tabletn.

Brit.

/ˈtablᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈtæblət/

Forms: Middle English tabblet, Middle English tabelet, Middle English tabelett, Middle English tabelit, Middle English tabulate, Middle English tabulet, Middle English tabulette, Middle English taplet (perhaps transmission error), Middle English–1500s tablett, Middle English–1500s tablette, Middle English– tablet, 1500s tabellett, 1500s tabillette, 1500s–1600s tabellet; Scottish pre-1700 tabblet, pre-1700 tabellat, pre-1700 tabillat, pre-1700 tabillet, pre-1700 tabillit, pre-1700 tablat, pre-1700 tablatt, pre-1700 tablett, pre-1700 tablit, pre-1700 tabulat, pre-1700 tabullattis (plural), pre-1700 taiblait, pre-1700 taiblat, pre-1700 taiblatt, pre-1700 taiblett, pre-1700 taiblit, pre-1700 tayblett, pre-1700 teblet, pre-1700 1700s– tablet, pre-1700 1900s– taiblet.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French tablet, tablete.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman tablet, tablett, tablette, tabelet, tabillet and Old French, Middle French tablete, Middle French, French tablette small slab or panel, smooth stiff sheet (originally made of wax-covered wood) for writing on (both c1200 or earlier in Anglo-Norman; in later use chiefly in plural (compare sense 1b)), small slab or panel bearing a painting or drawing (early 13th cent.), flat ornament made of precious metal or precious stone (a1376 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), table diamond (mid 15th cent. in tablette de diamant ; also diamant en tablette ), medicine in the form of a small disc or lozenge (1564), food in the form of a small disc or lozenge (1690), horizontal projecting course or moulding (1701) < table table n. + -ete , -ette -et suffix¹. Compare also Old Occitan, Occitan tauleta (late 12th–early 13th cent., originally in sense ‘castanet’), Catalan tauleta (first quarter of the 14th cent.), Spanish tableta (late 13th cent., originally denoting a small plate in an astrolabe; probably < French), Portuguese tabuleta (15th cent. as †taboletas , plural), also (in sense 3a) tablete (20th cent.; < French), Italian tavoletta (1294), and Middle Dutch tafelet, tafelette, taffelet, taflet (Dutch tafelet).With the forms in tabul- compare post-classical Latin tabulata thin board, plank, flooring (c800 in a British source), tabulatus tablet (a1100 in a British source), tabuletus flat ornament of precious metal (1376 in a French source), tabuletta , tablettum (golden) tablet (from c1400 in British sources). It is unclear whether the following quot. should be interpreted as showing the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word (in sense 2c):1394 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 202 Lego Domino Henrico de Percy..unum tablet de auro.

a. A smooth stiff sheet for writing on, usually one of two or more fastened together, originally made of clay or wax-covered wood, later of ivory, cardboard, etc.; a number of such sheets fastened together. Cf. table n. 2b.Also as the second element in compounds, as wax, writing tablet, etc.: see the first element.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > writing tablet > [noun]

wax-bredc960

tableOE

tabletc1300

writing tablea1451

writing tablet1601

codicil1640

tablette1711

pugillares1729

pugillaries1759

wax tablet1807

tabula1881

c1300 Evangelie (Dulwich Coll.) l. 412 in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1915) 30 573 (MED) He a tablet sone souhte Ant þer-on þe name of ion he wrouhte.

1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques ii. vi. 93 Hee would haue sentences giuen, not by counters and lots, but in Tablets, wherein euery Iudge should write his opinion.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 203 This Tablet lay vpon his Brest, wherein Our pleasure, his full Fortune, doth confine.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 239 They register..his acts..in Cædar Tablets, gum'd with Cynabre.

1719 T. Southerne Spartan Dame ii. i. 12 In these Tablets, you will find The Method I propose in my Design.

1755 E. F. Haywood Invisible Spy I. iii. 39 I went home and got my tablets clear'd from the impure contents of the above recited epistles.

1848 D'Rozario & Co.'s Lib in D. L. Richardson Lit. Chit-chat App. 30 Inkstand, a steel Pen with Holder, and an Ass-skin Tablet.

1860 J. H. Ingraham Throne of David xviii. 530 This tablet of Egyptian papyrus leaves, on which I write.

1901 E. Wilson Egyptian Lit. (rev. ed.) Introd. p. vi Most of these tablets are letters and dispatches from friendly powers in Syria.

