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Definition: Tablet |
TabletNoun1. A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription. 2. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge. 3. A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tablet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Tablet \Ta"blet\, noun. [French expression tablette, diminutive of table. See Table.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | TABLET A query language. ["Human Factor Comparison of a Procedural and a Non-procedural Query Language", C. Welty et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 6(4):626-649 (Dec 1981)]. (1994-11-23). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Bible | Tablet probably a string of beads worn round the neck (Ex. 35:22; Num. 31:50). In Isa. 3:20 the Hebrew word means a perfume-box, as it is rendered in the Revised Version. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Public Administration | A number of sheets of paper (as for writing or drawing) that are grouped together in a stack of varying thickness that are fastened at one end. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tablet can mean several things:
- A flat, table-like, surface:
- Writing tablet
- Computer graphics tablet
- A substance pressed into a small cake or bar.
- Pharmacological tablet (pill), described below.
- An extremely sugary form of confectionery
Pharmacologically, a tablet is a medicinal or other active substance mixed with binder powders and pressed into a tablet form.
Most tablets are circular, or disk-shaped, but recent decades have seen many that are oblong or various-shaped. When Tylenol (acetaminophen) capsules were laced with cyanide, many people stopped buying capsules because they are easy to contaminate, in favor of tablets, which are not. Some makers of OTC (over-the-counter) drugs responded by starting to make what they termed "caplets", which were actually just tablets made in the shape of a capsule.
In the tablet-pressing process, it is important that all ingredients be dry, powdered, and of uniform grain size as much as possible. Mixed grain sizes tend to separate out due to operational vibrations, resulting in inconsistent tableting, while any moisture in the system will tend to clog the tableting pathways.
Some substances may be tableted as pure substances, but this is usually not the case. Normally, an inactive ingredient termed a binder is added to help hold the tablet together and give it strength. A wide variety of binders may be used, some common ones including lactose powder, sucrose powder, tapioca starch (cassava flour) and microcrystalline cellulose.
Often, an ingredient is also needed to act as an excipient. This is an ingredient that dissolves readily in water to help the tablet disperse once swallowed. Some binders, such as sucrose, are also excellent excipients.
Small amounts of lubricants are usually added, as well. The most common of these are stearic acid (stearin) and magnesium stearate. These help the tablets, once pressed, to be more easily ejected out of the die.
Many tablets today are coated after being pressed. Some coatings are just to provide color or a smooth finish, or to facilitate printing on the tablet (although characters and symbols are easy to emboss into the tablets using special die sets). Coatings are often sugar-based (the old "sugar-coating"!) to make pill-taking less unpleasant. Some tablets, however, have a special coating termed an enteric coating, which is resistant to stomach acid and takes time to wear away. The purpose of this coating is to prevent dissolution of the tablet in the stomach, where the stomach acid may neutralize the active ingredient, or where the time of passage may compromise its effectiveness, in favor of dissolution in the small intestine, where the active principle is better absorbed.
Tablet presses, the machines that make the tablets, range from small, inexpensive bench-top models that make one tablet at a time, no more than a few thousand an hour, and with only around a half-ton pressure, to large, computerized, industrial models that can make hundreds of thousands of tablets an hour with much greater pressure. Some tablet presses can make extremely large tablets, such as some of the toilet cleaning and deodorizing products.
Tablet is the name of a weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington. You can view the latest issue and search their archives on the Web
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tablet."
| 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 |
TABLET | English | Telecom's advanced bill layout and exchange tables | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TabletSynonyms: lozenge (n), pad (n), pad of paper (n), pill (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Flatness | Plane; level; plate, platter, table, tablet, slab. |
Layer | Noun: layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter. |
Record | Monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement; obelisk, pillar, column, monolith; memorial; memento; (memory); testimonial, medal; commemoration; (celebration). |
Writing | Stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Let the name of Moses be stricken from every book and tablet. Stricken from every pylon and obelisk of Egypt (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: J.H. Ingraham; A.E. Southon) | |
