Tablet : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Tablet	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Tablet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tablet n a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge Synonym(s): pad, pad of paper, tablet a small flat compressed cake of some substance; "a tablet of soap" a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet Synonym(s): pill, lozenge, tablet, tab
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tablet \Ta"blet\, n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See {Table}.] 1. A small table or flat surface. 2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture. 3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.] 4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book. 5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. 6. (Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also {lozenge}, and {troche}, especially when of a round or rounded form.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TABLET A {query language}. ["Human Factor Comparison of a Procedural and a Non-procedural Query Language", C. Welty et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 6(4):626-649 (Dec 1981)]. (1994-11-23)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tablet probably a string of beads worn round the neck (Ex. 35:22; Num. 31:50). In Isa. 3:20 the Hebrew word means a perfume-box, as it is rendered in the Revised Version.