A Topical Dictionary: Search for tablet

Dictionary Results For "tablet" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

French tablette, diminutive of table#French|table, "table".

Noun

A small portion of a drug or other substances to be taken orally, of cylindrical shape, about three millimeter in height and about one centimeter in diameter.
: Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
A slab of rock used for inscription.
a graphics tablet
a tablet computer, a type of portable computer

Synonyms

pill

Translations

German: Tablette (1)
Russian: таблетка (tablétka) (1), плита (plitá) (2)

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tablet \Ta"blet\, n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.]
1. A small table or flat surface.
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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.
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3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]
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4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book.
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5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were
formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
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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.
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WordNet tablet
n 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, pad of paper]
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,
lozenge, tab]

Moby Dictionary
Domesday Book , account book , address book , adversaria , album ,
annual , appointment calendar , appointment schedule , arch , barrow ,
blankbook , blotter , bolus , boundary stone , brass , bust , cairn ,
calendar , capsule , cashbook , catalog , cenotaph , classified catalog ,
coat , coating , collop , column , commonplace book , court calendar ,
covering , cromlech , cross , cup , cut , cyclolith , daybook , deal ,
desk calendar , diary , diptych , disk , docket , dolmen , drop ,
engagement book , feuille , film , flap , foil , fold , footstone , grave ,
gravestone , headstone , hoarstone , inscription , journal , lamella ,
lamina , laminated glass , laminated wood , lap , leaf , ledger , log ,
logbook , loose-leaf notebook , lozenge , marker , mausoleum , megalith ,
membrane , memento , memo book , memorandum book , memorial ,
memorial arch , memorial column , memorial statue , memorial stone ,
memory book , menhir , monolith , monument , mound , necrology ,
notebook , obelisk , obituary , panel , pastille , patina , peel , pellet ,
pellicle , petty cashbook , pill , pillar , plait , plank , plaque ,
plaquette , plate , plating , ply , plywood , pocket notebook ,
pocketbook , police blotter , prize , pyramid , rasher , reliquary ,
remembrance , ribbon , rostral column , safety glass , scrapbook ,
scratch pad , scum , shaft , sheet , shrine , skin , slab , slat , slice ,
spiral notebook , stela , stone , stupa , table , testimonial , tomb ,
tombstone , tope , triptych , troche , trophy , veneer , wafer , workbook ,
writing tablet , yearbook

FOLDOC 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)

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.