Slab vs. Layer
Slabnoun
A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat.
Slabnoun
A paving stone; a flagstone.
Slabnoun
(Australia) A carton containing 24 cans of beer.
Slabnoun
An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
Slabnoun
A bird, the wryneck.
Slabnoun
(nautical) The slack part of a sail.
Slabnoun
(slang) A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile or Cadillac.
Slabnoun
(surfing) A very large wave.
Slabnoun
(computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
Slabnoun
(geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being subducted.
Slabnoun
(archaic) Mud, sludge.
Slabnoun
A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
Slabnoun
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Slabverb
(transitive) To make something into a slab.
Slabadjective
(archaic) Thick; viscous.
Slabnoun
A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.
Slabnoun
An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
Slabnoun
The wryneck.
Slabnoun
The slack part of a sail.
Slabnoun
That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.
Slabadjective
Thick; viscous.
Slabnoun
block consisting of a thick piece of something
Layernoun
A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
Layernoun
An item of clothing worn under or over another.
Layernoun
A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
Layernoun
One of the items in a hierarchy.
Layernoun
}} 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.
Layernoun
A person who lays things, such as tiles.
Layernoun
A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
Layernoun
A hen kept to lay eggs.
Layernoun
A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
Layerverb
(ambitransitive) to cut or divide (something) into layers
Layerverb
(ambitransitive) to arrange (something) in layers.
Layernoun
One who, or that which, lays.
Layernoun
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.
Layernoun
A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
Layernoun
An artificial oyster bed.
Layernoun
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
Layernoun
a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
Layernoun
an abstract place usually conceived as having depth;
Layernoun
a hen that lays eggs
Layernoun
thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
Layerverb
make or form a layer;
Layernoun
a sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body
Layernoun
a level of seniority in the hierarchy of an organization
Layernoun
a person or thing that lays something
Layernoun
a shoot fastened down to take root while attached to the parent plant
Layerverb
arrange in a layer or layers
Layerverb
cut (hair) in overlapping layers
Layerverb
propagate (a plant) as a layer
