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Tablets (sense 3)

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: tăbʹlət, IPA(key): /ˈtæblət/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æblət

Noun edit

tablet (plural tablets)

  1. 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."
  2. (religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
  3. A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.
    Coordinate term: capsule
    Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
  4. 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.
  5. (computing) A graphics tablet.
  6. (computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
  7. (Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
  8. (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.

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  • Scottish Gaelic: tablaid

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tablet (third-person singular simple present tablets, present participle tableting or tabletting, simple past and past participle tableted or tabletted)

  1. (transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

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Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Middle French tablette.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /taːˈblɛt/
  • Hyphenation: ta‧blet
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun edit

tablet f or n (plural tabletten, diminutive tabletje n)

  1. tablet, pill (piece of medicine in solid state)
  2. flat, rectangular piece or slab
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Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from English tablet.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.blət/
  • Hyphenation: ta‧blet

Noun edit

tablet m (plural tablets)

  1. tablet computer

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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.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈtablɛt]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧blèt

Noun edit

tablèt (first-person possessive tabletku, second-person possessive tabletmu, third-person possessive tabletnya)

  1. tablet:
    1. (medicine, pharmacy) a pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.
      Synonyms: gentel, pil
    2. a slab of clay used for inscription.
    3. (computing) a tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
  2. flat, rectangular piece or slab

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Etymology edit

From Old French tablete; equivalent to table +‎ -et.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtab(ə)lɛt(ə)/, /ˈtaːb(ə)lɛt(ə)/

Noun edit

tablet (plural tablettes)

  1. A tablet, especially an easily carried one for writing on.
  2. (biblical) The Ten Commandments in physical form handed down from heaven.
  3. A level surface for painting or working upon.
  4. A piece of jewellery with a level portion.
  5. (rare) A marble slab utilised as tiling.
  6. (rare) A pill; a tablet for medication.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from English tablet, from Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete.

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tablet m inan

  1. (computing) digitizer, graphics tablet (small, easily swallowed portion of a substance)
  2. (computing) tablet computer

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  • tablet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tablet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English tablet.

Pronunciation edit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈta.ble.t͡ʃi/, /ˈta.blet͡ʃ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈta.blet͡ʃ/, /ˈta.ble.t͡ʃi/

Noun edit

tablet m (plural tablets)

  1. (computing) tablet computer (a type of portable computer)
    Synonym: táblete

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Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English tablet.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtablet/ [ˈt̪a.β̞let̪]
  • Rhymes: -ablet
  • Syllabification: ta‧blet

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tablet m or f same meaning (plural tablets)

  1. (computing) tablet
    Synonym: tableta