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Tab

noun

The bill in a restaurant. Synonyms: check, chit.

Sensationalist journalism. Synonyms: tabloid, yellow journalism.

The key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation. Synonym: tab key.

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"

A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet. Synonyms: lozenge, pill, tablet.

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... of Syriac origin, is found in the Arabic, and means a place in a valley where waters meet. Julian says, the name of the city is Barbaric, the situation Greek. The geographer Abulfeda (tab. Syriac. p. 129, edit. Koehler) speaks of it in a manner to justify the praises of Julian.—St. Martin. Notes to ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

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