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noun
Tab  n.  
1.
The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
2.
A tag. See Tag, 2.
3.
A loop for pulling or lifting something.
4.
A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
5.
A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
6.
A small projecting piece of a file folder, file card, or similar sheet used in a filing system, on which a notation is written to permit convenient search for the folder, card, etc.
7.
A bill or check for some purchase, as in a restaurant; as, the salesman will pick up the tab.
8.
A key on a typewriter or computer keyboard which advances the carriage or curser to the next (preset) tab position; used especially to type or print text or numbers in columns.





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"Tab" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Tab" :   tablet, bill, check, tabloid, tab key, chit, capsule, dragee, sleeping draught, lozenge, account, bolus, key


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