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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


Words linked to "Tab" :   strip, sleeping draught, typewriter keyboard, invoice, bolus, sleeping capsule, dose, key, journalism, bill, capsule, dosage, account, sleeping pill, news media, slip, dragee


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