noun
- The bill in a restaurant.
- usage: "he asked the waiter for the check"
- Sensationalist journalism.
- The key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation.
- A short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it.
- usage: "pull the tab to open the can"; "files with a red tab will be stored separately"; "the collar has a tab with a button hole"; "the filing cards were organized by cards having indexed tabs"
- A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet.
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.