1998 K. R. Nemeth-Nejat Daily Life Anc. Mesopotamia iv. 52 They were sometimes more expensive, such as hinged tablets with a beeswax overlay.

b. In plural: a notebook. Now rare.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper > notebook

bookOE

notebook1565

tablebook1582

manuscript book1593

notary1651

pocketbook1660

tablets1773

jotter1882

pencil tablet1882

ring book1891

carnet1897

telephone pad1900

notepad1922

copy1943

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iii. 59 (stage-direct.) Taking out his tablets, and perusing.

1780 F. Burney Jrnl. 29 Apr. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 77 Had I not kept memorandums in my Tablets, I could not possibly give any account of our proceedings.

1836 F. Marryat Japhet II. xvi. 153 I took out my tablets, and wrote down the address.

1863 St. James's Mag. 6 257 He has time to take out his tablets, and write in pencil a perfectly regular denunciation.

1902 T. W. H. Crosland Outlook Odes 38 I am inclined to like publishers, And to set them down in my tablets For Useful persons.

c. U.S. A writing pad.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper

paper-book1548

writing book1580

pad1857

writing block1861

tablet1867

writing tablet1874

writing pad1880

legal pad1882

block1908

1867 Cutter, Tower & Co. Catal. Stationery 99 (heading) Erasable tablets.

1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 349/2 Everything from a 400 page tablet of fair paper for 4 cents, to one of fine cream laid paper.

1934 Chain Store Age Jan. (Gen. Merchandise ed.) 57/2 The customer does not notice that there are three sheets less in a tablet.

1994 B. A. Staples Parallel Time vi. 92 Tommy kept his accounts in a thick composition tablet.

2. A small, flat, and comparatively thin piece of stone, metal, wood, ivory, or other hard material, artificially shaped for some purpose; a small slab.

a. A small slab, usually of stone or metal, bearing or intended to bear an inscription or carving; esp. one affixed to a wall as a memorial. Formerly also: †a flat surface cut in a rock for the same purpose (obsolete).

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society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > inscribed tablet, slab, or plate

tableOE

tabletc1350

titlea1382

tablature1578

aback1592

plate1668

breastplate1773

stela1776

stele1820

brass plate1836

palimpsest1876

plaque1922

c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 88 Ope two tablettes of ston..He hys [sc. them] wrot, Moyses by-tok.

1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 8838 A taplet of marbyl [he] held in hys honde.

?a1450 ( J. Lydgate Serpent of Division (McClean) (1911) 64 (MED) A litill tablet of golde grauen with Grekisse lettirs.

1599 R. Allott Wits Theater Little World f. 157 A litle tablet of gold, with these words ingrauen.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cclxi, in Poems (1878) IV. 166 His single Honour needs noe Fret of Names..To glimer ore the Tablet.

1709 M. Prior Carmen Seculare (new ed.) in Poems Several Occasions 147 When..The Pillar'd Marble, and the Tablet Brass, Mould'ring, drop the Victor's Praise.

1713 Hist. Royal Family 179 A tablet of Brass still remains affix'd to the Pillar..containing his Epitaph.

1765 R. Dodsley Leasowes in W. Shenstone Wks. (1777) II. 289 Winding forward down the valley, you pass beside a small root-house, where on a tablet are these lines.

1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains I. i. vii. 230 Four tablets have been cut in the rock.

1851 A. H. Layard Pop. Acct. Discov. Nineveh Introd. p. xiii The most important trilingual inscriptions hitherto discovered are those..in the rock tablets of Behistun.

1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room xi. 217 The tablet set up in 1780 to the Squire of the parish who relieved the poor.

1954 Times 13 Nov. 4/4 A stone tablet in memory of William Caxton, the first English printer, was unveiled outside Westminster Abbey yesterday.

1990 Texas Highways Mar. 22/3 The 16 angelic figures..hold objects of the church such as the chalice, the lamb, the open Bible, and the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.

b. A small slab or panel, usually of wood, bearing or intended to bear a painting or drawing. Cf. votive tablet n. at votive n. and adj. Compounds.In quot. 1782¹: a playing card.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > surface for painting or drawing

tablea1387

tablet1395

subjectile1845

excipient1855

support1892

1395 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 5 To the same Iohane my doughter I bequethe..a sacrynge belle, and alle of seluer; Also a tablet depeynt of tre.

1415 Inventory in Archaeologia (1918) 70 99 j Tablet de yvory quassato; j Tablet de plate argent.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 30 b Others, with Tablets and pictures use to represent men and women in some infamous and dishonest act.

1639 W. Cartwright Royall Slave v. iii. sig. G4 Who e're did burne, The Building to the honour of the Architect? Or breake the Tablet in the Painters prayse?

