lay over a great slab of rock which warmed the water almost to bath-heat.
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If you have a patio, you may want to lay slabs so that the path matches it.
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He lay on the marble slab in the centre of the tiny oblong chapel like a king lying in state.
lie
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Klift lay beneath the fallen slab , broken in body and mind.
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Now the club lies under pulverised concrete slabs .
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Then I lay over a great slab of rock which warmed the water almost to bath-heat.
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He lay on the marble slab in the centre of the tiny oblong chapel like a king lying in state.
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Nothing, however, is more pathetic than a solitary corpse lying on a cold slab in a disused shed.
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I'd be more interesting to you if I were dead and lain out on your slab .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Slabs of concrete had been used to build a pathway for people to walk on.
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His grave is covered by a huge marble slab .
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New concrete slabs have been laid in the back yard.
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The butcher's counter was covered in huge slabs of red meat and the air smelled of blood.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beneath the slabs was the first indication of how thorough the builder of the pond mark one had been.
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He was able to go directly to the railroad supervisor and convince him to change the pace of slab deliveries.
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Since that moment, the black slab had done nothing.
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The floor was a mixture of stone slabs and floorboards.
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The palette knife marks, the smooth slabs of even colour neutralise any notions of the personal autograph.
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The superintendent in the steel company needed power to get a more efficient delivery schedule of slabs.
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The wall was topped with rolls of barbed wire and jagged ends of glass stuck into the eight-foot concrete slabs.
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Then and only then it was that the vast seamless blocks and slabs of the buried city came back to light.