tab

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Symbol

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Tabasaran.

Noun

1. A small flap or strip of material attached to or inserted into something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
   • insert tab A into slot B
2. An ear.
3. A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls. The page or form (for example, on a web browser or file manager) associated with such a navigational widget.
   • How many tabs are open on your browser right now?
4. A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
5. The page or form (for example, on a web browser or file manager) associated with such a navigational widget.
   • How many tabs are open on your browser right now?
6. A fast march or run with full kit.

Verb

1. To affix with tabs; to label.

Noun

1. A restaurant bill.
   • to pick up the tab
2. Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate.
   • to start a tab
   • Put this round on my tab, please, barman.
3. The cost or bill for anything.
4. A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.

Verb

1. 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.

Noun

1. A cigarette.
   • Lend us a tab!

Noun

1. A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.

Noun

1. A student of Cambridge University.

Noun

1. A tabloid newspaper.

Noun

1. A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.

Noun

1. A tableau curtain.

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