tablet
(tæblət )
Word forms: tablets
1. countable noun [oft noun NOUN] B1+
A tablet is a small solid round mass of medicine which you swallow.
It's time for your tablets, dear.
It is never a good idea to take sleeping tablets regularly.
Synonyms: pill, capsule, pellet, tab
2. countable noun B2
A tablet is a small flat computer that you operate by touching the screen. [computing]
...a free guide to the best tablets on the market.
3. countable noun [oft noun NOUN]
Clay tablets or stone tablets are the flat pieces of clay or stone which people used to write on before paper was invented.
He also studied the ancient stone tablets from around the pyramids.
Synonyms: plaque, slab, panel, stone
4. tablets of stone uncountable noun
Stone is used in expressions such as set in stone and tablets of stone to suggest that an idea or rule is firm and fixed, and cannot be changed.
He is merely throwing the idea forward for discussion, it is not cast in stone.
Scientific opinions are not carved on tablets of stone; they change over the years.
Image of tablet
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Collocations:
salt tablet tablet computer tablet form take a tablet
He was cramping by this time, attempting to shake life into his legs and receiving salt tablets from his corner.
Times, Sunday Times
Many athletes add salt tablets to water or squash.
Times, Sunday Times
Before the game, the players were given salt tablets but the heat and dehydration was on your minds.
The Sun
Salt tablets were the norm of the day.
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The company required those who leased machines to also buy the salt or salt tablets processed through the machines from the defendant.
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According to recent figures, gaming accounts for more than 40 per cent of the time we spend using smartphone or tablet computer apps.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
If you are still struggling to get your head around your smartphone, tablet computer and apps, prepare to struggle a whole lot more.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Q resembles a small speaker with an attached tablet computer.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
All the better to carry her beloved tablet computer.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It comes in powder and tablet form and can be dissolved or snorted.
Times, Sunday Times
It can be taken orally in tablet form or as a liquid, and can be administered intravenously.
Times, Sunday Times
But it's debatable whether it works in tablet form.
The Sun
Adults can take the above in tablet form, and aspirin.
Times, Sunday Times
It still holds a trademark for the purple wrapper on chocolate in bar or tablet form.
The Sun
You can take your tablet to the park and browse a book; or in the loo; or in your armchair.
Times, Sunday Times
It offered to take her tablet back and cancel the account without any fees payable.
The Sun
Adherence means, in short, following the advice of medical experts: taking the tablets, doing the exercises, avoiding certain foods, turning up for check-ups.
Times, Sunday Times
It also takes the tablet's life to up to 14 hours between charges — double that of any rival.
Times, Sunday Times
Whoever's inner-voice told them this would make a good movie needs to start taking some tablets.
The Sun
Translations:
Chinese: 药片
Japanese: 錠剤
- right timing
- right to life
- right triangle
- rightward
- rightwards
- right-wing
- right-winger
- right-wing government
- right-wing party
- right-wing politician
- right-wing politics
- righty
- right you are
- rigid
- rigid adherence to
- rigid barrier
- rigid boundary
- rigid code
- rigid control
- rigid definition
- rigid diet
- rigid discipline
- rigid distinction
- rigid formula
- rigid hierarchy