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noun

Tab n.

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

A tag. See Tag, 2.

A loop for pulling or lifting something.

A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.

A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.

A small projecting piece of a file folder, file card, or similar sheet used in a filing system, on which a notation is written to permit convenient search for the folder, card, etc.

A bill or check for some purchase, as in a restaurant; as, the salesman will pick up the tab.

A key on a typewriter or computer keyboard which advances the carriage or curser to the next (preset) tab position; used especially to type or print text or numbers in columns.

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Etymology of 'Tab'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tab" Quotes from Famous Books

... patrons cast dice for prizes of money and valuables arrayed upon numbered squares of an oilcloth covered board, keno where numbered balls were decanted one at a time from a bottle-shaped leather receptacle called, I learned, the "goose," and the players kept tab by filling in little cards as in domestic lotto; and finally we stopped at the ...

— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin

... rarely confluent. The lime on the wall of the sporangium is rather scanty, sometimes altogether absent, and the nodules of lime in the capillitium are rather small. The species is figured by Micheli N. P. G. Tab. 96, Fig. 9. It is named by Fries S. M., III, p. 142. It is figured again by De Bary, ...

— The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio • A. P. Morgan

... second or so, and answered up: 'If I'd a tab of turf handy, I'd bung it at your mouth, you greasy cavalryman, and learn you to speak respectful of your betters. The Marines are the handiest body of men ...

— Wandering Heath • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... fibres running straight and parallel to each other, and terminates in a remarkably long and slender point. The flower has not yet been brought to England. The fruit is described by C.F. Gaertner (De Seminibus Volume 3 page 49 tab. 186) by the name of Dryobalanops aromatica, from specimens in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks; but he has unaccountably mistaken it for the cinnamon tree, and spoken of it as a native of Ceylon. It is also described, from the same specimens, by M. Correa ...

— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden

... for each hole, so that the trees, viewed from any direction, would be in straight lines. Sam, Zeb, and Judson were to dig the holes, putting the surface dirt to the right, and the poor earth to the left; I was to prune the roots and keep tab on the labels; Johnson and Anderson were to set the trees,—Anderson using a shovel and Johnson his hands, feet, and eyes; while Thompson was to puddle and distribute the trees. The puddling was easily done. We sawed an oil barrel in ...

— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter

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