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slab-sided

/slab-sahy-did/US // ˈslæbˌsaɪ dɪd //

板面,板块式的,板面的,板块状的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : having the sides long and flat, like slabs.
    • : tall and lank.

Examples

  • Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat the vegetable oil in a large, high-sided cast iron skillet.

  • Finally, America will have to accept Bill Cosby as a many-sided man, rather than a much-loved pop-culture caricature.

  • I find both “admirer” and “suitor” to be presumptuous and one-sided.

  • All that seemed clear was the injustice of a man carrying scars from two sides of an increasingly multi-sided war.

  • In Ferguson, Missouri, the bullet-ridden body of Michael Brown lies on a slab somewhere, and his parents await justice, and mourn.

  • A one-sided view of the Memory proclaims that if vivid First Impressions are made in all cases, that is enough.

  • The backs are mostly cut the reverse way of the grain to the present rule, forming what are now termed "slab" backs.

  • Now, unless the interlocutor adopts the same method and declares what he would do, conversation is apt to become one-sided.

  • We have for the upper table, or front, a thin slab of wood known as pine, from a species of tree that grows all over the world.

  • Nothing is more frequent than a one-sided contract, in which one party has gained far more than the other.