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tab ¹  (tb)

n.

1. A projection, flap, or short strip attached to an object to facilitate opening, handling, or identification.

2. A small, usually decorative flap or tongue on a garment.

3. A small auxiliary airfoil that is attached to a larger one and that helps stabilize an aircraft.

4. A pull-tab.

tr.v. tabbed, tab·bing, tabs

To supply with a tab or tabs.

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tab ²  (tb)

n.

1. Informal

a. A bill or check, such as one for a meal in a restaurant.

b. Cost; price: The tab for upgrading the computers would be high.

2. A tabulator on a typewriter.

3. Computer Science

a. A key on a computer keyboard that, when pressed, inserts a special ASCII character used for formatting text, as in indenting a line or block of text.

b. This special ASCII character.

intr.v. tabbed, tab·bing, tabs

To press the tab on a typewriter or computer keyboard: Tab over to the next column.

Idiom:

keep tabs on Informal

To observe carefully: Let's keep tabs on expenditures.

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[Short for tablet or tabulation. Sense 2, short for tabulator.]

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tab ¹

Noun

1. a small flap of material, esp. one on a garment for decoration or for fastening to a button

2. any similar flap, such as a piece of paper attached to a file for identification

3. Chiefly US & Canad a bill, esp. for a meal or drinks

4. keep tabs on Informal to keep a watchful eye on [origin unknown]

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tab ²

Noun

short for tabulator

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TAB (in New Zealand) Totalisator Agency Board

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tab - the bill in a restaurant; "he asked the waiter for the check" chit, check invoice, bill, account - an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered; "he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe"
	2.	tab - sensationalist journalism tabloid, yellow journalism journalism, news media - newspapers and magazines collectively
	3.	tab - the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation tab key key - a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed typewriter keyboard - a keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed
	4.	tab - 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" strip, slip - artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
	5.	tab - a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet lozenge, pill, tablet bolus - a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine capsule - a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside dose, dosage - a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time dragee - pill that is a sugar-coated medicated candy sleeping capsule, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sleeping tablet - a soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)

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tab

noun flap, tag, label, ticket, flag, marker, sticker

Translations

tab [tæb] n abbr = tabulator

n → lengüeta (= label); etiqueta;

to keep tabs on (fig) → vigilar

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tab [tæb] n abbr = tabulator

n (= loop on coat etc) → attache f (= label); étiquette f;

(on drinks can etc) → languette f;

to keep tabs on (fig) → surveiller

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tab [tæb] n (on drinks can) → Ring m;

(on garment) → Etikett nt;

to keep tabs on sb/sth (fig) → jdn/etw im Auge behalten

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tab [tæb] n abbr = tabulator

n (on drinks can) → Ring m;

(on garment) → Etikett nt;

to keep tabs on sb/sth (fig) → jdn/etw im Auge behalten

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tab [tæb] n abbr = tabulator

n (= loop) (on coat etc) → laccetto (= label); etichetta = to keep tabs on;

(fig) → tenere d'occhio

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tab

n tab [tӕb]

1 a small flat piece of some material attached to, or part of, something larger, which stands up so that it can be seen, held, pulled etc You open the packet by pulling the tab. oortjie لِسان، أُذْن етикет jazýček, ouško ring; tap der Streifen λωρίδα στην άκρη αντικειμένου lengüeta; anilla (de lata) lapakas زبانه؛ قلاب suikale patte, languette תָּווִית टैब uho, jezičak fül carikan tunga, flipi etichetta, linguetta つまみ 고리; 라벨 galiukas galiņš; astīte hujung bungkusan yg terjulur yg boleh ditarik utk membuka bungkusan tersebut flap flik, klaff języczek, końcówka tira inel (de capac) висящий кончик uško, rúčka zavihek, jeziček jezičak flik แถบ uç 提扣 петелька; вушко تکمہ، بند vạt; miếng (dính vào vật gì để cầm) 提扣

2 a strip of material attached to a piece of clothing by which it can be hung up Hang your jacket up by the tab. lus عُرْوَه закачалка poutko strop der Aufhänger μικρή θηλιά στο εσωτερικό ρούχων lengüeta tripp زبانه لباس؛ بند ripustuslenkki attache לוּלָאָה टैब petlja, vrpca (kod košulja, odijela) akasztó gantungan lykkja, hanki etichetta つまみひも (옷 등을 거는) 고리끈 kilpelė, pakaba cilpiņa; pakaramais gelung penyangkut lus hempe wieszak alça gaică, agăţătoare петелька, вешалка pútko zanka komad materijala za kačenje odeće hängare ป้าย askılık 衣服掛環 вішалка پھانسا vạt áo 衣服挂环

3 a piece of material with a person's name or some other mark on it, attached to a piece of clothing so that its owner can be identified. merker بِطاقَه етикет značka, proužek skilt; mærkat das Schildchen ετικέτα etiqueta lipik برچسب nimilappu étiquette, marque תָּג कपड़े पर टंका कोई टुकड़ा जिससे मालिक की पहचान हो सके etiketa (na odjeći) címke etiket merkimiði etichetta 名札 명찰; 짐표 žymeklis, antsiuvas uzlīme; uzšuve (ar īpašnieka vārdu) label etiketje merkelapp, etikett naszywka etiqueta eti­chetă нашивка, метка značka, prúžok etiketa nalepnica s imenom märke, etikett ฉลาก etiket 掛條;[]標簽 нашивка شناخت کي علامت thẻ 挂条