tab
/tæb/ noun B2- A small flap or strip of material attached to or inserted into something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc. · insert tab A into slot B
- An ear.
- A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
- The page or form (for example, on a web browser or file manager) associated with such a navigational widget. · How many tabs are open on your browser right now?
- A fast march or run with full kit.
Plural tabs
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 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 To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the... C2
- tab A form of musical notation indicating fingering... C2
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