tablet

From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).

• enPR: tăbʹlət, IPA^(key): /ˈtæblət/
• Rhymes: -ət

tablet (plural tablets)

1. A slab of clay used for inscription.
2. (religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.
3. A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.

   Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.

4. A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
   • 2005, Kenneth T. Henson, Writing for Publication: Road to Academic Advancement, →ISBN, page 80:

     Take a full-size writing tablet and follow these steps.

5. (computing) A graphics tablet.
6. (computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
7. (Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs.
8. (rail transport) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.

• caplet
• capsule

tablet (third-person singular simple present tablets, present participle tableting or tabletting, simple past and past participle tableted or tabletted)

1. (transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

• “tablet” (US) / “tablet” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

• Battle, batlet, battel, battle

Borrowed from Middle French tablette.

• IPA^(key): /taːˈblɛt/
• Hyphenation: ta‧blet
• Rhymes: -ɛt

tablet f or n (plural tabletten, diminutive tabletje n)

1. tablet, pill (piece of medicine in solid state)
2. flat, rectangular piece or slab

• bruistablet
• kleitablet
• zuigtablet

Borrowed from English tablet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.blət/
• Hyphenation: ta‧blet

tablet m (plural tablets)

1. tablet computer

• tabelett, tabelet, tabblet, tabulet, tabulette

From Old French tablete; equivalent to table +‎ -et.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtab(ə)lət(ə)/, /ˈtaːb(ə)lət(ə)/

tablet (plural tablettes)

1. A tablet, especially an easily carried one for writing on.
2. (biblical) The Ten Commandments in physical form handed down from heaven.
3. A level surface for painting or working upon.
4. A piece of jewellery with a level portion present.
5. (rare) A marble slab utilised as tiling.
6. (rare) A tablet or pill for medication.

• English: tablet
• Scots: taiblet

• “tablet (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.

tablet m (plural tablets)

1. (computing) tablet computer (a type of portable computer)

tablet m or f (plural tablets)

1. (computing) tablet

• tableta