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tab·let

Audio Help [tab-lit] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -let·ed, -let·ing or -let·ted, -let·ting.

–noun

1.	a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.

2.	a flat slab or surface, esp. one bearing or intended to bear an inscription, carving, or the like.

3.	a thin, flat leaf or sheet of slate, wax-coated wood, or other rigid material, used for writing or marking on, esp. one of a pair or set hinged or otherwise fastened together.

4.	tablets, the set as a whole.

5.	a small, flat, or flattish cake or piece of some solid or solidified substance, as a drug, chemical, or soap.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to furnish or mark with a tablet or plaque.

7.	to mark or inscribe (memoranda, notes, etc.) on a tablet.

8.	to form into tablets, cakes, pellets, etc.

[Origin: 1275–1325; ME tablette < MF tablete. See table, -et

]

—Synonyms 2. plaque.

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tab·let Audio Help (tāb'lĭt) Pronunciation Key
n.

A slab or plaque, as of stone or ivory, with a surface that is intended for or bears an inscription.
1. A thin sheet or leaf, used as a writing surface.
2. A set of such leaves fastened together, as in a book.
3. A pad of writing paper glued together along one edge.
A small flat pellet of medication to be taken orally.
A small flat cake of a prepared substance, such as soap.

tr.v. tab·let·ed, tab·let·ing, tab·lets

To inscribe on a tablet.
To form into a tablet.

[Middle English tablette, from Old French tablete, diminutive of table, table; see table.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
tablet

c.1315, "slab or flat surface for an inscription" (especially the two Mosaic tables of stone), from O.Fr. tablete (13c.), dim. of table "slab" (see table). The meaning "lozenge, pill" is first recorded 1582; that of "pad of writing paper" in 1880.

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tablet
noun
1.	a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription
2.	a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge [syn: pad]
3.	a small flat compressed cake of some substance; "a tablet of soap"
4.	a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet [syn: pill]

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
tablet1 [ˈtӕblit] noun

a pill
Example: Take these tablets for your headache; a sleeping-tablet (= a tablet to make one sleep)

Arabic:	قُرْص دَواء
Chinese (Simplified):	药片
Chinese (Traditional):	藥片
Czech:	tabletka
Danish:	tablet; -tablet
Dutch:	tablet
Estonian:	tablett
Finnish:	tabletti
French:	comprimé, pastille
German:	die Tablette
Greek:	χάπι, ταμπλέτα
Hungarian:	tabletta
Icelandic:	tafla, pilla
Indonesian:	pil
Italian:	compressa, pasticca, pastiglia

Japanese:	錠剤
Korean:	알약
Latvian:	tablete
Lithuanian:	tabletė
Norwegian:	tablett, pille
Polish:	tabletka
Portuguese (Brazil):	comprimido
Portuguese (Portugal):	comprimido
Romanian:	tabletă, pastilă
Russian:	таблетка
Slovak:	tabletka
Slovenian:	tableta
Spanish:	pastilla, comprimido
Swedish:	tablett, piller
Turkish:	hap

tablet2 [ˈtӕblit] noun

a flat piece or bar (of soap etc)
Example: I bought a tablet of soap.

Arabic:	قِطْعَة صابون
Chinese (Simplified):	小块
Chinese (Traditional):	小塊
Czech:	kostka
Danish:	stykke; plade
Dutch:	stuk
Estonian:	lõik, kang
Finnish:	pala
French:	tablette, pain
German:	das Stück
Greek:	πλάκα
Hungarian:	(egy) darab szappan
Icelandic:	sápustykki
Indonesian:	potongan
Italian:	tavoletta saponetta

Japanese:	板状小片
Korean:	작고 납작한 조각
Latvian:	(ziepju u.tml.) gabals
Lithuanian:	gabalėlis
Norwegian:	stykke; (sjokolade)plate
Polish:	tabliczka, kawałek
Portuguese (Brazil):	barra
Portuguese (Portugal):	barra
Romanian:	bucată
Russian:	кусок
Slovak:	kocka, kus
Slovenian:	tablica; kos
Spanish:	pastilla
Swedish:	kaka, bit
Turkish:	kalıp

tablet3 [ˈtӕblit] noun

a piece of usually stone with a flat surface on which words are engraved etc
Example: They put up a marble tablet in memory of his father.

Arabic:	لَوْح، لَوْحَه
Chinese (Simplified):	碑
Chinese (Traditional):	碑
Czech:	deska, tabule
Danish:	tavle; -tavle
Dutch:	plaat
Estonian:	tahvel
Finnish:	muistolaatta
French:	plaque
German:	die Tafel
Greek:	πέτρινη πλάκα
Hungarian:	emléktábla
Icelandic:	áletruð tafla; minningarskjöldur
Indonesian:	lempengan
Italian:	targa

Japanese:	銘版
Korean:	명판(銘板)
Latvian:	plāksne
Lithuanian:	lenta, lentelė
Norwegian:	(minne)tavle
Polish:	tablica
Portuguese (Brazil):	placa
Portuguese (Portugal):	placa
Romanian:	placă
Russian:	мемориальная доска
Slovak:	doska, tabuľa
Slovenian:	spominska plošča
Spanish:	lápida
Swedish:	platta, tavla
Turkish:	yazıt, kitabe

American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

tablet tab·let (tāb'lĭt)
n.
A small flat pellet of medication to be taken orally.

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Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: tab·let
Pronunciation: 'tab-l&t
Function: noun
: a small mass of medicated material (as in the shape of a disk) tablet>

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

TABLET
A query language.
["Human Factor Comparison of a Procedural and a Non-procedural Query Language", C. Welty et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 6(4):626-649 (Dec 1981)].
(1994-11-23)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Tablet

Ta"blet\, n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.]

1. A small table or flat surface.

2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]

4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book.

5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

6. (Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Tablet

probably a string of beads worn round the neck (Ex. 35:22; Num. 31:50). In Isa. 3:20 the Hebrew word means a perfume-box, as it is rendered in the Revised Version.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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