tab

Meanings

• the bill in a restaurant
• 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
  • "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

Synonyms

check, chit, lozenge, pill, tab key, tablet, tabloid, yellow journalism