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tab 1
(tăb)n.
1. A projection, flap, or short strip attached to an object to facilitate opening, handling, or identification.
2. A small, usually decorative flap or tongue on a garment.
3. A small auxiliary airfoil that is attached to a larger one and that helps stabilize an aircraft.
4. A pull-tab.
tr.v. tabbed, tab·bing, tabs
To supply with a tab or tabs.
[Origin unknown.]
tab 2
(tăb)n.
1. Informal
a. A bill or check, such as one for a meal in a restaurant.
b. Cost; price: The tab for upgrading the computers would be high.
2. A tabulator on a typewriter.
3. Computers
a. A key on a computer keyboard that, when pressed, inserts a special ASCII character used for formatting text, as in indenting a line or block of text.
b. This special ASCII character.
intr.v. tabbed, tab·bing, tabs
Idiom: To press the tab on a typewriter or computer keyboard: Tab over to the next column.
keep tabs on Informal
To observe carefully over time: Let's keep tabs on expenditures.
tab 3
(tăb) Informaln.
A tabloid.
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tab
(tæb)n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) a small flap of material, esp one on a garment for decoration or for fastening to a button
2. any similar flap, such as a piece of paper attached to a file for identification
3. (Aeronautics) a small auxiliary aerofoil on the trailing edge of a rudder, aileron, or elevator, etc, to assist in the control of the aircraft in flight. See also trimtab
4. (Military) military Brit the insignia on the collar of a staff officer
5. chiefly US and Canadian a bill, esp one for a meal or drinks
6. (Recreational Drugs) dialect Scot and Northern English a cigarette
7. keep tabs on informal to keep a watchful eye on
vb, tabs, tabbing or tabbed
(tr) to supply (files, clothing, etc) with a tab or tabs
[C17: of unknown origin]
tab
(tæb)n
2. (Recreational Drugs) slang a portion of a drug, esp LSD or ecstasy
TAB
abbreviation for
1. (Medicine) typhoid-paratyphoid A and B (vaccine)
2. (Gambling, except Cards) Austral and NZ Totalizator Agency Board
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tab1
(tæb)n., v. tabbed, tab•bing. n.
1. a small flap, strap, loop, or similar appendage, as on a garment, used for pulling, hanging, or decoration.
2. a tag or label.
3. a small projection from a card, paper, or folder, used as an aid in filing.
4. Informal. a bill; check.
5. a small piece attached or intended to be attached, as to an automobile license plate.
6.
a. a typewriter stop or computer command that moves the carriage, cursor, or printing element a predetermined number of spaces.
b. the key that activates such a stop or command.
7. a small airfoil hinged to the rear portion of a control surface, as to an elevator, aileron, or rudder.
v.t. 8. to furnish or ornament with tabs.
9. to name or designate.
v.i. 10. to operate the tab function on a typewriter or computer.
Idioms: keep tab(s) on, to maintain a watch over; record the activities of.
[1600–10; of uncertain orig.]
tab2
(tæb)n. Informal.
2. a tablet, as of a drug.
[1960–65; by shortening]
tab.
1. table.
2. (in prescriptions) tablet.
[< Latin tabella]
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tab
Past participle: tabbed
Gerund: tabbing
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| Noun | 1. | tab - the bill in a restaurant; "he asked the waiter for the check" |
| 2. | tab - sensationalist journalism journalism, news media - newspapers and magazines collectively | |
| 3. |  tab - the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulationkey - a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed typewriter keyboard - a keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed | |
| 4. | tab - a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it; "pull the tab to open the can"; "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. | tab - a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet bolus - a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine capsule - a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside dragee - pill that is a sugar-coated medicated candy sleeping capsule, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sleeping tablet - a soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule) |
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tab
noun flap, tag, label, ticket, flag, marker, sticker a small red tab sewn on to the side of the pocket
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tab
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Translations
بِطاقَهعُرْوَهلِسان، أُذْن
jazýčekkartaouškopoutkoproužek
mærkatringskiltstroptap
arvekaartlipikratastabeldi
nappipiikkitabuvälilehti
lykkja, hankimerkimiîitunga, flipi
kilpelė
astītecilpiņagaliņšuzlīmeuzšuve
rúčka
tab
[tæb]A. N
1. (on garment) (= flap) → oreja f, lengüeta f; (= loop) → presilla f; (= label) → etiqueta f; (= marker) (on file) → ceja f; [of cheque] → resguardo m
to keep tabs on sb → vigilar a algn
to keep tabs on [+ situation] → seguir de cerca
to keep tabs on sb → vigilar a algn
to keep tabs on [+ situation] → seguir de cerca
3. (also tabulator) → tabulador m
B. CPD tab key N → tecla f de tabulación
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
tab
[ˈtæb] n
(on file) → étiquette f
(on can) (= ring pull) → anneau m
to keep tabs on sb (= keep an eye on) → surveiller qn
(in word processing) (= key) → touche f tabulation tab key
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
tab
1n
(= loop on coat etc) → Aufhänger m; (on back of boot, book) → Schlaufe f; (= fastener on coat etc) → Riegel m; (= name tab, of owner) → Namensschild nt; (of maker) → Etikett nt; (on collar) → Verschluss(riegel) m; (Mil) → Spiegel m; (on shoulder, pocket) → Klappe f, → Patte f; (on filing cards) → Tab m, → Reiter m; to keep tabs on somebody/something (inf) → jdn/etw genau im Auge behalten
(Aviat) → Klappe f
tab
2 (Comput etc)n → Tab(ulator) m; (in dialog box) → Registerkarte f; (on typewriter) → Tabulator m; to set the tabs → tabulieren
vt columns → tabulieren
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
tab
[tæb]1. n abbr = tabulator
2. n (label) → etichetta; (flap on garment) → linguetta (Am) (fam) (bill) → conto
to keep tabs on sb/sth (fig) (fam) → tenere d'occhio qn/qc
to pick up the tab (Am) (fam) → pagare il conto
to keep tabs on sb/sth (fig) (fam) → tenere d'occhio qn/qc
to pick up the tab (Am) (fam) → pagare il conto
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
tab
(tӕb) noun1. a small flat piece of some material attached to, or part of, something larger, which stands up so that it can be seen, held, pulled etc. You open the packet by pulling the tab.
2. a strip of material attached to a piece of clothing by which it can be hung up. Hang your jacket up by the tab.
3. a piece of material with a person's name or some other mark on it, attached to a piece of clothing so that its owner can be identified.
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