English Explanatory Dictionary

tablet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
  2. A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
  3. A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance in solid form.
  4. A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
  5. A graphics tablet.
  6. A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
  7. A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
  8. A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
verb
  1. To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

tablet tablets tableting tabletting tableted tabletted

Etymology

From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).

Related words

caplet capsule

Derived words

carbon tablet clay tablet curse tablet disclosing tablet effervescent tablet laplet minitablet orally disintegrating tablet phablet sleeping tablet spirit tablet supertablet tab tabletary tabletless tabletlike tablet PC tabsule wax tablet
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