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 | AZT, in tablet and capsule forms, is used in treating patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS. Azidothymidine is an antiviral drug which floods the cell with false DNA building blocks so that the virus cannot make copies of itself. When this happens, viral infection and replication is stopped. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Seen is the drug Reserpine in tablet form being counted out to fill a prescription in a pharmacy. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Memorial tablet in the Chapel at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, dedicated to the memory of officers and men of USS Trenton, USS Vandalia and USS Nipsic who lost their lives in the storm. Photographed circa the early 1900s or earlier. Credit: NAVY. |  | David Hoadley memorial tablet (Waterbury, Conn.). Perspective sketch elevation] / [by] C.G. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Unveils tablet in Lincoln's memory. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Lynch Commemorative Tablet. Galway, Ireland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tablet Rock, Gloucester, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Unveiling tablet commemorating first settelment [sic] of Mass. Bay Colony, Stage Fort Park, Gloucester, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Shenandoah Valley. Mr. McGahey pointing out the bronze tablet marking the site where arms were manufactured for the Confederacy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. Tablet in entrance foyer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Red tablet 4" by Maslov Yury Commentary: "Red tablet." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Stephen sat down at his right and the priest at the other side of the table closed his copy of The Tablet with an angry snap and stood up. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If the medication is well tolerated, increase the dose to a full tablet. (references) | |
These come in a variety of forms— tablet, patch, cream, and vaginal insert. (references) | ||
You can use the pill or tablet form, vaginal creams, vaginal ring insert, implants, or shots. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tablet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.41% of the time. "Tablet" is used about 340 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) | 99.41% | 338 | 15,594 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.59% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 340 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tablet": Actifed Tablet [OTC] ♦ Aprodine Tablet [OTC] ♦ Benadryl Decongestant Allergy Tablet [OTC] ♦ Bromfed Tablet [OTC] ♦ Carbiset Tablet ♦ Carbodec Tablet ♦ Carbodec TR Tablet ♦ Cenafed Plus Tablet [OTC] ♦ Contract tablet ♦ data tablet ♦ Dimetapp Tablet [OTC] ♦ effervescent tablet ♦ Genac Tablet [OTC] ♦ headache tablet ♦ Histatab Plus Tablet [OTC] ♦ memorial tablet ♦ sleeping tablet ♦ step tablet ♦ Sudafed Cold & Allergy Tablet [OTC] ♦ tablet chair ♦ tablet of chocolate ♦ tablet of soap ♦ Triaminic Allergy Tablet [OTC] ♦ Triaminic Cold Tablet [OTC] ♦ Triposed Tablet [OTC] ♦ votive tablet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tablet": tablet-arm, tablet-armed chair, tablet-called, tablet-initiated, tablet-lcd. | |
Ending with "tablet": wall-tablet. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "tablet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tabletë (lozenge, pastil, pastille, pill), pllakë (microgroove, record, slab, stage, tile), hapje (aperture, disclosure, dissection, inauguration, open, opening, orifice, rift, span, spreading, stretch, tabloid, troche, vent, venthole), bllok (bloc, block, book, complex, lump, pad, unit). (various references) | |
Arabic | لوح (board, panel, signal, to wave), مجموع من أوراق الكتابة, لوحة تذكارية, لوحة (doorplate, drawing, nameplate, painting, panel, picture, plaque, plate, portrait), لوح (blackboard, flag, flourish, gesture, sheet, slab, wave), قرص دواء (bolus), صفيحة (can, gill, hob, plate, platelet, scoop), رف (bracket, ledge, rack), دفتر (copybook, notebook, record, roster, stack). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | табелка (placard, plate), калъп (brick, shape), възпоминателна плоча, панакида, плочица (lamella), дъсчица (table). (various references) | |
Chinese | 牌 (cards, game pieces, plate, signboard), 片剂 (tablets, troche), 牓 (register), 平板 (flat). (various references) | |
Czech | tabulka (bar, chart, slab, Square, table), tabletka (pastille, pill), prášek (flour, mote, powder), poznámkový blok (scratch pad), pilulka (pellet, pill), kostka (bar, block, brick, cake, check, cobbles, cube, lump, tessera), destièka. (various references) | |
Danish | tablet (compressed good, data tablet, digitizer, graphics tablet, pressed good, prill), tabel (index, table, tabulation), plade (board, composite board, jacket, metal sheet, panel, plate, sheet, sheeting, slab, stave), pastil (croquette), komprimeret præparat (compressed good, pressed good). (various references) | |
Dutch | tafel (index, table, tabulation), tabel (index, table, tabulation). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tabelo (index, table, tabulation). (various references) | |
Faeroese | talva (board, index, plank, table, tabulation), yvirlit (account book, index, magazine, periodical, record, register, revue, table, tabulation), skrá (account book, index, record, register, table, tabulation). (various references) | |
Farsi | لوحه (Brede, Plaque, Plate, Signboard, Slab), لوح (Brede, Plate, Table), قرص (Brede, Cake, Disk, Pellet), ورقه (Brede, Form, Layer, Leaf, Leaflet, Paper, Sheet, Slab, Streak, Ticket, Writ), تخته (Board, Brede, Gob, Ledger, Lumber, Plank, Sheet), صفحه (Brede, Folio, Leaf, Page, Sheet), برلوح نوشتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | tabletti (bead, pellet). (various references) | |
French | tableau (table, tableau, tabulation), tablette, comprimé (tablets). (various references) | |
German | tablette (pill, tabloid), täfelchen. (various references) | |
