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"TABLETS" is a plural of: tablet. |
Date "TABLETS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A solid disc containing one or more medicaments. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TABLETSSynonym: Plaques. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Memory | Noun: memory, remembrance; retention, retentiveness; tenacity; veteris vestigia flammae; tablets of the memory; readiness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Yes, the actual Ten Commandments, the original stone tablets that Moses brought down from Mt. Arat and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing (Raiders of the Lost Ark; writing credit: George Lucas; Philip Kaufman) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Middlesex Hospital, London, England. : Tablets prepared by machine. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Eat Your Iron Rich Foods Take Your Iron Tablets : Don't Risk Your Life And Baby's. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Daily Fluoride Tablets for Healthier Smiles. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Ancestral tablets, Foochow, China. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Little White Pills 2" by Paige Foster Commentary: "Macro of white headache tablets." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | Her aunt pocketed the tablets instantly |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Health | Three to six tablets are taken just before a meal or snack. (references) | |
The usual dose is 2 to 4 tablets taken just before eating and 1 hour after meals. (references) | ||
Activated charcoal tablets (Charcocaps) may provide relief from gas in the colon. (references) | ||
Business | Water purification tablets might also prove useful in other situations. (references) | |
The company also leads the tonic segment with Minadex Tonic, a popular tonic brand for children, and owns Haliborange, the popular brand of Vitamin C tablets. (references) | ||
Lichtwer Pharma, the German herbal supplement manufacturer, markets it popular Kwai brand of garlic tablets in the United Kingdom, garnering about 30 percent of the U.K. garlic market. (references) | ||
Economic History | Mauritius | Mauritius Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Ltd is the only company manufacturing tablets, capsules, ointments, and liquids for the local market. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TABLETS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.24% of the time. "TABLETS" is used about 925 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.24% | 918 | 7,828 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.54% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 925 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "TABLETS": Amarna tablets ♦ Azulfidine Tablets ♦ Dimaphen Tablets [OTC] ♦ Nitrong Oral Tablets ♦ tablets of the memory. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "TABLETS": sleeping-tablets. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TABLETS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 片剂 (Tablet, troche). (various references) | |
Danish | tabletter. (various references) | |
Dutch | trochiscus, tabuletta, tablet (board, plank, plate, sheet, slab), tabella. (various references) | |
French | tabloïde (tabloid), comprimé (tablet). (various references) | |
German | Tabletten (tabloids). (various references) | |
Greek | πίνακας COHN (Cohn tablets). (various references) | |
Italian | tavoletta (bar, cake, slab, table, tablet, tabloid), compressa (compress, envelope, tablet). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 健胃錠 (stomach tablets). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けんいじょう (stomach tablets). (various references) | |
Korean | 정제 (refining, Tablet). (various references) | |
Manx | asprynyn (aspirin tablets). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abletstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lapides. (various references) | |
Spanish | tabletillas. (various references) | |
Swedish | lertavlor. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai thn sunqesin tou kosmou thV doxhV kai touV clidwnaV kai ta yelia kai to emplokion kai ta peridexia kai touV daktuliouV kai ta enwtia |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Discriminalia et periscelidas et murenulas et olfactoriola et inaures |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And ribanes, and `reuerses at the hemmis, and `oynement boxes, and ere ringus, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | Ang mga kalo nga panapton, ug ang ligas, ug ang mga laso sa ulo, ug ang mga kahon-kahon sa pahumot, ug mga anting-anting; |
| Croatian | poveze, lanèiæe, pojaseve, boèice s miomirisima i privjese, |
| Danish | Hovedsmykker, Ankelkæder, Bælter, Lugtedåser, Trylleringe, |
| Dutch | De hoofdkroning, en de armversierselen, en de bindselen, en de reukballetjes, en de oorringen, |
| Finnish | juhlapäähineet, jalkakäädyt, koruvyöt, hajupullot, taikahelyt, |
