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tab

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæb/, [t?æb?]
  • Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

First attested 1607, of uncertain origin.

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

  1. A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
    • 1993, Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting, p 333:
      He pulls off his belt, cursing as the studs catch in the tabs of his jeans.
  2. (slang) An ear.
  3. (by extension, graphical user interface) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
  4. (graphical user interface) The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.
    How many tabs are open in your Web browser?
  5. (British Army, military slang) A fast march or run with full kit.

Verb

tab (third-person singular simple present tabs, present participle tabbing, simple past and past participle tabbed)

  1. (transitive) To affix with tabs; to label.
Derived terms
  • keep tabs on
  • tabbed
Translations

Etymology 2

Apocopation (shortening) of (variously) tabulate, tabulator, or tabulation.

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (informal, chiefly Canada, US) A restaurant bill.
  2. (informal, chiefly Canada, US) Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate
  3. (by extension) The cost or bill for anything.
    • 1984, Time (volume 123, issue 1)
      Moreover, at a tab of $9 million, the system's price is about $1 million less than a conventional heating-cooling plant []
  4. (computing) A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
    Synonym: tabulator

Verb

tab (third-person singular simple present tabs, present participle tabbing, simple past and past participle tabbed)

  1. (computing) 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.
    • 2010, Chris Anderson, Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4 (page 210)
      You can prevent a control from getting the focus when the user is tabbing between controls by settings its IsTabStop property to False.
Derived terms
  • pick up the tab
  • tabbed
Translations

Etymology 3

Likely to have been formed by clipping the Geordie pronunciation of the word tobacco or alternatively from the brand name Ogden's Tabs.

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (Britain, regional, Tyneside and Mackem) A cigarette.
    Giv'is a tab man!
Translations

References

  • Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN

Etymology 4

Clipping of tablature

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

  1. A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
Translations

Etymology 5

Clipping of Cantab, from Cantabrigian, from Latin Cantabrigia (Cambridge).

Alternative forms

  • Tab

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (British slang) A student of Cambridge University.

Etymology 6

Clipping of tabloid.

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (colloquial) A tabloid newspaper.
    • 1999, George H. Douglas, The Golden Age of the Newspaper, p. 229:
      By 1926 the tabloid mania was at full tilt, and the tabs in New York went at each other with hammer and tong.
    • 2010, Robert Lusetich, Unplayable: An Inside Account of Tiger's Most Tumultuous Season:
      That is the attitude of the tabs: they cover the world's most important city.

Etymology 7

Clipping of tablet.

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (informal) A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
Translations

Etymology 8

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (informal, theater) A tableau curtain.

Derived terms

  • tabless

Anagrams

  • ABT, ATB, B.T.A., BAT, BTA, Bat-, TBA, abt, abt., bat

Danish

Etymology 1

Derived from the verb tabe (to lose).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?t?æ?b?]

Noun

tab n (singular definite tabet, plural indefinite tab)

  1. loss
  2. casualty
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?t?æ?b?], (colloquial) IPA(key): [?t?æw?]

Verb

tab

  1. imperative of tabe

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English table (table ? tab; compare French: table, Latin: tabula, Interlingua: tabula, Esperanto: tablo, Ido: tablo).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tab]

Noun

tab (nominative plural tabs)

  1. table (item of furniture)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

  • taib

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tac

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæk/
  • Homophones: tach, tack

Etymology 1

Compare tack.

Noun

tac

  1. (Britain, law, obsolete) A kind of customary payment by a tenant.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

Etymology 2

Noun

tac (uncountable)

  1. (Tyneside, slang) The drug cannabis.

Anagrams

  • A. C. T., A.C.T., ACT, ATC, Act., CAT, CTA, Cat, TCA, act, act., cat

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • tacu

Etymology

From Latin tace?. Compare Romanian t?cea, tac.

Verb

tac (third-person singular present indicative tatsi / tatse, past participle tãcutã)

  1. I am silent, keep quiet.

Related terms

  • tãtseari / tãtseare
  • tãcut

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (t?j), ultimately of Iranian origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t?d??], [t?d?z]

Noun

tac (definite accusative tactac?, plural taclar)

  1. crown

Declension

Derived terms

  • taxt-tac

Emilian

Alternative forms

  • tàc (Modenese)
  • tâc (Bolognese, Reggiano, Carpigiano)

Noun

tac m (plural tac) (Mirandola)

  1. the back of a shoe
  2. heel of a shoe

Synonyms

  • arbòt (Bolognese)

French

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ak

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic

Interjection

tac

  1. tick, tock

Derived terms

  • du tac au tac
  • avoir le tac
  • tac-tac
  • tactactac
  • tic-tac
  • tacot

Etymology 2

From Middle French tac

Noun

tac m (uncountable)

  1. mange

Middle High German

Noun

tac m

  1. Alternative form of tag

Declension

References


Old High German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tak/

Noun

tac m

  1. Alternative form of tag

References

  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tat?s/

Noun

tac f

  1. genitive plural of taca

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Greek ????? (tákos)

Noun

tac n (plural tacuri)

  1. (billiards) cue
Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

tac

  1. first-person singular present indicative of t?cea
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of t?cea
  3. third-person plural present indicative of t?cea

Spanish

Noun

tac m (plural tacs)

  1. CAT
  2. knock; clack; tock (sound)

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