tab

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see also: Tab

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /tæb/, [tʰæb̥]

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

1. A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
   • 1993, Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting, p 333:

     He pulls off his belt, cursing as the studs catch in the tabs of his jeans.

2. (slang) An ear.
3. (by extension, graphical user interface) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
4. (GUI) The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.

   How many tabs are open in your Web browser?

5. (British Army, military slang) A fast march or run with full kit.

Verb

tab (tabs, present participle tabbing; past and past participle tabbed)

1. To affix with tabs; to label.

Translations

• French: onglet, languette
• Italian: linguetta
• Russian: пете́лька
• Spanish: lengüeta

Translations

• French: onglet
• German: Registerkarte, Reiter
• Italian: scheda
• Portuguese: guia, aba, separador
• Russian: вкла́дка
• Spanish: pestaña

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

1. (informal, chiefly, North American) A restaurant bill.
2. (informal, chiefly, North American) Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate

   Put this round on my tab, will you, barman.

3. (computing) A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.

Verb

tab (tabs, present participle tabbing; past and past participle tabbed)

1. (computing) 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.
   • 2010, Chris Anderson, Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4 (page 210)

     You can prevent a control from getting the focus when the user is tabbing between controls by settings its IsTabStop property to False.

Translations

• French: note, addition, douloureuse (informal)
• Spanish: cuenta

Translations

• French: ardoise

Translations

• French: onglet
• Russian: табуля́тор

Translations

• French: tabulation
• Portuguese: tabulação
• Russian: табуля́ция

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

1. (UK, regional, Geordie and Mackem) A cigarette.

   Giv'is a tab man!

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

1. A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

1. (British slang) A student of Cambridge University.

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

1. (colloquial) A tabloid newspaper.
   • 1999, George H. Douglas, The Golden Age of the Newspaper ↗, p. 229:

     By 1926 the tabloid mania was at full tilt, and the tabs in New York went at each other with hammer and tong.

   • 2010, Robert Lusetich, Unplayable: An Inside Account of Tiger's Most Tumultuous Season ↗:

     That is the attitude of the tabs: they cover the world's most important city.

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

1. (informal) A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.

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Tab

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Noun

tab (plural tabs)

1. (computing) A key on a computer keyboard that typically inserts a tab or moves the input focus.

Noun

tab (plural tabs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of tab (“student at Cambridge”)

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