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Definition: Tab |
TabNoun1. The bill in a restaurant; "he asked the waiter for the check". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tab" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Note: Tab \Tab\, noun. [Etymology uncertain.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | TAB HT. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Fine Arts | A sheet of canvas or other material, framed or unframed, smaller than a drop but suspended like it, used for a variety of purposes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A projection on the circle of the double locker carriage below the blade, which engages with the locker bar to enable it to propel and hold the carriage. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The starting point of a weave. This is seen in illustration A and B which are said to be plain weaves'on opposite tab'. Tab is probably derived from, 'tabby', especially when used in relation to plain weave. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Tab An old Tab. An old maid; an old tabby or cat. So called because old maids usually make a cat their companion. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | Token, check, tally. Syn:teller. (references) |
Public Administration | High-quality guides, however, have metal or plastic tabs that are riveted to the body of the guide. Such tabs have a slot for the insertion of a caption label under a transparent plastic window. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | A hinged rear portion of a control surface or flap. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tab was the name of the first diet soda produced by Coca Cola. Although still manufactured, its sales have been dwarfed by Diet Coke.
Tab is a common abbreviation (especially online) for tablature.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tab."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TAB | English | Totalisator Agency Boards | N/A |
TAB | Finnish | Automaattinen teippiasennus elektroniikan komponenttien valmistuksessa | Electrical Engineering |
TAB | Spanish | Cohesión automatizada de película | Electrical Engineering |
| tabtd | English | Combined tab vaccine plus tetanus and diptheria toxoid | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TabSynonyms: check (n), chit (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tab |
| English words defined with "tab": ASCII control character ♦ control character ♦ slide fastener ♦ tab key ♦ zip, zip-fastener, zipper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tab": 386SPART.PAR ♦ BINDERY WORKER ♦ comma separated values, control code, controlled tab ♦ DIE MAKER ♦ first-line indent tab, flat folder, FOLDER, HAND ♦ geared tab ♦ horizontal tabulation ♦ increased tabulation, internal field separators, invisible character ♦ non-print character, non-printable character, non-printing character, non-printing symbol ♦ open style, overført overskud eller tab ♦ Radiography, Bitewing ♦ steel-rule die maker ♦ tab washer, tab washer with internal tongue, TAB-MACHINE OPERATOR, to line up figures on the comma ♦ vertical tab ♦ white-space character. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tab" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (loss), German (tab), Turkish (print, printing). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | tuna fish on white bread with mayonnaise, a Tab, and a couple of Twinkies. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) No. Stick it on my tab. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Velcro. Next to the Walkman and tab it is the coolest invention of the 20th century! (Girls Just Want to Have Fun; writing credit: Amy Spies) Hey, you know that last tab of acid I was saving? (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola) Yeah, run a tab! (Ghosts of Mars; writing credit: Larry Sulkis; John Carpenter) | |