1695 J. Dryden tr. R. de Piles in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 83 Thro' all Greece, the young Gentlemen learn'd..to design upon Tablets of Boxen-wood.

1782 W. Cowper Progress of Error in Poems 170 The painted tablets, dealt and dealt again.

1782 V. Knox Ess. lxiii. 274 Apelles used to say, that Protogenes knew not when to take his hand from the tablet which he was painting.

1838 Archit. Mag. 5 208 It was customary to hang up in the ancient halls the portraits and arms of distinguished persons, with their names painted on a tablet.

1863 V. Penny Employments of Women 445 The New Haven Clock Company employ women to paint the glass tablets.

1901 School Rev. 9 432 One of the city papers has called it ‘Joliet's Pride’, and has made a button with the school picture on it, and a tablet also with the picture of the school.

1954 Dumbarton Oaks Papers 8 117 He therefore had an image of the Saint painted on a wooden tablet.

2007 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 7 June 26 A wood-framed beeswax tablet with a fading picture of Queen Elizabeth sprouting a plastic doll's arm.

c. A flat ornament of precious metal or precious stone; (in early use) esp. a piece of jewellery.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun]

ringOE

beec1009

languet1378

Collar of SS., S's, or Esses1406

tablet?a1425

fetterlock1463

serpent-tongue1488

triangle1529

flory1530

gorget1570

medal1578

tablet jewel1599

sprig1602

bracelet1624

medallion1658

croisette1688

torques1693

scarabaeus1775

crosslet1802

torque1834

teardrop1870

scarab1878

scaraboid1879

scarabaeoid1887

squash blossom1923

clip1937

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 153 Euerych of hem bereth a tablett of Iaspere or of Iuory or of cristall.

1464–5 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 490 (MED) My master payd to Arnold, goldsmythe, ffore a tablett of goold, iij li. xx d.

1504 Will of John Goodyear (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/14) f. 92 My tablet of golde that I was wonte to were abowte my nek.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxvi. 774 These great lords & braue lads which wil needs weare tablets at their neckes y^t is to say sumptuous Iewels for folke to gase at a great way off.

1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxxv. 22 And they came both men and women,..and brought bracelets, and earerings, and rings, & tablets, all iewels of gold.

a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 31 The tablets and the rings made for the eare.

1718 A. Pope tr. Isaiah iii, in tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiv. Observ. 1007 The Headbands, and the Tablets, and the Ear-rings, the Rings and Nose-jewels.

1811 R. Kerr Gen. Hist. & Coll. Voy. & Trav. I. ii. 321 The captain of an hundred men has a badge or tablet of silver.

1832 T. De Quincey Klosterheim i. 16 He hastily drew from his bosom, where it hung suspended from his neck, a large flat tablet of remarkably beautiful onyx.

1938 W. Asboe tr. in Folklore 49 388 Your upper lips are like a golden tablet; Your lower lips are like a turquois [sic] tablet.

2001 National Geographic July 29 Kublai lavished gifts upon them, not only jewels but also two gold tablets the size of a man's hand.

d. Originally: †a tile, esp. one used in roofing or flooring (obsolete). In later use: a plain plaque of pottery; spec. one forming the central part of a chimney piece (cf. block n. 3b).

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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > slab or tablet

tilea725

tableeOE

breda1000

slabc1290

slay-bred14..

tablet?1440

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > plaques

tablet1768

cartouchea1776

plateau1861

plaque1869

plaquette1881

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vi. l. 195 Now brode & thynne Tilette or tabulette [L. tabellas] of marbul stoon.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises f. 286 Which Diopter is made with two Pinules or square Tablets.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 395 A Bed made..on the Tablets upon the Tops of their Houses.

1768 J. Wedgwood Let. 6 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 68 I have lately had a Vision by night of some new Vases, Tablets &c with which Articles we shall certainly serve the whole World!

1775 J. Wedgwood Let. 14 Jan. in E. Meteyard Life (1866) II. 321 I..stand in need of your directions relative to the blocks & ovals to the Tablets.

1842 I. Williams Baptistery I. i. 3 Quaint tablets rang'd some antique hearth around, Blue Holland porcelain, all rudely wrought.

1875 E. Meteyard Wedgwood Handbk. Gloss. (at cited word) The more ordinary chimney~pieces had only a tablet and blocks... Occasionally the base of the columns had blocks also.

1934 Burlington Mag. Oct. p. xv/2 The [chimney] tablet is carved with festoons, and the frieze and jambs inlaid with festoons and pendants of husks in coloured marble.

