Wiktionary

tab

See also: Tab, TAB, t.a.b., t-ab, тав, and Тав

Translingual edit

Symbol edit

tab

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tabasaran.

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /tæb/, [tʰæb̥]
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1 edit

First attested 1607, of uncertain origin.

Noun edit

tab (plural tabs)

  1. A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
  2. (slang) An ear.
  4. (by extension, graphical user interface) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
  5. (graphical user interface) The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.
    How many tabs are open in your Web browser?
  6. (British Army, military slang) A fast march or run with full kit.

Verb edit

tab (third-person singular simple present tabs, present participle tabbing, simple past and past participle tabbed)

  1. (transitive) To affix with tabs; to label.
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Etymology 2 edit

Apocopation (shortening) of (variously) tabulate, tabulator, or tabulation.

Noun edit

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (informal, chiefly Canada, US) A restaurant bill.
  2. (informal, chiefly Canada, US) Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate
    Put this round on my tab, please, barman.
  3. (by extension) The cost or bill for anything.
    • 1984, Time, volume 123, number 1:
      Moreover, at a tab of $9 million, the system's price is about $1 million less than a conventional heating-cooling plant […]
  4. (computing) A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
    Synonyms: tabulator, \t
    • 2016 May 29, Carson Mell, “Bachmanity Insanity”, in Silicon Valley, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch):
      No no no no I don't, it's not hate, hate is a strong word, truth be told I do have a slight preference for tabs but that's only because I'm anal and because I prefer precision.

Verb edit

tab (third-person singular simple present tabs, present participle tabbing, simple past and past participle tabbed)

  1. (computing) 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.
    • 2010, Chris Anderson, Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4, page 210:
      You can prevent a control from getting the focus when the user is tabbing between controls by settings its IsTabStop property to False.
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Etymology 3 edit

Likely to have been formed by clipping the Geordie pronunciation of the word tobacco or alternatively from the brand name Ogden's Tabs.

Noun edit

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (Geordie and Mackem) A cigarette.
    Lend us a tab!
Translations edit
cigarette — see cigarette

References edit

  • Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN

Etymology 4 edit

Clipping of tablature

Noun edit

tab (plural tabs)

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

Etymology 5 edit

Clipping of Cantab, from Cantabrigian, from Latin Cantabrigia (“Cambridge”).

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (Oxbridge slang) A student of Cambridge University.
    • 1995 January 20, Paul Thomas, “Re: >Re: Those 'orrible Tabs”, in rec.sport.rowing‎[1] (Usenet):
      You should have been there---it was a good race. Just to clarify matters for the hard of understanding, the tabs led for about 1500m before turning to shrapnel, and Oxford eventually won by 3/4 length.
    • 1995 February 7, "Laser Cartridge" [username], “Re: Cambridge News, again.”, in rec.sport.rowing‎[2] (Usenet):
      Before Rachel gets in with a stab at the Tabs' coxing efforts, may I say that my experience of coxes on the Isis is somewhat similar.
    • 1998 January 17, whitey [username], “Re: Tab bashing (was University Challenge - Its pish)”, in rec.arts.tv.uk.misc‎[3] (Usenet):
      Plus, there's always been a healthy rivalry between the tabs and us, but I'm sure this has nothing to do with it ;-)
    • 2002 March 27, The Guv'nor [username], “Re: My target this week was...”, in uk.rec.bodybuilding‎[4] (Usenet):
      I hope the Tabs get beaten! :-) I support Oxford for no real reason but they have a bad habit of losing to Cambridge recently.
    • 2002 March 29, Caroline Smith, “Re: Lifejackets thread returns... [was Re: Boat Race]”, in rec.sport.rowing‎[5] (Usenet):
      I have nothing against the girl (other than the fact she's a tab!), but it does strike me as a little daft!!
    • 2006 March 30, JY [username], “Veterans Boat Race (that's Oxford, England vs Cambridge, England)”, in rec.sport.rowing‎[6] (Usenet):
      Anybody know who won? ¶ Or should that be, how much did the Tabs win by? ;-)

Etymology 6 edit

Clipping of tabloid.

Noun edit

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (colloquial) A tabloid newspaper.
    • 1999, George H. Douglas, The Golden Age of the Newspaper‎[7], page 229:
      By 1926 the tabloid mania was at full tilt, and the tabs in New York went at each other with hammer and tong.
    • 2010, Robert Lusetich, Unplayable: An Inside Account of Tiger's Most Tumultuous Season‎[8]:
      That is the attitude of the tabs: they cover the world's most important city.

Etymology 7 edit

Clipping of tablet.

Noun edit

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (informal) A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
    • 2008, Stephen King, Graduation Weekend:
      Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.
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Etymology 8 edit

Noun edit

tab (plural tabs)

  1. (informal, theater) A tableau curtain.
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Danish edit

Etymology 1 edit

Derived from the verb tabe (“to lose”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tab n (singular definite tabet, plural indefinite tab)

  1. loss
  2. casualty
Declension edit
Declension of tab
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tab tabet tab tabene
genitive tabs tabets tabs tabenes

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

tab

  1. imperative of tabe

Haitian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French table.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tab

  1. table

Nawdm edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Kabiyé tɔʋ, Gur Lama tʋn, Tem tɔ́ɔ́wʊ, Mbelime ta̰nbù, Gourmanchéma dabanli, Moba talbann, Farefare tãpɔ, Moore tãpo, Dagbani tɔbu, Ntcham butɔbu.

Noun edit

tab b (plural tawni ɦi)

  1. bow

References edit

  • Bakabima, Koulon Stéphane, Nicole, Jacques (2018) Nawdm-French Dictionary‎[9], SIL International

Sumerian edit

Romanization edit

tab

  1. Romanization of 𒋰 (tab)

Volapük edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English table (table → tab; compare French: table, Latin: tabula, Interlingua: tabula, Esperanto: tablo, Ido: tablo).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tab (nominative plural tabs)

  1. table (item of furniture)

Declension edit

declension of tab
singular plural
nominative tab tabs
genitive taba tabas
dative tabe tabes
accusative tabi tabis
vocative 1 o tab! o tabs!
predicative 2 tabu tabus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms edit

Terms derived from "tab"

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Welsh edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English tab.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tab m (plural tabiau or tabs)

  1. tab (numerous senses)
    Mae gen ti ormod o dabiau ar agor.
    You've got too many tabs open.
    Rho fe ar y tab.
    Put it on the tab.

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
tab dab nhab thab
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tab”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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