tablet
noun/ˈtæblət/
Слово англійською: tablet
Переклад tablet українською: табле́тка, планше́т, сноді́йний за́сіб
Детальний опис
- (also Tablet PC™)a small computer that is easy to carry, with a large touch screen and usually without a physical keyboard
- The company has launched its latest 10-inch tablet.
- Consumers show a growing preference for tablets and smartphones over PCs and laptops.
- (especially British English) a small round solid piece of medicine that you swallow synonym pill
- Take two tablets with water before meals.
- I took the tablets prescribed by my doctor.
- The drug is now available in tablet and capsule form.
- an amount of a substance in a small, round, solid piece
- water purification tablets
- a flat piece of stone that has words written on it, especially one that has been fixed to a wall in memory of an important person or event synonym plaque
- The school has a memorial tablet engraved with the name of the founder.
- (figurative) We can be very flexible—our entry requirements are not set in tablets of stone (= they can be changed).
- tablet of soap (old-fashioned, formal) a piece of soap
- (North American English) a number of pieces of paper for writing or drawing on, that are fastened together at one edge see also graphics tablet
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French tablete, from a diminutive of Latin tabula ‘plank, tablet, list’.