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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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"Tab" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... I don't know how much they pay you by the year to sit around here, but I doubt that it's as much as I pay my beaters for a week end of hunting. So obviously, even if I were for sale, the man who could afford the tab could pick you up with his small change." ...

— The Best Made Plans • Everett B. Cole

... be good when he tries to cash my check," said Johnny Simms delightedly. "I stopped payment on it when he wouldn't pick up the tab for some drinks ...

— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... Mr. Fleck, lowering his voice impressively, "here is the fact. Some one somewhere on Riverside Drive is keeping close and constant tab on the warships and transports there in the river. We have managed recently to intercept and decipher some code messages. These messages told not only when the transports sailed but how many troops were on each and how strong their convoy was. Where these messages ...

— The Apartment Next Door • William Andrew Johnston

... the grammar, and a vocabulary of the Harari tongue. This dialect is little known to European linguists: the only notices of it hitherto published are in Salt's Abyssinia, Appendix I. p. 6-10.; by Balbi Atlas Ethnogr. Tab. xxxix. No. 297.; Kielmaier, Ausland, 1840, No. 76.; and Dr. Beke ...

— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton

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