Lyrics | Maybe I should buy some old tab collars? ("It's Still Rock and Roll To Me"; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Tab Hunter Show (1960) Tab & vind med Gordon & Timm (1998) | |
Song Titles | YOUNG LOVE (performing artist: Tab Hunter ) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Some say that the taxpayer should pick up the tab for toxic waste and let polluters who can afford to fix it off the hook. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Tab" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.01% of the time. "Tab" is used about 239 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 (singular) | 82.01% | 196 | 21,868 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.79% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.18% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.51% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.09% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 0.42% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 239 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | TAB Limited | USA | Tab Products Co. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "tab": aileron tab ♦ balance tab ♦ control tab ♦ controlled tab ♦ elevator control tab ♦ geared tab ♦ keep a tab on ♦ keep tab on ♦ name tab ♦ overført overskud eller tab ♦ pick up the tab ♦ rudder control tab ♦ tab key ♦ tab washer ♦ tab washer with internal tongue ♦ trimming tab ♦ vertical tab. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tab": tab-collared, tab-ends, tab-labs, tab-packaged, tab-pulls, tab-separated values. | |
Ending with "tab": Ery-Tab, index-tab, mini-tab, pull-tab, safety-tab, servo-tab, Shift-tab, trim-tab. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tab | 7,290 |
bass tab | 3,041 |
free guitar tab | 1,798 |
metallica tab | 1,266 |
drum tab | 1,259 |
christian guitar tab | 1,214 |
piano tab | 754 |
jack johnson tab | 667 |
john mayer tab | 587 |
beatles tab | 545 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tab"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vesh rrobe, qep (dry up, hold one's tongue, ligature, needle, seam, sew, sew on, stitch, tailor), paracaktoj (designate, destine, foreordain, mean, ordain, order, prearrange, predestine, predetermine, pre-establish, reserve, will), lidhëse (lace, lacing, string, tie), ilik (buttonhole, mesh, noose, shank, stitch, tag), dalloj (descry, differ, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, espy, individualize, know, perceive, pick out, show smb. up, sight, single out, tell them apart, trace). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجسة الأذن, مراقبة شديدة, لسان (armlet, cape, language, tenon, tongue), حساب (account, calculation, computation, counting, enumeration, reckoning, tally), سعر (frenzy, price, quote, rate), زود بعروة, عروة (handle, tag), شريط الحذاء (shoelace, shoestring, tag), بطاقة الأسعار (price tag, tally). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ушенце, сметка (account, bill, check, guess, reckoning, score, shot), слагам етикети на, слагам етикет на (docket, label), тример, наушник (flap, lug), закачалка на дреха, етикет (ceremonial, check, docket, etiquette, formality, label, stamp, sticker, tally, ticket), проверка (audit, check, checkup, probation, proof, revision, test, verification), петелка (button hole, eye), петлица. (various references) | |
Chinese | 带子 (BIND). (various references) | |
Czech | výložka, poutko (eyelet, hanger, tag), jmenovka (label, name plate, nameplate, tag), evidence (records, register, registration), etiketa (etiquette, label, tag), úèet (account, bill, check, invoice, receipt). (various references) | |
Danish | tabulatortast, tab (abortion, dissipation, ear, electric utility losses, loss, losses, miscarriage, silence, spontaneous abortion, wastage), udgangspunkt i en bindingspatron (footing), rørbøjle (collar, pipe bracket, pipe clamp, staple), hjælperor, øre (auris, ear). (various references) | |
