Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To affix with tabs; to label.

  2. 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.

    табуля́торtabuljátor, табtab, табуля́цияtabuljácija

Examples

42 sentences

  1. I'll put it on your tab.

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  2. Just put it on my tab.

    ruПросто запиши это на мой счет. — sharptoothed

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  3. The bartender asked Tom to pay his tab.

    ruБармен попросил Тома оплатить счёт. — paul_lingvo

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  4. Who's going to pick up the tab for this?

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  5. I have over thirty tabs open in my browser right now.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
short for tabulator:
a space character that extends to the next column:

Origin

First attested 1607, of uncertain origin. Apocopation (shortening) of (variously) tabulat

First attested 1607, of uncertain origin.

Apocopation (shortening) of (variously) tabulate, tabulator, or tabulation.

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Forms

tabs, tabbing, tabbed, tabbed
Base formtab · to tab
3rd person singulartabs
Present participletabbing
Past simpletabbed
Past participletabbed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytab
he, she, ittabs

Past simpleLesson

all personstabbed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tabbed
he, she, ithas tabbed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tab

Word family

31 related words
Derivedbacktabbread tabcollar tabcross tabhand-tablaundry tabmultitabpeel tabpull-tabsubtabswipe-tabtabbabletabbertab completetab controltabificationtabifytab indextab leadertabliketabnabbingtab ordertab outtab page

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
systematicB1systematicallysystemicttabbytableA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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