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Tab   /tæb/   Listen
noun
Tab  n.  
1.
The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
2.
A tag. See Tag, 2.
3.
A loop for pulling or lifting something.
4.
A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
5.
A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
6.
A small projecting piece of a file folder, file card, or similar sheet used in a filing system, on which a notation is written to permit convenient search for the folder, card, etc.
7.
A bill or check for some purchase, as in a restaurant; as, the salesman will pick up the tab.
8.
A key on a typewriter or computer keyboard which advances the carriage or curser to the next (preset) tab position; used especially to type or print text or numbers in columns.






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"Tab" Quotes from Famous Books



... putting the creditor in possession of the goods of the debtor, with power of sale, which proceeding rendered the debtor infamous. See several passages in Walter., Roem Rechtsgesch, 763 ff; Tertull., Apol., 4; Tab. Herac. I, 115 ff. Later, Caesar's Lex Julia permitted the honest debtor to escape imprisonment by the assignment of ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher

... next day as usual, but I chuckled whenever I saw them. For we were doing a little sleuthing ourselves. I borrowed Jimmie from the firm and the little gamin kept tab on Bothwell. ...
— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine

... morning with a new elation. He must be more careful about keeping tab on his money, but also it was wonderful to find more than you expected. He left the storeroom that reeked of kerosene and passed into the emporium to replace his treasure in its hiding place. The big room was dusky behind the drawn front curtains, but all ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson

... INNOMINATUM, in the child, consists of three pieces. These, in the adult, become united, and constitute but one bone. In the sides of these bones is a deep socket, or depression, like a cup, called the ac-e-tab'u-lum, in which the round head ...
— A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter

... Mexican drawings, and continues thus: "If we examine osteologically the skulls of the natives of America, we see that there is no race on the globe in which the frontal bone is more flattened or which have less forehead.[267] (Blumenbach, Decas Quinta Craniorum, tab. xlvi., p. 14, 1808.) This extraordinary flattening exists among people of the copper-colored race, who have never been acquainted with the custom of producing artificial deformities, as is proved by the skulls of Mexican, Peruvian, and Aztec ...
— The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton


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