1970 G. Savage Dict. Antiques 462/2 The year 1773 saw the first catalogue of ornamental wares, which included..tablets for chimney-pieces and furniture-mounts.

1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide to Heraldry x. 181 At Kedleston..heraldry is restricted to miniscule, and inaccurate, marble tablets in the chimney-pieces of Adam's entrance hall.

e. British Railways. A metal disc used as a token (token n. 7b), giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line. Cf. staff n.¹ 7m.

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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > system for use of single track > token or staff

train ticket1841

train staff1853

staff1885

staff ticket1885

tablet1885

token1936

1885 E. B. Ivatts Railway Managm. at Stations Gloss. 560 A train tablet is a modern substitute for working single lines, being, in fact, a combination of the train staff and the block signal system.

1897 W. E. Langdon Applic. Electr. Railway Working vi. 129 All tablets being in, the very first ring from the station..would..be equally serviceable for the purpose.

1921 Times 3 Feb. 12/5 The tablet from Newton to Abermule had the names of those stations inscribed on it.

1969 Railway Mag. Feb. 88 (caption) The single-line tablet for the section to Kingussie is being given by the signalman to the driver.

1994 Scotsman (Nexis) 24 Oct. In my younger days, single-line working on the railway was invariably controlled by a tablet carried by the train driver.

f. A rigid perforated card used in tablet weaving.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > other methods of weaving > equipment for

shawl-looma1792

weft fork1851

weft-hook1875

tablet1921

1921 M. Peach & H. Peach tr. H. Pralle Tablet Weaving 6 The earliest examples found of the little tablets for the weaving were of thin polished wood.

1964 H. Hodges Artifacts x. 137 The tablets were generally oval or rectangular with a hole, or a pair of holes, at each end.

1996 Burlington Mag. June 376/2 Over 350 tablets incorporating more than 1,400 twisted silk threads were used in the production of a single panel.

g. Computing. A flat, typically rectangular surface over which an object such as a stylus or finger may be moved in order to specify location, the coordinates of the object on the surface being transmitted electronically to position a cursor, arrow, etc., on a screen. More fully graphics tablet.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.

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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > control devices > tablet

tablet1964

digitizing tablet1974

touchpad1974

touch tablet1976

1964 Proc. AFIPS Conf. 26 i. 325 The displayed ‘ink’ is visualized from the oscilloscope display while hand-directing the stylus position on the tablet.

1971 U.S. Patent 3,591,718 1 A novel graphics tablet..to provide information about the stylus position on the tablet with improved accuracy.

1976 Physics Bull. Nov. 491/2 (advt.) Manual input devices such as light-pens, tablets and function keyboards.

2006 Which Digital Camera? Mar. 95/3 A graphics tablet can make life far easier as you can control the cursor using a pen stylus on a flat tablet.

a. A small, flat, or compressed piece of a solid substance, originally of rectangular form; spec. a measured quantity of a medicine or drug, compressed into a small disc or lozenge and designed to be swallowed whole; a pill.sleeping, vitamin, glucose tablet, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > tablet or lozenge

trochiskc1400

tablet?a1425

pastille1451

lozenge1530

table1580

troche1597

tessel1657

tabella1684

tablette1725

trochus1748

tabulate1834

lozenger1860

tabule1893

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 160^v (MED) The fourme of my tabulate [L. tabula mea] which I toke of Maister Stephan Arland: Recipe..conserue buglosse..turbith..sene..To þe same entensioun is diacasiafistula of Maister Tadei.

1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 86 Bringe it al into a masse, or lumpe, or into little tablettes, or into what fourme you will.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §970 It is yet in use, to wear little bladders of quicksilver, or tablets of arsenic, as preservatives against the plague.

1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. ii. 15 You may often use..these Tablets or Lozenges following.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Tablets, or solid Electuaries, are much the same with Lozenges.

1783 Sully's Domest. Physician 6 For all disorders occasioned by foulness of the stomach,... Take my cathartic tablet, composed of the following ingredients.

1801 Times 12 Aug. 3/4 (advt.) Pyrmont Tablets, a pleasant, convenient, and efficacious Medicine for the Piles.

1890 Lancet 1 Nov. 39 (Advt., B. W. & Co.) The Bicarbonate of Potash and Bicarbonate of Soda ‘Tablets’ or ‘Tabloids’ prove efficacious in dyspepsia.

1934 D. Thomas Let. 9 May (1987) 129 I have a little box of tablets with an instruction not to take, on any account, more than three.

1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 2 Feb. The hot chocolate..made from tablets of hard chocolate, was served steaming from a teapot.

