Tabnoun詞源 1

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  computingengineeringmathematicsA key on a computer keyboard that typically inserts a tab or moves the input focus.

tabnoun詞源 1/tæb/

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  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
  • "His name was written upon a tab within it - Maple White, Lake Avenue, Detroit, Michigan."
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  slangAn ear.

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  computingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceA navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.

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  computingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceThe 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?
  • That’s the relief I feel when clearing all the tabs in my internet browser. Clicking the crosses like a long line of kisses finally indulged.
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  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA fast march or run with full kit.

tabverb詞源 1/tæb/

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  To affix with tabs; to label.

tabnoun詞源 2/tæb/

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  informalA restaurant bill.

  • to pick up the tab
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  informalCredit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate.

  • to start a tab
  • Put this round on my tab, please, barman.
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  The cost or bill for anything.

  • Moreover, at a tab of $9 million, the system's price is about $1 million less than a conventional heating-cooling plant […]
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  computingengineeringmathematicsA space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.

  • No no no no I don't, it's not hate, hate is a strong word, truth be told I do have a slight preference for tabs but that's only because I'm anal and because I prefer precision.

tabverb詞源 2/tæb/

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  computingengineeringmathematicsTo use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.

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

tabnoun詞源 3/tæb/

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  A cigarette.

  • Lend us a tab!

tabnoun詞源 4/tæb/

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

tabnoun詞源 5/tæb/

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  A student of Cambridge University.

  • You should have been there---it was a good race. Just to clarify matters for the hard of understanding, the tabs led for about 1500m before turning to shrapnel, and Oxford eventually won by 3/4 length.
  • Before Rachel gets in with a stab at the Tabs' coxing efforts, may I say that my experience of coxes on the Isis is somewhat similar.

tabnoun詞源 6/tæb/

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  mediapublishingA tabloid newspaper.

  • By 1926 the tabloid mania was at full tilt, and the tabs in New York went at each other with hammer and tong.
  • The tabloids were able to spend much of the week confronting their demons. Maxine Carr's request to be released from prison early prompted the tabs to let her know what they thought of her suggestion.

tabnoun詞源 7/tæb/

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  informalA tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.

  • Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.

tabnoun詞源 8/tæb/

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  informalentertainmentlifestyletheaterA tableau curtain.