tablet
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tablet (plural tablets)
- A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
- 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
- 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."
- (religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
- A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance in solid form.
- Coordinate term: capsule
- Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
- A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
- 2005, Kenneth T. Henson, Writing for Publication: Road to Academic Advancement, →ISBN, page 80:
- Take a full-size writing tablet and follow these steps.
- (computing) A graphics tablet.
- (computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
- (Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
- (rail transport) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
- 1939 November, “Overseas Railways: Locomotive Performance in New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Scottish Gaelic: tablaid
Translations
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]tablet (third-person singular simple present tablets, present participle tableting or tabletting, simple past and past participle tableted or tabletted)
- (transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.
References
[edit]- “tablet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French tablette.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tablet f or n (plural tabletten, diminutive tabletje n)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: tablet
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tablet m (plural tablets)
- tablet computer
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch tablet, from Middle French tablette, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of tabel.
- Semantic loan from English tablet for tablet computer sense.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tablèt (first-person possessive tabletku, second-person possessive tabletmu, third-person possessive tabletnya)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tablet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French tablete; equivalent to table + -et.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tablet (plural tablettes)
- A tablet, especially an easily carried one for writing on.
- (biblical) The Ten Commandments in physical form handed down from heaven.
- A level surface for painting or working upon.
- A piece of jewellery with a level portion.
- (rare) A marble slab utilised as tiling.
- (rare) A pill; a tablet for medication.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “tablet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English tablet, from Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tablet m inan
- (computing) digitizer, graphics tablet (small, easily swallowed portion of a substance)
- (computing) tablet computer
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- tablet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tablet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English tablet.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]tablet m (plural tablets)
- (computing) tablet computer (a type of portable computer)
- Synonym: táblete
Further reading
[edit]- “tablet”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English tablet.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tablet m or f same meaning (plural tablets)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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- Rhymes:English/æblət
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛt
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- enm:Writing
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- Rhymes:Polish/ablɛt
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ablet
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- es:Computing