Word: Tab
How to pronounce: tæb
Noun
Definitions:
1. A small flap or strip of material attached to or projecting from something, used to hold or manipulate it, or for identification and information.
Example sentences: "The shopkeeper undid the clasp binding the date book closed and heaved it open, revealing a binder with unusually long pages and alphabetical identification tabs protruding from the edges."
2. A second or further document or page that can be opened on a spreadsheet or web browser.
Example sentences: "You can now do one-touch bookmarking of favorites right from the favorites tab."
3. A restaurant or bar bill.
4. A part of a control surface, typically hinged, that modifies the action or response of the surface.
Example sentences: "Should the airplane enter what is known as a ‘deep stall,’ the wing can mask the flow of air over the tail surfaces, blanking out the control tabs."
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Mark or identify with a projecting piece of material.
Example sentences: "He opened the book at a page tabbed by a cloth bookmark"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A facility in a word-processing program, or a device on a keyboard, for advancing to a sequence of set positions in tabular work.
Example sentences: "The tab key"
Verb
Definitions:
1. Use the tab key on a computer or typewriter keyboard.
2. Short for tabulate
Noun
Definitions:
1. A tablet containing a dose of a drug.
Noun
Definitions:
1. A tabloid newspaper.
Abbreviation
Definitions:
1. Typhoid–paratyphoid A and B vaccine.
Synonyms:
bookmark
shortcut
tabulator
tab stop
supplementary sheet
pill
tablet
clothes hanger
account
bill
invoice
property page
tab key
Derivations:
tablet
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Tab in Other Languages...
Spanish: Pestaña
German: Tab
French: Onglet
Italian: Tab
Turkish: Sekme
