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noun

Tab n.

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

A tag. See Tag, 2.

A loop for pulling or lifting something.

A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.

A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.

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.

A bill or check for some purchase, as in a restaurant; as, the salesman will pick up the tab.

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.

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Etymology of 'Tab'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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