tab
/tæb/ verb C2- To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.
He/she/it tabs · Past tabbed · Past participle tabbed · -ing form tabbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- tab
- He/she/it
- tabs
- Past
- tabbed
- Past participle
- tabbed
- -ing form
- tabbing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
The tailor’s tab is on the neck—‘Neal, Outfitter, Vermissa, U.S.A.’ I have spent an instructive afternoon in the rector’s library, and have enlarged my knowledge by adding the fact that Vermissa is a flourishing little town at the head of one of the best known coal and iron valleys in the United States.
Other matches
- tab A small flap or strip of material attached to o... B2
- tab A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs. C2
- tab A restaurant bill. C2
- tab A tableau curtain. C2
- tab A student of Cambridge University. C2
- tab A cigarette. C2
- tab A tabloid newspaper. C2
- tab A form of musical notation indicating fingering... C2
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