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TABS

"TABS" is a plural of: tab.

 

Specialty Definition: TABS

DomainDefinition

Fine Arts

Curtain made up of two curtain panels hung, with a center overlap, from a single batten. Each panel is lifted or tripped open by a diagonal drawline. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: TABS

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

TABS

EnglishTabloids(Pubblicazioni pubblicitarie formato ridotto)Abbreviation

TABS

ItalianTabloide(Pubblicazioni pubblicitarie formato ridotto)Abbreviation

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: TABS

English words defined with "TABS": keep tabs onmonitorride herd onsupervise. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TABS": bindery operator, BINDERY WORKER, boat puller, boot-liner makerHARDWARE ASSEMBLER, HULL AND DECK REMOVERinserter, INSPECTOR, TOYSjogger operatorLABORER, GENERAL, LAYBOY TENDERMOLD FINISHERsave generic, sheeter helper, STOPBOARD ASSEMBLER, suit makerTABBER, table workerupfitterWADER-BOOT-TOP ASSEMBLER, WELDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, ELECTROSLAG, whitespace. (references)

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Modern Usage: TABS

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Agent McGinnis I'm certain you're working under a supervisor who's keeping close tabs on this case (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TABS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Noah & the Animals Attendance Chart: Each Features Room for 30 Names for Recording Attendance or Memory Work. Tinned Top and Bottom, with Two Tabs for (reference)

  • Tabs Manual for the Temperament and Atypical Behavior Scale: Early Childhood Indicators of Developmental Dysfunction (reference)

  • Banjo Tab Book: 19 Old Time Clawhammer Tabs from the Great Bay Stomp (includes CD) (reference)

  • Wake Up, Buttercup: With Flaps to Lift and Tabs to Pull (reference)

  • The "Next Stage" Guitar Book - Learn How To Play Scale Patterns & Tabs Easily & Quickly! (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

High Tech

  • Avery Index Maker Clear Label Dividers With White Tabs For Inkjet Printers, 8-Tab, White (reference)

  • ALLSOP CD ID Tabs (Horizontal) (reference)

  • 11446 5-tab Index Maker Cleardividers with white Tabs for laser (reference)

  • Cables To Go 3Ft Ext SCSI HD68M/Cent50M Squeeze Tabs (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: TABS

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: TABS

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Manpower. Negro aircraft workers. Workers of various races contribute their skills to war industry. To safeguard American cities against all contingencies, these workers in an Eastern arsenal are sewing hand harness tabs on gas masks, which are being turn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TABS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Keep tabs on your young teen’s activities, and join with other parents in making common policies about teen alcohol use. Develop family rules about teen drinking and establish consequences. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TABS

"TABS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "TABS" is used about 132 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)90.91%12029,358
Noun (proper)6.06%8124,375
Lexical Verb (-s form)3.03%4175,879
                    Total100.00%132N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: TABS

Expressions using "TABS": keep tabs on keep tabs on smb.. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "TABS": trim-tabs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TABS

Language Translations for "TABS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

rideau l'italienne (tableau curtain). (various references)

   

German

  

Tabulatoren. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παρακολουθώ (attend, exhaust, follow, keep tabs on, monitor, observe, tag, tail after, watch). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

figyelemmel kísér vmit (to keep tabs on sg). (various references)

   

Italian

  

TABS (Tabloids(Pubblicazioni pubblicitarie formato ridotto)). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abstay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

vigiar (guard, have an eye on, keep, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, look to, mind, observe, oversee, scout, supervise, tend, wake, watch, watch over). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

orejas, lenguetas, etiquetas, cortina a la italiana. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

etiketter (labeler, labels). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

takip etmek (chase, come after, dog, follow, follow in smb.'s wake, follow up, give chase, hound, keep tabs on, prosecute, pursue, sleuth, track), kontrol etmek (audit, check, check out, check up, check up on, choke back, choke down, command, control, explore, govern, inspect, keep tabs on, see over, superintend, test), izlemek (chase, come on, dog, eye, follow, follow in smb.'s wake, follow up, give chase, go by, hound, keep tabs on, monitor, monitorize, observe, pursue, shadow, supervene, tail, trace, track, trail, watch), gözaltında bulundurmak (keep tabs on). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стежити (attend, espy, eye, investigate, keep tabs on, observe, outwatch, oversee, see to, tend, track, watch), вести облік (keep tabs on). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: TABS

Derivations

Words ending with "TABS": backstabs, stabs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"TABS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atbc, atbs, kabs, Ntaba, tabbo, tabe, tabes, tabk, tabo, tabt, tabus, tacs, taeb, tajs, tatb, taub, taubes, taus, tavs, tba, tbc, tbd, tbs, tebas, tebs, thab, thabe, tibc, tibs, tiby, tibz, tjab, toab, tobs, torbs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "TABS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "TABS" (pronounced ta"bz)
4t a" b zstabs.
3-a" b zabs, cabs, crabs, drabs, grabs, jabs, labs, prefabs, scabs, slabs.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: TABS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bast, bats, stab.

Words within the letters "a-b-s-t"

-1 letter: abs, bas, bat, sab, sat, tab, tas.

-2 letters: ab, as, at, ba, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-s-t"
 

+1 letter: abets, abuts, bahts, baits, baste, basts, bates, baths, batts, beast, beats, betas, blast, blats, boast, boats, botas, brats, sabot, stabs, tabes, tabus, tsuba, tubas.

 

+2 letters: abates, abatis, abbots, ablest, aborts, absent, ambits, barest, basalt, basest, basket, basset, basted, baster, bastes, bathes, bathos, batiks, batons, beasts, beauts, bettas, biotas, blasts, blasty, bleats, bloats, boarts, boasts, bracts, brants, breast, bypast, habits, jabots, oblast, rabats, sabbat, sabots, sacbut, sagbut, stable, stably, tabbis, tabers, tablas, tables, taboos, tabors, tabuns, tibias.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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