tab : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tab	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for tab
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tab n the bill in a restaurant; "he asked the waiter for the check" Synonym(s): check, chit, tab sensationalist journalism Synonym(s): yellow journalism, tabloid, tab the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation Synonym(s): tab key, tab a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it; "pull the tab to open the can"; "files with a red tab will be stored separately"; "the collar has a tab with a button hole"; "the filing cards were organized by cards having indexed tabs" 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]:
Tab \Tab\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] 1. The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle. 2. A tag. See {Tag}, 2. 3. A loop for pulling or lifting something. 4. A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets. 5. A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TAB {HT}