Definition of Tab

Noun: tab  tab

  1. The bill in a restaurant
    "he asked the waiter for the tab";
    - check [N. Amer], chit
     
  2. [N. Amer] Sensationalist journalism
    - yellow journalism, tabloid
     
  3. The key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation
    - tab key
     
  4. 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"
     
  5. A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
    - pill, lozenge, tablet
     
  6. [N. Amer] A metal ring that is pulled to open a can
    - ring pull [Brit], pull tab [N. Amer]
Verb: tab (tabbed,tabbing)  tab
  1. (computing) use the tab key on a computer to navigate the screen or page (e.g. to change the selected item on screen)
     
  2. Mark with a tab

See also:
Taal
tabanid

Anagrams containing the word tab

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