tab

Plural: tabs

Noun

• the bill in a restaurant
• sensationalist journalism
• the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation
• 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"
• a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
• A small flap or strip of material attached to or inserted into something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
• An ear.
• A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
• The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.
• A fast march or run with full kit.
• A restaurant bill.
• Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate
• The cost or bill for anything.
• A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
• A cigarette.
• A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
• A student of Cambridge University.
• A tabloid newspaper.
• A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
• A tableau curtain.

Verb

Verb Forms: tabbed, tabbing, tabs

• To name, designate, or mark with a tab.
• To affix with tabs; to label.
• To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.

Examples

• After a clever move, he managed to TAB his opponent’s best scoring squares.
• How many tabs are open in your Web browser?
• insert tab A into slot B
• Lend us a tab!
• Put this round on my tab, please, barman.

Synonyms

check, chit, lozenge, pill, tab key, tablet, tabloid, yellow journalism, mul:\t, tabulator

Antonyms

slot#Noun

Related Words

tin tab