Dutch | treklipje, tab (ear), uitgangspunt van bindingspatroon (footing), leren veter, hulpvlak, hulproer, beugel (bail, clamp, clasp, gimbal, pipe bracket, ring, stapes, staple, stay, stirrup, strap, tightening band, trolley, yoke). (various references) | |
Farsi | هزینه (Charge, Cost, Disbursement, Expenditure, Expense, Outgo, Outlay), نوارزدن به , نشان دارکردن (Stamp, Stigmatize), گلچین کردن (Cull, Excerpt, Pluck), حساب (Account, Arithmetic, Calculation, Score, Tale, Tally), صورتحساب (Bill), شمارش (Computation), باریکه دادن به , باریکه (Isthmus, Jog, Slab, Slice, Strip), برگ (Card, Folio, Leaf, Page). (various references) | |
Finnish | levy (blade, board, composite board, foil, lacquered board, marker, metal sheet, piece, piles, plaque, plate, sheet, sheeting, slab, tablet, wall plaque), letkukiristin (pipe bracket, staple). (various references) | |
French | patte (tag). (various references) | |
German | tab, etikett (docket, etiquette, label, labelling, sticker, tag, ticket). (various references) | |
Greek | στόπερ (adjustable stop, ear, outer control lever, position stop, stop), στηλοθέτηση, βραχίονας στήριξης σωλήνα (pipe bracket, staple), βάση (base, base course, base plate, baseplate, basis, bearer plates, bed, bed plate, bosh, cradle, equipment shelf, foot, foothold, footing, foundation lace, ground, groundwork, kernel, knitted backing, mounting, pedestal, pinch, rack, radix, road base, root, socket, sole, sole-plate, standard, step, substrate, support), πτερυγίδιο, λωρί (strap), λογαριασμόσ (account, bill, calculation, count, reckoning, score, tally), λοβόσ (auricle, lobe, lug), αρχή (address constant, base address, basis, beginning, commencement, footing, forepart, inception, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, magistracy, onset, origin, origination, outset, prime, principle, source, start, starting point), αυτί (auris, ear, lug), τεμαχίδιο, θηλιά (loop, noose, slip knot, snarl, stitch, strop). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתל" (rack, sling, suspension), מ"ף (ledge, plank, rack, shelf, tray), לולא" (bow, buttonhole, hitch, loop, noose), תוית (button, docket, label, tag, tally, ticket), ת' (badge, circumflex, label, tag), פתק" (chit, note). (various references) | |
Hungarian | poggyászcímke, akasztó (clothes peg, hanger, hook). (various references) | |
Indonesian | syal (cravat, muffler, scarf), selilit (around, one twist). (various references) | |
Italian | etichetta (ceremonial, etiquette, formalization, label, sticker, tag, ticket). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | タバコモザイク病 (sound like tapping a soft belly, tablet, tabloid, taboo, talc, talisman, thallium, tobacco mosaic, tough, toughness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | タブ . (various references) | |
Korean | 태브. (various references) | |
Manx | fooag (tassel, thrum). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tabulação (tabulation). (various references) | |
Romanian | agãţãtoare (hanger). (various references) | |
Russian | ярлык (check, label, price tag, tag, ticket), сводить в таблицы (tabulate), вешалка (hanger, hatrack, peg, rack, rail), петелька (eye, eyelet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trimer, tabulator (tabulator), umetak (bushing, filler, gusset, hairpiece, inlay, insert, insertion, inset, parenthesis), račun (account, arithmetic, bill, calculation, calculus, check, chit, count, reckoning), pokretni poklopac (flap). (various references) | |
Spanish | teddy, tabular (tabular, tabulate), tabulador (tabulator), tabulación (index, register, rule, schedule, table, tabulation), tab (tape automated bonding), resguardo (backup, certificate, evidence of title, guard, stub, ticket, voucher), presilla (batten, batten plate, buttonhole, clip, footing, loop, presser foot, stay plate, tie plate), pata (Drake, duck, f, female duck, flat, foot, hoof, lap, leg, pad, paw, peg, strap), oreja (auricle, auris, bootstrap, claw, concha, ear, earflap, flap, fluke, handle, informer, lug, palm, pinna, wing), lengüeta (barb, beard, craddle, epiglottis, feed gate, gate, Reed, scab, shell, sliver, spill, spline, tongue), etiqueta (amenities, black tie, dinner-jacket, docket, etiquette, formality, label, Mark, tag, ticket, tuxedo), cuenta (account, an account, bead, bill, calculation, check, count, estimate, invoice, reckoning, score, tally), borde liso (ear). (various references) | |
