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tablet

noun
/ˈtæblət/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from tablete
  2. inherited from tablet

Definitions

  1. A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.

  2. A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.

  3. A pill

    A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance in solid form.

    • Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top

      A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.

      • Take a full-size writing tablet and follow these steps.

    2. A graphics tablet.

    3. A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.

    4. A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a…

      A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.

    5. A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.

      • The latter's loss of time between Manakau and Levin was due to the mishap of dropping the tablet at Ohau, which entailed an out-of-course stop of 3 min. to recover it.

    6. To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

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Derived

carbon tablet, clay tablet, curse tablet, disclosing tablet, effervescent tablet, laplet, minitablet, orally disintegrating tablet, phablet, sleeping tablet, spirit tablet, supertablet, tab, tabletary, tabletless, tabletlike, tablet PC, tabsule, wax tablet

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tablet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA