Tab Explained
In Wikipedia, colons (:) are used to tab.
Tab or tabs may refer to:
- Tabulation computing evolved from a mechanical basis using cards gradually between the 1940s and 1990s to a completely electronic basis. The card based systems and components such as sorters and card readers and punches were called "Tab".
- The tab key, on a computer keyboard, automates indenting text to a preset position
- Tab (archery), the small piece of protective covering to protect the fingers when practicing
- Tab (debating), the table of the results of a debating competition
- Tab (soft drink), a beverage produced by the Coca-Cola company
- Tab (album), by Monster Magnet
- Tabs (stage), in theatre, the term for the curtain at the front of the stage
- Tablature, a form of musical notation used particularly for guitars and other fretted instruments
- Tâb, a board game played in Egypt and elsewhere
- Chicago tab, in organizing, a protruding piece of a planar surface that provides an index mark
- Tab Ramos, an American soccer player
- Tab Hunter, an American actor and musician
- TABS, Thermal Activated Building System.
In software
- Tab (GUI), a visual marker in a computer application, similar to Chicago tabs (above)
- "Tabbed browsing", in a web browser, tabs divide open pages displayed in a single window
- Tabs (software), a 3D CAD tool, originally for Acorn Archimedes computers
In publishing
In slang
- Bill (payment), informally
- In British English, a colloquialism for cigarette
- In British Military English, a colloquialism for a forced march
- In East Midlands English, a slang term for ear
- "Tabs", abbreviation for "tablets", slang for the drug MDMA, or Ecstasy
- In British English, a term referring to Cambridge students, used primordially by members of Oxford University
Places
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