Swedish | lapp (clout, laplander, Lapp, patch, piece, rag, scrap, slip, tag, ticket), etikett (convention, etiquette, form, label, tag, tally, ticket). (various references) | |
Thai | แถบเหล็กปิ"เปิ"เครื่องกระป๋อง, เม็", บุหรี่ (cig, cigaret, cigarette, ciggy, coffin nail, fag, faggerette, oily), ฉลาก, ราคา (rate), ปุ่มบนแป้นพิมพ์"ี"หรือคอมพิวเตอร์. (various references) | |
Turkish | uç (apex, bit, cusp, end, extremity, peak, point, pole, tail, terminal, the extreme, tip, toe, top), spolet, flâpa, etiket (docket, etiquette, flag, label, sticker, tag, tally, ticket), şerit (band, braid, cord, fascia, fillet, gut, lace, riband, ribbon, roadway, spline, strap, strip, stripe, tape, tapeworm, traffic lane, welt), çıkıntı (bulge, foreland, jut, ledge, offset, outgrowth, overhang, process, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, raise, ridge, salience, saliency, spur, style, stylus). (various references) | |
Ukranian | розташовувати у вигляді таблиць, вішалка (peg, portmanteau, rack, shoulder), виділяти (accent, accentuate, apportion, appropriate, discriminate, evolve, excrete, exempt, exude, give off, ooze, point out, secrete, signalize, single out, singularize, throw off), нашивка (stripe), нашивати, петлиця. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tai (souse), vạt, sự kiểm tra (check-up, inspection), đầu (extremity, offal, premier, primary, tip). (various references) | |
Welsh | pwyntil (pencil, tag). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tab": tabanid, tabanids, tabard, tabarded, tabards, tabaret, tabarets, tabbed, tabbied, tabbies, tabbing, tabbis, tabbises, tabbouleh, tabboulehs, tabby, tabbying, taber, tabered, tabering, tabernacle, tabernacled, tabernacles, tabernacling, tabernacular, tabers, tabes, tabetic, tabetics, tabid, tabla, tablas, tablature, tablatures, table, tableau, tableaus, tableaux, tablecloth, tablecloths, tabled, tableful, tablefuls, tableland, tablelands, tablemate, tablemates, tables, tablesful, tablespoon, tablespoonful, tablespoonfuls, tablespoons, tablespoonsful, tablet, tableted, tableting, tabletop, tabletops, tablets, tabletted, tabletting, tableware, tablewares, tabling, tabloid, tabloids, taboo, tabooed, tabooing, tabooley, tabooleys, taboos, tabor, tabored, taborer, taborers, taboret, taborets, taborin, taborine, taborines, taboring, taborins, tabors, tabouli, taboulis, tabour, taboured, tabourer, tabourers, tabouret, tabourets, tabouring, tabours, tabs, tabu, tabued, tabuing, tabular, tabulate, tabulated, tabulates, tabulating, tabulation, tabulations, tabulator, tabulators, tabuli, tabulis, tabun, tabuns, tabus. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tab": backstab, stab. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tab": abatable, abstractable, acceptabilities, acceptability, acceptable, acceptableness, acceptablenesses, acceptably, accountabilities, accountability, accountable, accountableness, accountablenesses, accountably, accreditable, acetabula, acetabular, acetabulum, acetabulums, actabilities, actability, actable, adaptabilities, adaptability, adaptable, adjustabilities, adjustability, adjustable, adoptabilities, adoptability, adoptable, affectabilities, affectability, affectable, agitable, allocatable, anticipatable, antiestablishment, antimetabolic, antimetabolics, antimetabolite, antimetabolites, atabal, atabals, attaboy, attemptable, attributable, auditable, automatable, backstabbed, backstabber, backstabbers, backstabbing, backstabbings, backstabs, beatable, bitable, boatable, bootable, cantabile, cartable, castabilities, castability