slab
意味
- (木材・石・金属の)厚板,平板;(肉・パン・ケーキ・チーズなどの)平たい厚切り
例文
We call these slabs of the solid-rock layer 'plates'.
この板状の固い岩石の層をプレートと呼ぶ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of uncertain origin; possibly from *slap, related to dialectal slappel (“portion, piece”), along with slape (“slippery”), sleip (“smooth piece of timber”), borrowed through Old Norse sleipr from Proto-Germanic *slaipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyb-. See also Norwegian sleip (“slippery”) and Icelandic sleipur.