tab

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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
  2. A tableau curtain. informal
  3. A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs. informal
    — 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.
  4. A tabloid newspaper. colloquial
    — By 1926 the tabloid mania was at full tilt, and the tabs in New York went at each other with hammer and tong.
  5. 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.
  6. A restaurant bill. Canada,US,informal
    — to pick up the tab
  7. A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
  8. A cigarette. Geordie,Mackem
    — Lend us a tab!
  9. An ear. slang
  10. Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate. Canada,US,informal
    — to start a tab
  11. The cost or bill for anything. broadly
    — Moreover, at a tab of $9 million, the system's price is about $1 million less than a conventional heating-cooling plant […]
  12. A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls. broadly
  13. A 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.
  14. The page or form (for example, on a web browser or file manager) associated with such a navigational widget. broadly
    — How many tabs are open on your browser right now?
  15. A fast march or run with full kit. British-Army,slang
动词 v.
  1. 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.
    — You can prevent a control from getting the focus when the user is tabbing between controls by settings its IsTabStop property to False.
  2. To affix with tabs; to label. transitive

词形变化

tabs plural tabs present,singular,third-person tabbing participle,present tabbed participle,past tabbed past tabs plural tabs present,singular,third-person tabbing participle,present tabbed participle,past tabbed past tabs plural tabs plural tabs plural Tab alternative tabs plural tabs plural tabs plural

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词源

词源 1
First attested 1607, of uncertain origin.
词源 2
Apocopation (shortening) of (variously) tabulate, tabulator, or tabulation.
词源 3
Likely to have been formed by clipping the Geordie pronunciation of the word tobacco or alternatively from the brand name Ogden's Tabs.
词源 4
Clipping of tablature.
词源 5
Clipping of Cantab, from Cantabrigian, from Latin Cantabrigia (“Cambridge”).
词源 6
Clipping of tabloid.
词源 7
Clipping of tablet.
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