different between tab vs taga

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.
4. (by extension, graphical user interface) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
5. (graphical user interface) The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.

   How many tabs are open in your Web browser?

6. (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

Breton

Verb

taga

1. to attack

Cebuano

Pronunciation 1

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /t?a?a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta?ga

Adverb

taga

1. (preceding a place) from or denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region
2. (preceding a proper noun) denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun)

Pronunciation 2

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?t?a??a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta?ga

Verb

taga

1. to give

Pronunciation 3

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /t?a?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: ta?ga

Noun

taga

1. a fishhook

Verb

taga

1. to fish or catch with a hook

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *taka, from Proto-Uralic *taka. Cognate to Finnish takana, Veps taga, Northern Sami duohki, Tundra Nenets [script needed] (?a??n?, “away, at the back, earlier”), Forest Enets [Term?] (tehone, “at the back”), Selkup [script needed] (t?k, “at the back”), and Kamassian [script needed] (takk??n, “behind”).

Adverb

taga

1. at the back

2. attached (at the back)

Postposition

taga

1. behind (Governs the genitive)

Derived terms

• tagasi
• takka
• taha
• taas
• taamal
• taandama
• tagasõna

Fijian

Noun

taga

1. bag

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Kanuri tágà, from Arabic ??????? (??qa).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: t??g??

Noun

t?g?? f (plural t?g?g?, possessed form t?gàr?)

1. window

References

• Hausa vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Irish

Alternative forms

• teaga (parts of Connacht)
• tige (Ulster, parts of Munster)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??a??/

Verb

taga

1. present subjunctive analytic of tar
   • 1984, Leabhar Urnaí Malairt Leagain 1984 de réir nósanna Eaglais na hÉireann, p. 62:

     Ár nAthair atá ar neamh,
     go naofar d’ainm,
     go dtaga do ríocht,
     go ndéantar do thoil
     ar talamh mar a dhéantar ar neamh.

     Our Father who art in heaven,
     hallowed by thy name,
     thy kingdom come,
     thy will be done
     on earth as it is in heaven.

Mutation

Japanese

Romanization

taga

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Sambali

Noun

tagâ

1. fishhook

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-taga (infinitive kutaga)

1. to lay (eggs)

Inflection

Swedish

Verb

taga (present tager, preterite tog, supine tagit, imperative tag)

1. Dated form of ta.

Conjugation

Anagrams

• agat, gata

Tagalog

Noun

tagâ

1. stab marks

Preposition

taga

1. from

Anagrams

• gata

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *taka.

Postposition

taga

1. behind, in behind, at the back of (stationary location)

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse taka, from Proto-Germanic *t?kan?.

Verb

taga (preterite to or tåo, supine täje or taje or töje or toi or tö, middle tagas)

1. (transitive) To take.

Related terms

• tag
• tak
• tâ rett
• tagas

See also

• naamm
• laabb