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Webster 1913 Edition
Tablet
1.
A small table or flat surface.
2.
A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
3.
Hence, a small picture; a miniature.
[Obs.]
4.
pl.
A kind of pocket memorandum book.
5.
A flattish cake or piece;
as,
. tablets
of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague6.
(Pharm.)
A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; – called also
lozenge
, and troche
, especially when of a round or rounded form. Webster 1828 Edition
Tablet
TAB'LET
,Noun.
1.
Something flat on which to write, paint, draw or engrave. Through all Greece the young gentlemen learned to design on tablets of boxen wood.
The pillar'd marble, and the tablet brass.
2.
A medicine in a square form. Tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.A solid kind of electuary or confection, made of dry ingredients, usually with sugar, and formed into little flat squares; called also lozenge and troche.
Definition 2024
tablet
tablet
English
Tablets
Noun
tablet (plural tablets)
- A slab of clay used for inscription.
- (religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.
- A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.
- Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
- (computing) A graphics tablet.
- (computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
- (Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter.
Translations
slab of clay
pill — see pill
graphics tablet — see graphics tablet
tablet computer — see tablet computer
(Scotland) type of confection
See also
Verb
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.