Greek | πινακίδα (board, number plate, plate, sign, sign post, signpost), χάπι (pellet, pill, tabloid, troche), δισκίο (compressed good, nut, nut washer, pellet, pressed good, slice, wafer, washer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לוחית (panel, plaque), לוח (board, list, panel, plank, plate, schedule, sheet, slab, table), פנקס (journal, ledger, notebook, pad, pocket book, register), דפדפת (block, notebook, scratch pad), גליון (copy of newspaper, page, sheet), גלולה (lozenge, pellet, pill), טבלית (lozenge, pastille, tabloid), טבלה (board, chart, plaque, plate, plateau, slab, table). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tabletta (pellet, pill). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tablet. (various references) | |
Italian | tavoletta (bar, cake, slab, table, tabloid), pastiglia (drop, lining, lozenge, pad, pastil, pastille), compressa (compress, envelope). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 錠剤 (lozenge, pill). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | タブレット , じょうざい (cleansing of sins, donation, lozenge, monetary offering, pill). (various references) | |
Korean | 정제 (refining, tablets). (various references) | |
Manx | milljan (chocolate drop, sweet, sweetmeat, tabloid), lhiackag. (various references) | |
Papiamen | tabèl (index, table, tabulation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ablettay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pastilha (cake, lozenge, pastil, pastille, resume, tabloid, wafer), comprimido (cachet, compressed, pill, resume, squeezed, tabloid). (various references) | |
Romanian | tablã la scoalã, tãbliţã (slate), placã comemorativã (record), comprimat, bucatã (article, bar, brick, clod, cut, dollop, fragment, hunk, junk, length, morsel, nub, part, Pat, patch, piece, ribbon, shred, slice, snack, steak). (various references) | |
Russian | таблетка (lozenge, pastille, pill, tabloid, troche), блокнот (deskpad, jotter, note book, notepad, pad, scratch pad, worksheet, writing pad), планшет;таблетка;блокнот, дощечка (bred, nameplate, planch, table). (various references) | |
Scottish | clàr (a board, any smooth, board, lid). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tableta (troche), pločica (checker, lamina, tile), ploča (panel, planch, plate, record, sheet, shingle, slab). (various references) | |
Spanish | tableta (tabloid), pastilla (bar, cake, chip, drop, jujube, lozenge, microchip, pastil, pastille, piece, Square), lápida (gravestone, headstone, stone, tombstone), comprimido (compacted, compressed, packed, tabloid, zipped). (various references) | |
Swedish | tablett (lozenge, mat, pastille, pill, table mat, tablemat, tabloid), skrivblock (block, pad). (various references) | |
Thai | แผ่นจารึก, สมุดฉีก, ทำให้เป็นแผ่น (slab), ยาเม็ดแบน. (various references) | |
Turkish | tablet (table, tabloid), yazıt (epigraph, inscription, legend, scripture), plaka (licence plate, number plate, plaque, plate, slab), levha (pane, panel, plate, sheet, signboard, slab), kitabe (epigraph, epitaph, inscription, legend, panel, writing), kalıp (bar, cake, cast, dies, form, formwork, master, matrix, model, Mold, mould, Pat, pattern, print, shape, stamp, stencil, template, templet, timber), hap (pellet, pill, tabloid). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tabletka (r) (pill). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | таблетка (cake, lozenge, pastil, pastille, tabloid), блокнот (notebook, notepad, writing pad), дощечка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thẻ, thanh (bar, barie, exquisite), tấm (offal, plaque, sheet, slab), ngà để viết, bản (plate, table). (various references) | |
Welsh | tabled. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. imi, dub. (various references) |
| Akkadian | 3000 BCE-Modern | †uppu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | charta. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tablet": tableted, tableting, tabletop, tabletops, tablets, tabletted, tabletting. (additional references) | |
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"Tablet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atlet, tabet, tablea, tablete, tableu, tablle, tablt, tabmet, tallet, talot, tibbet, tubet, Tybalt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tablet" (pronounced ta"blut) |
| 4 | -b l u t | giblet, goblet. |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, appellate, articulate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, immaculate, inarticulate, desolate, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: battle. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-t-t" | |
-1 letter: betta, blate, bleat, latte, table. | |
-2 letters: abet, able, bale, bate, batt, beat, belt, beta, blae, blat, blet, late, tael, tale, tate, teal, teat, tela. | |
-3 letters: alb, ale, alt, ate, att, bal, bat, bel, bet, eat, eta, lab, lat, lea, let, tab, tae, tat, tea, tel, tet. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, al, at, ba, be, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-t-t" | |
+1 letter: abettal, battled, battler, battles, blatted, blatter, brattle, tablets, totable. | |
+2 letters: abettals, battlers, blatters, bractlet, brattled, brattles, butylate, cuttable, embattle, fittable, gettable, nettable, outbleat, rebuttal, seatbelt, stablest, statable, tableted, tabletop, tabulate, tastable, testable, tiltable, tithable, titrable, tubulate, wettable. | |
+3 letters: betrothal, biathlete, blastiest, blastment, blattered, bractlets, butylated, butylates, cabaletta, cobaltite, embattled, embattles, getatable, litterbag, outbleats, prebattle, rebuttals, rotatable, seatbelts, spottable, stateable, stylobate, tablature, tablemate, tableting, tabletops, tabletted, tabulated, tabulates, temptable, timetable, tractable, treatable, tribulate, trilobate, trustable, tubulated, tubulates, turntable, utterable. | |
| 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. | |
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