tablet
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tablet (plural tablets)
- A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
- 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
- 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."
- (religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
- A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.
- Coordinate term: capsule
- Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
- A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
- 2005, Kenneth T. Henson, Writing for Publication: Road to Academic Advancement, →ISBN, page 80:
- Take a full-size writing tablet and follow these steps.
- (computing) A graphics tablet.
- (computing) 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.
- (rail transport) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
- 1939 November, “Overseas Railways: Locomotive Performance in New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:
- 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.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Scottish Gaelic: tablaid
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Verb edit
tablet (third-person singular simple present tablets, present participle tableting or tabletting, simple past and past participle tableted or tabletted)
- (transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.
References edit
- “tablet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Middle French tablette.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tablet f or n (plural tabletten, diminutive tabletje n)
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Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: tablet
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tablet m (plural tablets)
- tablet computer
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch tablet, from Middle French tablette, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of tabel.
- Semantic loan from English tablet for tablet computer sense.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tablèt (first-person possessive tabletku, second-person possessive tabletmu, third-person possessive tabletnya)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “tablet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French tablete; equivalent to table + -et.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tablet (plural tablettes)
- A tablet, especially an easily carried one for writing on.
- (biblical) The Ten Commandments in physical form handed down from heaven.
- A level surface for painting or working upon.
- A piece of jewellery with a level portion.
- (rare) A marble slab utilised as tiling.
- (rare) A pill; a tablet for medication.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “tablet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English tablet, from Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete.
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Noun edit
tablet m inan
- (computing) digitizer, graphics tablet (small, easily swallowed portion of a substance)
- (computing) tablet computer
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English tablet.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tablet m (plural tablets)
- (computing) tablet computer (a type of portable computer)
- Synonym: táblete
Further reading edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English tablet.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tablet m or f same meaning (plural tablets)