Slab vs. Layer — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Slab and Layer
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Slab
A broad, flat, thick piece, as of stone or cheese.
Layer
A sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body
Arrange a layer of aubergines in a dish
Slab
A cliff or rock ledge that rises at a relatively low angle.
Layer
A person or thing that lays something
The majority of fish are egg-layers
Slab
A flat poured concrete surface used as a foundation or base for construction.
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Layer
A shoot fastened down to take root while attached to the parent plant
They can be increased from cuttings and layers
Slab
A table on which a body is laid out in a morgue.
Layer
Arrange in a layer or layers
The current trend for layered clothes
Slab
An outside piece cut from a log when squaring it for lumber.
Layer
Propagate (a plant) as a layer
A layered shoot
Slab
(Baseball) The pitcher's rubber.
Layer
One that lays
A tile layer.
Slab
To make or shape into slabs or a slab.
Layer
A hen kept for laying eggs.
Slab
To cover or pave with slabs.
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.
Slab
To dress (a log) by cutting slabs.
Layer
A usually horizontal deposit or expanse; a stratum
Layers of sedimentary rock.
A layer of warm air.
Slab
Chiefly New England To ascend or descend (a steep slope) by an oblique path.
Layer
A depth or level
A poem with several layers of meaning.
Slab
Viscid.
Layer
(Botany) A stem that is covered with soil for rooting while still part of the living plant.
Slab
(Australia) A carton containing 24 cans (chiefly of beer).
Layer
An item of clothing worn over or under another.
Slab
(nautical) The slack part of a sail.
Layer
To divide or form into layers
Layered gravel and charcoal to make a filter.
Slab
A large, luxury pre-1980 General Motors vehicle, particularly a Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac.
Layer
To cut (hair) into different, usually overlapping lengths.
Slab
(surfing) A very large wave.
Layer
(Botany) To propagate (a plant) by means of a layer.
Slab
(computing) A sequence of 12 adjacent bits, serving as a byte in some computers.
Layer
To wear (clothing) in layers.
Slab
(computing) The amount by which a cache can grow or shrink, used in memory allocation.
Layer
To form or come apart as layers.
Slab
(geology) Part of a tectonic plate that is being, or has been, subducted.
Layer
(Botany) To take root as a result of layering.
Slab
(construction) A poured-concrete foundation for a building.
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
(archaic) Mud, sludge.
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
A car that has been modified with equipment such as loudspeakers, lights, special paint, hydraulics, and other accessories.
Layer
A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
I find seven-layer cake a bit too rich.
Slab
(transitive) To make something into a slab.
Layer
One of the items in a hierarchy.
Mired in layers of deceit
Slab
(archaic) Thick; viscous.
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
A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.
Layer
A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
Slab
An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
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
The wryneck.
Layer
A hen kept to lay eggs.
Slab
The slack part of a sail.
Layer
A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
Slab
That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.
Layer
(ambitransitive) To cut or divide into layers.
Slab
Thick; viscous.
Make the gruel thick and slab.
Layer
(ambitransitive) To arrange in layers.
Layer the ribbons on top of one another to make an attractive pattern.
Slab
Block consisting of a thick piece of something
Layer
One who, or that which, lays.
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.
Layer
A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
Layer
An artificial oyster bed.
Layer
Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
Slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
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
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