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say it: tab
tab is a noun meaning "the bill in a restaurant". It is pronounced /ˈtæb/ — tab. It carries 5 recorded senses.
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the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation
a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it
“pull the tab to open the can”
“files with a red tab will be stored separately”
“the collar has a tab with a button hole”
“the filing cards were organized by cards having indexed tabs”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tab come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.