Slab vs. Layer
Slab and Layer Definitions
Slab
A broad, flat, thick piece, as of stone or cheese.
Layer
One that lays
A tile layer.
Slab
A cliff or rock ledge that rises at a relatively low angle.
Layer
A hen kept for laying eggs.
Slab
A flat poured concrete surface used as a foundation or base for construction.
Layer
A single thickness of a material covering a surface or forming an overlying part or segment
A layer of dust on the windowsill.
A cake with four layers.
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Slab
A table on which a body is laid out in a morgue.
Layer
A usually horizontal deposit or expanse; a stratum
Layers of sedimentary rock.
A layer of warm air.
Slab
An outside piece cut from a log when squaring it for lumber.
Layer
A depth or level
A poem with several layers of meaning.
Slab
(Baseball) The pitcher's rubber.
Layer
(Botany) A stem that is covered with soil for rooting while still part of the living plant.
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Slab
To make or shape into slabs or a slab.
Layer
An item of clothing worn over or under another.
Slab
To cover or pave with slabs.
Layer
To divide or form into layers
Layered gravel and charcoal to make a filter.
Slab
To dress (a log) by cutting slabs.
Layer
To cut (hair) into different, usually overlapping lengths.
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Slab
Chiefly New England To ascend or descend (a steep slope) by an oblique path.
Layer
(Botany) To propagate (a plant) by means of a layer.
Slab
Viscid.
Layer
To wear (clothing) in layers.
Slab
(Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
Layer
To form or come apart as layers.
Slab
(nautical) The slack part of a sail.
Layer
(Botany) To take root as a result of layering.
Slab
A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
Layer
A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
Wrap the loaf in two layers of aluminum foil before putting it in the oven.
After the first coat of paint dried, he applied another layer.
Slab
(surfing) A very large wave.
Layer
An item of clothing worn under or over another.
It's cold now but it will warm up this afternoon. Make sure you wear layers.
Slab
(computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
Layer
A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
I find seven-layer cake a bit too rich.
Slab
(computing) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
Layer
One of the items in a hierarchy.
Mired in layers of deceit
Slab
(geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
Layer
One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
Slab
(construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
Layer
A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
Slab
(archaic) Mud, sludge.
Layer
A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
When dealing with an infestation of headlice, the first step is to eliminate the layers.
Slab
A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
Layer
A hen kept to lay eggs.
Slab
(transitive) To make something into a slab.
Layer
A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
Slab
(archaic) Thick; viscous.
Layer
(ambitransitive) To cut or divide into layers.
Slab
A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.
Layer
(ambitransitive) To arrange in layers.
Layer the ribbons on top of one another to make an attractive pattern.
Slab
An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
Layer
One who, or that which, lays.
Slab
The wryneck.
Layer
That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
Slab
The slack part of a sail.
Layer
A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
Slab
That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.
Layer
An artificial oyster bed.
Slab
Thick; viscous.
Make the gruel thick and slab.
Layer
Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
Slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
Slab
Block consisting of a thick piece of something
Layer
A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
Layer
An abstract place usually conceived as having depth;
A good actor communicates on several levels
A simile has at least two layers of meaning
The mind functions on many strata simultaneously
Layer
A hen that lays eggs
Layer
Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
Layer
Make or form a layer;
Layer the different colored sands
