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Tablet
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- 1 A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
"Also mentioned is the Rev. T. Stock, who has a tablet in St John's church [Gloucester] and "who with Raikes established the four original Sunday schools in this parish ... in 1780. From this small beginning sprung that gratuitous system of Christian instruction which has covered the face of England and Wales with schools.""
- 2 a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet wordnet
- 3 A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
- 4 a small flat compressed cake of some substance wordnet
- 5 A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance in solid form.
"Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement."
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- 6 a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription wordnet
- 7 A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
"Take a full-size writing tablet and follow these steps."
- 8 a portable computer with a touchscreen wordnet
- 9 A graphics tablet.
- 10 a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge wordnet
- 11 A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
- 12 A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge. Scotland
- 13 A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
"The latter's loss of time between Manakau and Levin was due to the mishap of dropping the tablet at Ohau, which entailed an out-of-course stop of 3 min. to recover it."
- 1 To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).
From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).
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