tablet

Speech parts

1. tablet - Noun

2. tablet - Verb

Meaning

A small table or flat surface.

A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

Hence, a small picture; a miniature.

A kind of pocket memorandum book.

A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pad lozenge dose plaque capsule pill slab troche pad of paper memorial blackberry bolus cairn ouija stone
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Antonyms

alkali sweet poison virus

Hypernyms

paper bar dose cake slab dosage

Hyponyms

abacus bolus capsule slate notepad sleeping pill

Phrases with the word

writing tablet chewing gum tablet fluid tablet embryo-expelling tablet fetus-eliminating tablet pregnancy termination tablet

Anagrams

batlet battel battle

Examples

Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air. Bill Gates

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects. David Pogue

The tablet market has only succeeded as a niche market over the years and it was hoped Apple would dream up some new paradigm to change all that. From what I've seen and heard, this won't be it. John C. Dvorak

A tablet without software is just an inconveniently fragile and poorly reflective mirror, so the thing I want to be sure of when I buy a device is that I don't have to implicitly trust one corporation's judgment about what software I should and shouldn't be using. Cory Doctorow

Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do. Douglas Rushkoff

And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time. LeVar Burton

Close letter words and terms

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