| French | Les diadèmes, les chaînettes des pieds et les ceintures, Les boîtes de senteur et les amulettes; |
| German | die Flitter, die Gebräme, die Schnürlein, die Bisamäpfel, die Ohrenspangen, |
| Hungarian | A fülönfüggõket, a karpereczeket és a fátyolokat, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | tudung kepala, jimat-jimat di lengan dan pinggang, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan segala perhiasan kepala dan segala gelang dan segala ikat pinggang dan segala selepa dan segala anting-anting, |
| Italian | bende, catenine ai piedi, cinture, boccette di profumi, amuleti, |
| Maori | Nga potae, nga whakapaipai o nga waewae, nga pakawe, nga pouaka hongihongi me nga whakakai, |
| Norwegian | hodeprydelsene og fotkjedene og beltene og lukteflaskene og tryllesmykkene, |
| Portuguese | os diademas, as cadeias dos artelhos, os cintos, as caixinhas de perfumes e os amuletos; |
| Rumanian | legqturile de pe cap, lqnyiwoarele dela picioare wi brkele, cutiile cu mirosuri wi bqierele desckntate; |
| Russian | РЕТУФОЙ Й ЛПМШГБ Ч ОПУХ, |
| Spanish | los adornos de la cabeza, los adornos de los pies, las cintas, los frasquitos de perfume, los amuletos, |
| Swedish | huvudprydnader, fotstegskedjor, gördlar, luktflaskor och amuletter, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"TABLETS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kabelitz, stablets, tabet, tablesw, tablete, tablt, tabmet, tabrets, Tibbets. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TABLETS" (pronounced ta"bluts) |
| 4 | -l u t s | amulets, anklets, articulates, ballots, billets, booklets, bracelets, branchlets, bullets, chocolates, consulates, correlates, droplets, eyelets, fillets, hamlets, helots, islets, leaflets, millets, nutlets, omelets, palates, pallets, pamphlets, particulates, pellets, piglets, pilots, platelets, prelates, quintuplets, sextuplets, starlets, toilets, triplets, violets, wallets, zealots. |
| 3 | -u t s | advocates, affidavits, affiliates, affricates, agates, aggregates, animates, approximates, associates, audits, Babbitts, bandits, banquets, barbiturates, baronets, baskets, berets, bigots, biscuits, blankets, bluebonnets, brackets, buckets, budgets, buffets, cabinets, carats, carpets, carrots, caskets, certificates, chariots, chestnuts, cheviots, ciliates, circuits, climates, closets, comets, compatriots, composites, conduits, conglomerates, coordinates, covets, credits, crickets, culprits, deficits, degenerates, demerits, deposits, diets, digits, discredits, dockets, doctorates, edits, electorates, electromagnets, elicits, Emirates, ergots, estimates, exhibits, exits, facets, faucets, favorites, ferrets, frigates, gadgets, garrets, gaskets, graduates, guesstimates, habits, hatchets, helmets, hermits, hornets, hypermarkets, idiots, illiterates, inaugurates, ingots, inhabits, inherits, inhibits, initiates, intermediates, interprets, intimates, invertebrates, jackets, jesuits, junkets, laminates, lancets, laureates, legates, limits, limpets, maggots, magnets, markets, merits, microcircuits, microclimates, midgets, minutes, moderates, nonprofits, nuggets, opiates, opposites, orbits, packets, parrots, patriots, peanuts, perquisites, pickets, pickpockets, pirates, planets, plaudits, plummets, pockets, poets, portraits, posits, prerequisites, privates, profits, prohibits, prophets, puppets, quiets, rackets, racquets, requisites, revisits, rickets, riots, rivets, rockets, russets, secrets, silicates, snippets, sockets, solicits, spigots, spirits, summits, supermarkets, surrogates, targets, tenets, thickets, tickets, trinkets, trumpets, turrets, underestimates, undergraduates, unfortunates, units, visits, wastebaskets, whats, wickets, widgets. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: battles. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: ablest, battle, bettas, bleats, latest, lattes, stable, tables, tablet. | |
-2 letters: abets, ables, bales, baste, bates, batts, beast, beats, belts, betas, betta, blase, blast, blate, blats, bleat, blest, blets, latte, least, sable, setal, slate, stale, state, steal, stela, tabes, table, taels, tales, taste, tates, teals, teats, tesla, testa. | |
-3 letters: abet, able, albs, ales, alts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: abettals, battlers, blatters, brattles, seatbelt, stablest, statable, tastable, testable. | |
+2 letters: blastiest, blastment, bractlets, butylates, embattles, outbleats, rebuttals, seatbelts, spottable, stateable, stylobate, tabletops, tabulates, trustable, tubulates. | |
+3 letters: absolutest, battleship, beastliest, bestiality, betrothals, biathletes, blastemata, blastments, cabalettas, cobaltites, detestable, detestably, litterbags, metastable, metastably, osteoblast, resettable, settleable, stablemate, statutable, stylobates, subtextual, subtotaled, tablatures, tablemates, timetables, tribulates, turntables, unstablest, untestable. | |
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