different between tablet vs staple

English

Etymology

From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?b?l?t, IPA^(key): /?tæbl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

tablet (plural tablets)

1. A slab of clay used for inscription.
2. (religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.
3. A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.

   Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.

4. A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
5. (computing) A graphics tablet.
6. (computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
7. (Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs.
8. (rail transport) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.

Derived terms

• wax tablet

Translations

See also

• caplet
• capsule

Verb

tablet (third-person singular simple present tablets, present participle tableting or tabletting, simple past and past participle tableted or tabletted)

1. (transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

References

• “tablet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Battle, batlet, battel, battle

Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French tablette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta??bl?t/
• Hyphenation: ta?blet
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

tablet f or n (plural tabletten, diminutive tabletje n)

1. tablet, pill (piece of medicine in solid state)
2. flat, rectangular piece or slab

Derived terms

• bruistablet
• kleitablet
• zuigtablet

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tablet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.bl?t/
• Hyphenation: ta?blet

Noun

tablet m (plural tablets)

1. tablet computer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tabelett, tabelet, tabblet, tabulet, tabulette

Etymology

From Old French tablete; equivalent to table +? -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tab(?)l?t(?)/, /?ta?b(?)l?t(?)/

Noun

tablet (plural tablettes)

1. A tablet, especially an easily carried one for writing on.
2. (biblical) The Ten Commandments in physical form handed down from heaven.
3. A level surface for painting or working upon.
4. A piece of jewellery with a level portion present.
5. (rare) A marble slab utilised as tiling.
6. (rare) A tablet or pill for medication.

Descendants

• English: tablet
• Scots: taiblet

References

• “tablet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.

Polish

Etymology

From English tablet, from Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tab.l?t/

Noun

tablet m inan

1. (computing) digitizer, graphics tablet (small, easily swallowed portion of a substance)
2. (computing) tablet computer

Declension

Further reading

• tablet in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tablet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English tablet.

Noun

tablet m (plural tablets)

1. (computing) tablet computer (a type of portable computer)

   Synonym: táblete

Further reading

• “tablet” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Noun

tablet m or f (plural tablets)

1. (computing) tablet

   Synonym: tableta

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?ste?.p?l/
• Rhymes: -e?p?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English staple, from Anglo-Norman estaple, Old French estaple (“market, (trading) post”), from Late Latin stapula, from Middle Dutch stapel (“pillar; foundation; market”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *steb?- (“post, stem”). Compare staff.

Noun

staple (countable and uncountable, plural staples)

1. (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations

     The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 73:

     Calais was one of the ‘principal treasures’ of the crown, of both strategic and economic importance. It was home to the staple, the crown-controlled marketplace for England's lucrative textile trade, whose substantial customs and tax revenues flooded into Henry's coffers.

2. (by extension) Place of supply; source.
3. The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
4. A basic or essential supply.

5. A recurring topic or character.
   • 2010, The Economist, Jul-Aug 2010, p. 27:

     In most countries, rubbish makes headlines only when it is not collected, and stinking sacks lie heaped on the streets. In Britain bins are a front-page staple.

6. Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.

   Tow is flax with short staple.

7. Unmanufactured material; raw material.

Translations

Verb

staple (third-person singular simple present staples, present participle stapling, simple past and past participle stapled)

1. (transitive) To sort according to its staple.

Adjective

staple (not comparable)

1. Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.

2. Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.

   • To ruin with worse ware our staple trade

3. Fit to be sold; marketable.

   • What needy writer would not solicit to work under such masters, who will pay us beforehand, take off as much of our ware as we please, at our own rates, and trouble not themselves to examine, either before or after they have bought it, whether it be staple, or not.

4. Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
   • 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages

     wool, the great staple commodity of England

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VIII, Section ii:

     The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.

Etymology 2

From Middle English stapel (“staple, pillar, post”), from Old English stapol (“post, pillar”), from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steb?- (“post, stem”). See also Old English steppan (“to step”) and Old French estaple (“post”). Consider also stapes (“stirrup”), from Latin. Doublet of staple (etymology 1).

Noun

staple (plural staples)

1. A wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
2. A wire fastener used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.

   Can you believe they use staples to hold cars together these days?

3. A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.

   The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence-posts.
4. One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.

   Fortunately, there were staples in the quay wall, and she was able to climb out of the water.

5. (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
6. A small pit.
7. A district granted to an abbey.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)

8. (obsolete) A post; prop; support

Translations

Verb

staple (third-person singular simple present staples, present participle stapling, simple past and past participle stapled)

1. (transitive) To secure with a staple.

Derived terms

• stapler

Translations

See also

• Staple Hill

Anagrams

• Patels, leptas, palest, palets, pastel, peltas, petals, plates, pleats, septal, tepals

German

Verb

staple

1. inflection of stapeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman staple (Old French estaple), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz (“post, pillar; basis, foundation”). Doublet of stapel (“post, stake”).

Noun

staple (plural staples)

1. staple (official market established by royal authority for selling export goods)
2. staple (the town containing such market)

Alternative forms

• stapel, stapil, stapul

Descendants

• English: staple
• Scots: stapill, staple, steple

References

• “st?ple, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

staple (plural staples)

1. Alternative form of stapel