, castable, catabolic, catabolically, catabolism, catabolisms, catabolite, catabolites, catabolize, catabolized, catabolizes, catabolizing, charitable, charitableness, charitablenesses, charitably, chelatable, circulatable, citable, cogitable, collectable, collectables, comfortable, comfortableness, comfortablenesses, comfortably, committable, commutable, computabilities, computability, computable, confiscatable, connectable, constable, constables, constabularies, constabulary, contestable, contradictable, contrastable, copyrightable, correctable, correlatable, countabilities, countability, countable, countably, covetable, creditabilities, creditability, creditable, creditableness, creditablenesses, creditably, cultivatable, cutabilities, cutability, cuttable, databank, databanks, database, databases, datable, debatable, deflectable, delectabilities, delectability, delectable, delectables, delectably, demountable, depletable, deportable, destabilization, destabilizations, destabilize, destabilized, destabilizes, destabilizing, detectabilities, detectability, detectable, detestable, detestableness, detestablenesses, detestably, detonatable, dilatabilities, dilatability, dilatable, discomfortable, discountable, discreditable, discreditably, disestablish, disestablished, disestablishes, disestablishing, disestablishment, disestablishmentarian, disestablishmentarians, disestablishments, disputable, disputably, disreputabilities, disreputability, disreputable, disreputableness, disreputablenesses, disreputably, disrespectabilities, disrespectability, disrespectable, distractable, documentable, doubtable, draftable, dubitable, eatable, eatables, editable, ejectable, electabilities, electability, electable, entablature, entablatures, equitabilities, equitability, equitable, equitableness, equitablenesses, equitably, erectable, escheatable, establish, establishable, established, establisher, establishers, establishes, establishing, establishment, establishmentarian, establishmentarianism, establishmentarianisms, establishmentarians, establishments, evitable, exactable, excitabilities, excitability, excitable, excitableness, excitablenesses, executable, executables, expectable, expectably, exploitable, exportabilities, exportability, exportable, extractabilities, extractability, extractable, extraditable, fantabulous, fermentable, fittable, forecastable, forfeitable, forgettable, getable, getatable, gettable, grantable, gustable, gustables, gyrostabilizer, gyrostabilizers, habitabilities, habitability, habitable, habitableness, habitablenesses, habitably, harvestable, hatable, heatable, hemimetabolous, heritabilities, heritability, heritable, holometabolism, holometabolisms, holometabolous, hospitable, hospitably, huntable, hypercatabolism, hypercatabolisms, hyperexcitabilities, hyperexcitability, hyperexcitable, hyperirritabilities, hyperirritability, hyperirritable, hypermetabolic, hypermetabolism, hypermetabolisms, hypermutabilities, hypermutability, hypermutable, ignitabilities, ignitability, ignitable, illimitabilities, illimitability, illimitable, illimitableness, illimitablenesses, illimitably, imitable, immutabilities, immutability, immutable, immutableness, immutablenesses, immutably, implantable, importable, imputabilities, imputability, imputable, incommutable, incommutably, incomputable, incomputably, incontestabilities, incontestability, incontestable, incontestably, indictable, indisputable, indisputableness, indisputablenesses, indisputably, indomitabilities, indomitability, indomitable, indomitableness, indomitablenesses, indomitably, indubitabilities, indubitability, indubitable, indubitableness, indubitablenesses, indubitably, ineluctabilities, ineluctability, ineluctable, ineluctably, inequitable, inequitably, inevitabilities, inevitability, inevitable, inevitableness, inevitablenesses, inevitably, inflatable, inflatables, inflectable, inhabitable, inheritabilities, inheritability, inheritable, inheritableness, inheritablenesses, inhospitable, inhospitableness, inhospitablenesses, inhospitably, inimitable, inimitableness, inimitablenesses, inimitably, injectable, injectables, inscrutabilities, inscrutability, inscrutable, inscrutableness, inscrutablenesses, inscrutably, instabilities, instability, instable, insupportable, insupportably, insurmountable, insurmountably, interpretabilities, interpretability, interpretable, intersubstitutabilities, intersubstitutability, intersubstitutable, intertranslatable, intractabilities, intractability, intractable, intractably, intuitable, investable, irrefutabilities, irrefutability, irrefutable, irrefutably, irritabilities, irritability, irritable, irritableness, irritablenesses, irritably, isolatable, katabatic, lamentable, lamentableness, lamentablenesses, lamentably, liftable, limitable, listable, locatable, manipulatable, marketabilities. 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"Tab" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atbc, atub, Ctab, eab, Iab, iteb, kab, Ktaeb, Ntaba, tabbo, tabe, tabk, tabo, tabt, taby, taeb, taf, taj, tamb, taq, tarb, tatb, taub, tav, tba, tbam, tbc, tbd, tbw, teab, teabe, teb, teba, tebe, terb, Thaabe, thab, thabe, tib, tiba, Tibb, tibc, tiby, tibz, tieb, tilb, tiv, tjab, tlabe, toab, tob, toib, Trab, Trabb, tsu, Tubb, tuo, tyb, Tzaban, vab, zab. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tab" (pronounced ta"b) |
| 3 | t a" b | stab. |
| 2 | -a" b | Ab, cab, crab, dab, drab, flab, gab, grab, jab, lab, Nab, prefab, scab, slab. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-t" | |
-1 letter: ab, at, ba, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-t" | |
+1 letter: abet, abut, baht, bait, bast, bate, bath, bats, batt, beat, beta, blat, boat, bota, brat, stab, tabs, tabu, tuba. | |
+2 letters: abaft, abate, abbot, abets, abort, about, abuts, ambit, bahts, baith, baits, banty, baste, basts, batch, bated, bates, bathe, baths, batik, baton, batts, battu, batty, bawty, beast, beats, beaut, begat, betas, betta, biota, blast, blate, blats, bleat, bloat, boart, boast, boats, botas, bract, brant, brats, habit, jabot, rabat, sabot, stabs, tabby, taber, tabes, tabid, tabla, table, taboo, tabor, tabun, tabus, tibia, tsuba, tubae, tubal, tubas. | |
+3 letters: abated, abater, abates, abatis, abator, abbots, abduct, abject, ablate, ablaut, ablest, aborts, abrupt, absent, abvolt, abwatt, albata, albeit, albite, ambits, arbute, atabal, baguet, baited, baiter, balata, ballet, ballot, bandit, bannet, bantam, banter, barbet, barbut, barest, barite, barret, barter, baryta, baryte, basalt, basest, basket, basset, basted, baster, bastes, batboy, bateau, bathed, bather, bathes, bathos, batiks, bating, batman, batmen, batons, batted, batten, batter, battik, battle, battue, bawtie, beasts, beaten, beater, beauts, beauty, bemata, berate, bertha, betake, betray, bettas, bezant, bhakta, bhakti, binate, biotas, blasts, blasty, bleats, bloats, boarts, boasts, boated, boatel, boater, bobcat, bonita, borate, botany, bracts, brants, bratty, breast, breath, brutal, butane, bypast, bypath, bytalk, byzant, cablet, cobalt, combat, debate, gambit, habits, hagbut, hatbox, jabots, labret, lobate, numbat, oblast, oblate, obtain, rabato, rabats, rabbet, rabbit, ratbag, rebait, rebate, rebato, rubati, rubato, sabbat, sabots, sacbut, sagbut, stable, stably, tabard, tabbed, tabbis, tabers, tablas, tabled, tables, tablet, taboos, tabors, tabour, tabued, tabuli, tabuns, tambac, tambak, tambur, teabox, terbia, tibiae, tibial, tibias, timbal, tombac, tombak, tombal, tribal, tubate, turban, tymbal, upbeat, wombat. | |
