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Tab   /tæb/   Listen
Tab

noun
1.
The bill in a restaurant.  Synonyms: check, chit.
2.
Sensationalist journalism.  Synonyms: tabloid, yellow journalism.
3.
The key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation.  Synonym: tab key.
4.
A short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it.  "Files with a red tab will be stored separately" , "The collar has a tab with a button hole" , "The filing cards were organized by cards having indexed tabs"
5.
A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet.  Synonyms: lozenge, pill, tablet.



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"Tab" Quotes from Famous Books



... but, to their utter dismay, the boots were missing. They searched about here, there, and everywhere, but not so much as the tab of a lace could be found. Meanwhile the ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

... tab on that fool Bolles. He's been drunk ever since he came back from New York. And he doesn't know how ...
— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath

... pages and downloadable, tab-delimited rank-order files, a Rank Order page for Highways has ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... calendar in her room. She kept tab on it of the days as they passed, beginning with the first day of the probationary year. She'd draw a line through each day—each day when she went to bed, and hoped that the day was really over. ...
— We Three • Gouverneur Morris

... kingii, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 290. Scincus nicittensis, Peron manuscript. Psammite de Dumeril, Coct. Tab. Tropidolepisma dumerilii beta, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 745. ...
— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) • George Grey

... indiques; mais le developpement general du lobe frontal, envisage seulement par rapport a son volume, suit les memes lois que dans les singes:" Gratiolet, 'Memoire sur les plis cerebres de l'Homme et des Primateaux,' p. 39, Tab. ...
— Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of Brain in Man and the Apes • Thomas Henry Huxley

... reckoning, computation, calculation, record, tab; registry, register; recital, relation, narrative, report, delineation, description, portrayal, explanation; reason, ground, consideration, motive, sake; estimate, valuation, judgment, estimation, opinion; importance, consequence, value, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming



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