'Tab' definitions:

Definition of 'tab'

From: WordNet
noun
The bill in a restaurant; "he asked the waiter for the check" [syn: check, chit, tab]
noun
Sensationalist journalism [syn: yellow journalism, tabloid, tab]
noun
The key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation [syn: tab key, tab]
noun
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"
noun
A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet [syn: pill, lozenge, tablet, tab]

Definition of 'Tab'

From: GCIDE
  • Tab \Tab\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
  • 1. The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A tag. See Tag, 2. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A loop for pulling or lifting something. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. 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. [PJC]
  • 7. a bill or check for some purchase, as in a restaurant; as, the salesman will pick up the tab. [PJC]
  • 8. 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. [PJC]

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