+4 letters: abaters, abating, abators, abattis, abbotcy, abducts, abettal, abetted, abetter, abettor, abeyant, ability, abiotic, ablated, ablates, ablauts, abluent, abluted, aborted, aborter, abought, abreact, abreast, absents, absinth, abstain, abuttal, abutted, abutter, abvolts, abwatts, acrobat, actable, adhibit, airboat, albatas, albites, albitic, ambient, antbear, antibug, arbiter, arbutes, arbutus, astilbe, atabals, attaboy, autobus, babbitt, babysat, babysit, baccate, backbit, backfit, backlit, backout, backset, baddest, baguets, bailout, baiters, baiting, balatas, baldest, ballast, ballets, ballots, ballute, bandits, bannets, banquet, bantams, banteng, banters, banties, baptise, baptism, baptist, baptize, barbate, barbets, barbuts, barefit, barites, baronet, barrets, bartend, barters, barytas, barytes, barytic, basalts, basinet, baskets, basmati, bassets, bassist, bastard, basters, bastile, basting, bastion, batboys, batched, batcher, batches, bateaux, batfish, batfowl, bathers, bathing, bathmat, bathtub, bathyal, batiste, batlike, batsman, batsmen, batteau, battens, batters, battery, battier, battiks, batting, battled, battler, battles, battues, batwing, bauxite, bawsunt, bawties, bayonet, bearcat, beastie, beastly, beaters, beatify, beating, beatnik, bedfast, bedmate, belated, beleapt, beltway, beneath, benthal, bepaint, berated, berates, beretta, berthas, bestead, bestial, betaine, betaken, betakes, betaxed, bethank, betrays, bewrapt, bezants, bezzant, bhaktas, bhaktis, bimetal, biparty, biretta, bistate, bitable, blanket, blasted, blaster, blastie, blatant, blather, blatted, blatter, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, boasted, boaster, boatels, boaters, boatful, boating, boatman, boatmen, bobcats, bobstay, bobtail, bombast, bonitas, borated, borates, borstal, botanic, bothria, brachet, bracket, bracted, brattle, bravest, brawest, breadth, breasts, breathe, breaths, breathy, brisant, britska, britzka, bromate, bullate, bullbat, bumboat, buoyant, bursate, bustard, butanes, butanol, buttals, butyral, bypaths, bytalks, byzants, cabaret, cabinet, cablets, cambist, catawba, catbird, catboat, citable, cobalts, cohabit, combats, cubital, cutback, cutbank, dabster, datable, debated, debater, debates, dingbat, dirtbag, drabbet, eatable, fatback, fatbird, flatbed, flyboat, gabbart, gabfest, gambits, getable, gigabit, globate, gunboat, habitan, habitat, habited, habitue, habitus, hackbut, hagbuts, halbert, halibut, hatable, hatband, hautboy, iceboat, inhabit, isobath, jetbead, labiate, labrets, lambast, lambent, lambert, librate, limbate, lobated, mastaba, megabit, mutable, mutably, niobate, notable, notably, numbats, oblasti, oblasts, oblates, obovate, obtains, obviate, offbeat, orbital, outback, outbake, outbark, outbawl, outbeam, outbrag, paystub, pigboat, postbag, potable, probate, rabatos, rabbets, rabbits, rabbity, rarebit, ratable, ratably, ratbags, rebaits, rebated, rebater, rebates, rebatos, reboant, redbait, retable, robusta, rowboat, rubatos, sabaton, sabbath, sabbats, sacbuts, sackbut, sagbuts, saltbox, saxtuba, seaboot, setback, sorbate, stabbed, stabber, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, standby, stibial, subatom, sublate, subpart, subtask, subtaxa, sunbath, tabanid, tabards, tabaret, tabbied, tabbies, tabbing, tabered, tabetic, tableau, tablets, tabling, tabloid, tabooed, tabored, taborer, taboret, taborin, tabouli, tabours, tabuing, tabular, tabulis, takable, tallboy, tamable, tambacs, tambaks, tambala, tambour, tambura, tamburs, tanbark, tarbush, taxable, taxably, taxicab, teabowl, tenable, tenably, terbias, tieback, timbale, timbals, timbral, tobacco, tollbar, tomback, tombacs, tombaks, tombola, totable, towboat, triable, tribade, tubaist, tubular, tugboat, tunable, tunably, turbans, turbary, tymbals, typable, typebar, unbated, upbeats, vibrant, vibrate, vibrato, votable, washtub, wetback, wombats. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 62 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01100010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a b |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0062 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)546768 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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