tablet en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”). Compare English table, -et.
Meanings
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A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
Also mentioned is the Rev. T. Stock, who has a tablet in St John's church [Gloucester] and "who with Raikes established the four original Sunday schools in this parish ... in 1780. From this small beginning sprung that gratuitous system of Christian instruction which has covered the face of England and Wales with schools."
2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
- A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
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A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance in solid form.
Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
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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.
2005, Kenneth T. Henson, Writing for Publication: Road to Academic Advancement, →ISBN, page 80:
- A graphics tablet.
- A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
- (Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
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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.
1939 November, “Overseas Railways: Locomotive Performance in New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tablets | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
spirit tablet · disclosing tablet · tabsule · carbon tablet · wax tablet · tabletary · minitablet · tabletless · tabletlike · phablet · tabloid · tab · supertablet · effervescent tablet · orally disintegrating tablet · curse tablet · clay tablet · sleeping tablet · laplet · tablet PC
Descendants
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Translations (36)
gez ጾላዕ (slab of clay) · af kleitablet (slab of clay) · tl tableta (slab of clay) · he לוּחַ (slab of clay) · hu írótábla (slab of clay) · es placa (slab of clay) · vi phiến (slab of clay) · ota تخته (slab of clay) · peo 𐎮𐎡𐎱𐎡 (slab of clay) · grc δέλτος (slab of clay) · ar لَوْح (slab of clay) · bg плочка (slab of clay) · hu agyagtábla (slab of clay) · fa لوح (slab of clay) · de Tafel (slab of clay) · grc πίναξ (slab of clay) · ru доще́чка (slab of clay) · tr levha (slab of clay) · ru плита́ (slab of clay) · bg табелка (slab of clay) · la tabula (slab of clay) · el πλακίδιο (slab of clay) · hu tábla (slab of clay) · sv stentavla (slab of clay) · sog 𐫤𐫀𐫢 (slab of clay) · gd tablaid ((Scotland) type of confection) · ca tauleta (slab of clay) · ru табли́чка (slab of clay) · fi savitaulu (slab of clay) · hu kőtábla (slab of clay) · ota لوحه (slab of clay) · pt tabuleta (slab of clay) · sux 𒁾 (slab of clay) · el πινακίδα (slab of clay) · akk 𒁾 (slab of clay) · nl kleitablet (slab of clay)