Definitions for tabs

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Spelling: [tab]

IPA: /tæb/

Tabs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in tabs (abst).

Definitions for tabs

noun

1. a small flap, strap, loop, or similar appendage, as on a garment, used for pulling, hanging, or decoration.
2. a tag or label.
3. a small projection from a card, paper, or folder, used as an aid in filing.
4. Informal. a bill, as for a meal in a restaurant; check.
5. a small piece attached or intended to be attached, as to an automobile license plate.
6. a small flap or tongue of material used to seal or close the opening of a container.
7. Also called tabulator, tab key. a key on a typewriter that moves the carriage, typing element, etc., a predetermined number of spaces, used for typing text in columns, for fixed indentations, etc.
8. Also called tab key. a key on a computer keyboard that moves the cursor a predetermined number of spaces, used for keying text in columns or form fields, for fixed indentations, etc.
9. Digital Technology. (in a web browser window or in a spreadsheet or other application) a page displayed by clicking on or selecting a user interface element that resembles a paper tab: the display of this user interface element:
10. Theater. a small, often narrow, drop curtain, for masking part of the stage. tableau curtain.
11. Aeronautics. a small airfoil hinged to the rear portion of a control surface, as to an elevator, aileron, or rudder. Compare trim tab.
12. tabloid (def 1).
13. Slang. a tablet, as of a drug or medication.

Idioms

1. keep tabs / tab on, Informal. to keep an account of; check on; observe:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or ornament with a tab or tabs.
2. to name or designate.

verb (used without object)

1. to operate the tab function on a typewriter or computer.

Origin of tabs

1600-10; most senses of unknown origin;in def 7 short for tabulator; in def 10 short for tableau; in defs 4, 15 short for Examples for tabs

He was taking twenty 80mg tabs of Oxy a day!Did he have any sober periods?

The committee has not forced the issue, a decision one member has ascribed to fear of the Murdoch tabs.

And From the Department of British Tabloids The World Cup is pretty much over, as far as the tabs are concerned.

Even though I disappoint you ever so badly, you must know so, dear tabs.

Don't you see, tabs, we men and girls have got to find out afresh who we are?

Obama took particular pleasure in sending his tabs to [government minister] Tom Mboya himself or to [politician] Mwai Kibaki.

Jim tipped liberally, because his firm was what is known as "easy on the tabs."

She too has taken quite a blistering in the media—this after spending months on the run from the tabs.

They unhooked four of the six tabs from the wall and donned them.

There was a friend of yores in a while ago who seemed to be sort of keepin' tabs on him.