Tab

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A projection, flap, or short strip attached to an object to facilitate opening, handling, or identification.
  • n. A small, usually decorative flap or tongue on a garment.
  • n. A small auxiliary airfoil that is attached to a larger one and that helps stabilize an aircraft.
  • n. A pull-tab.
  • v. To supply with a tab or tabs.
  • n. Informal A bill or check, such as one for a meal in a restaurant.
  • n. Informal Cost; price: The tab for upgrading the computers would be high.
  • n. A tabulator on a typewriter.
  • n. Computer Science 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.
  • n. Computer Science This special ASCII character.
  • verb-intransitive. To press the tab on a typewriter or computer keyboard: Tab over to the next column.
  • idiom. keep tabs on Informal To observe carefully: Let's keep tabs on expenditures.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, etc.
  • n. (graphical user interface) A navigational widget for switching between sets of controls or documents.
  • n. A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
  • n. A fast march or run with full kit.
  • n. A student of Cambridge University, derived from the Latin Cantabrigia (often shortened to Cantab.).
  • v. Mark with a tab.
  • v. To use the Tab key on a computer or typewriter to navigate the screen or page.
  • v. Short for tabulate.
  • n. A restaurant bill.
  • n. Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar.
  • n. Short for tabulator.
  • n. A space character (     ) that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
  • n. cigarette.
  • n. A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
  • n. A tag. See Tag, 2.
  • n. A loop for pulling or lifting something.
  • n. A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
  • n. A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
  • n. 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.
  • n. a bill or check for some purchase, as in a restaurant.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A game something like backgammon, popular in Egypt and Palestine, played with four sticks.
  • n. A small flap, strap, or strip of some material made fast to an object at one end or side, and either free or fastened at the other when in use, as in a garment; a tag.
  • n. Check; account: as, to keep tab on one.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the bill in a restaurant
  • n. sensationalist journalism
  • n. a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
  • n. a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it
  • n. the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation
  • Verb Form
    tabbed    tabbing    tabs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bill    invoice    account    journalism    news media    slip    strip    key   
    Variant
    tabbing    tabbed    tag   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flap    tag   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ab    Bab    Crab    Crabbe    Fab    Lab    Mab    Rabb    ab    cab   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    menu    icon    button    dialog    format    setting    folder    option    link    label