noun
Meaning 1
A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
tablet
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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tăbʹlət
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/ˈtæblət/
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rhymes with -æblət
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CMU ARPABET: T AE1 B L AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: lifestyle, religion
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noun
Meaning 3
A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance in solid form.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
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noun
Meaning 4
A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A graphics tablet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 8
A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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verb
Meaning 9
To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 10
a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pill, lozenge, tab
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dose, dosage
Narrower terms: bolus, capsule, dragee, sleeping pill, sleeping tablet, sleeping capsule, sleeping draught
noun
Meaning 11
a small flat compressed cake of some substance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a tablet of soap
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Broader terms: cake, bar
noun
Meaning 12
a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: slab
Narrower terms: abacus, slate
noun
Meaning 13
a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pad, pad of paper
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: paper
Narrower terms: message pad, writing pad, notepad
History
Etymology
From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: kleitablet — slab of clay
- Akkadian: 𒁾 (ṭuppu) — slab of clay
- Arabic: لَوْح (lawḥ) — slab of clay
- Bulgarian: плочка (pločka) — slab of clay
- Bulgarian: табелка (tabelka) — slab of clay
- Catalan: tauleta — slab of clay
- Dutch: kleitablet — slab of clay
- Finnish: savitaulu — slab of clay
- Ge'ez: ጾላዕ (ṣolaʿ) — slab of clay
- German: Tafel — slab of clay
- Greek: πινακίδα (pinakída) — slab of clay
- Greek: πλακίδιο (plakídio) — slab of clay
- Ancient Greek: πίναξ (pínax) — slab of clay
- Ancient Greek: δέλτος (déltos) — slab of clay
- Hebrew: לוּחַ (lúakh) — slab of clay
- Hungarian: írótábla — slab of clay
- Hungarian: agyagtábla — slab of clay
- Hungarian: tábla — slab of clay
- Hungarian: kőtábla — slab of clay
- Latin: tabula — slab of clay
- Persian: لوح (lovh) — slab of clay
- Old Persian: 𐎮𐎡𐎱𐎡 (di-i-p-i) — slab of clay
- Portuguese: tabuleta — slab of clay
- Russian: доще́чка (doščéčka) — slab of clay
- Russian: табли́чка (tablíčka) — slab of clay
- Russian: плита́ (plitá) — slab of clay
- Sogdian: 𐫤𐫀𐫢 (tʾš) — slab of clay
- Spanish: placa — slab of clay
- Sumerian: 𒁾 (DUB) — slab of clay
- Swedish: stentavla — slab of clay
- Tagalog: tableta — slab of clay
- Turkish: levha — slab of clay
- Ottoman Turkish: تخته (tahta) — slab of clay
- Ottoman Turkish: لوحه (levha) — slab of clay
- Vietnamese: phiến — slab of clay
- Scottish Gaelic: tablaid — (Scotland) type of confection
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