2006 Daily Star (Nexis) 5 Apr. 4 For two years, he took five tablets every weekend.

b. A flat cake of soap. Cf. soap-tablet n. at soap n.¹ Compounds 2a(a).

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > soap > form of soap

soft soap?a1425

washing-ball1538

ball1575

tablet1582

musk ball1589

liquid soap1600

soap-ball1601

wash-ball1601

savonette1702

brick soap1753

bar-soap1824

bar1834

sand-ball1846

soap powder1865

leaf1882

soap leaf1909

soap flakes1926

shower gel1970

1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes i. xxix. 34 Giuing them euery mornyng one dragme of good Sope in tablettes [It. una dramma di saponea in tabelis] accordyng to our inuention.

1847 Times 26 Nov. 8/2 (advt.) Clarke's honey soap, 1s., in tablets.

1863 in C. Pierce Househ. Manager (end matter) (advt.) Each Tablet and Square is stamped ‘Brecknell's Skin Soap’.

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 34/1 Soaps..Californian Poppy—box of 3 tablets 3/3.

1953 Soviet Stud. 4 234 Toilet soap (medium-sized tablet).

2007 Africa News (Nexis) 7 Aug. In the bar soap segment, Bidco is also selling smaller tablets packed in sachets to complement the 80gm bar.

c. Originally and chiefly Scottish. A type of confectionery made in squares or tablets; (originally) a hard sweet, (later) a type of crumbly fudge. Also: a piece of this.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > fudge

tablet1736

penuche1872

chocolate fudge1892

fudge1896

1736 Mrs. McLintock Receipts for Cookery 35 (heading) To make Orange Tablets with the Grate.

1791 Mrs. Frazer Pract. of Cookery viii. 215 Pour your tablet upon it, and when it has stood some time, score it lightly with a knife into squares.

1850 Mrs. Dalgairns Practice of Cookery 347 Ginger tablet may be made in this way.

1897 Private Life of Queen xvii. 140 Among the favourites of the Queen..are..tablets, petits fours,..pralines, almond sweets.

1922 ‘R. West’ Judge i. ii. 56 Here's some taiblet for you, lassie.

1973 Times 13 Dec. 12/2 Tablet, for those who don't know, is a delicious, crumbly fudge that melts in your mouth—it's a Scottish speciality.

1990 Sunday Express 7 Jan. (Mag.) 40/3 Tablet—similar to fudge, but slightly harder, often flavoured with whisky.

d. In moulding: a piece of compacted powder of standard size, shape, and composition, requiring further moulding to give it its final shape. Cf. preform n.¹

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials in specific shape or form > [noun] > compressed powder

tablet1935

1935 C. Ellis Chem. Synthetic Resins II. lxviii. 1317 Tablets or preforms are made from the molding powder by applying high pressure..quickly and without heat.

1936 H. W. Rowell Technol. Plastics xx. 148 A ‘tablet’ is of the correct weight and density required and is made of suitable diameter and thickness to fit the mould. It is made in a stock size of die and is not preformed to the approximate shape of the moulding.

1974 Gloss. Packaging Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 9 Tablet, a compressed mass of moulding material of prescribed form and mass.

2005 Ceramic Industry (Nexis) 1 Nov. The output of a single press can range from a few hundred to 3000 or more tablets per minute.

†4. = tablet diamond n. at Compounds. Obsolete. rare.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > of specific type of cut

table diamond1470

tablet1519

tablet diamond1530

facet diamond1623

rose diamond1638

rose stone1659

rose1678

table stone1678

spread brilliant1727

rosette1861

briolette1865

trap-brilliant1875

1519 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/19) f. 42 Having an owche at the eend wherin is sett a fair table balas w^t iiij fair diamauntes wherof ij great poynted dyamaundes, oon tablet and oon losenge.

1519 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/19) f. 42 iiij diamauntes wherof ij poynted and ij tablettes.

†5. Glass-making. = table n. 25a. Obsolete. rare.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > other shapes or forms of glass

table1482

cleft1688

tablet1688

glass fibre1824

glass wool1879

angel hair1888

glass brick1909

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 385/2 A Table is a broad peece of Glass neere a yard, some more, square, it is also called a Tablet.

6. Architecture.

a. A raised or depressed panel in a wall, usually with a surrounding moulding; = table n. 21b.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > projecting moulding(s)

tablementa1400

tabling1410

projecture1563

rib1608

watering table1609

tableting1610

ledge1611

quarter-round1664

cornice1670

bolection1708

dress1726

tablet?1756

dressing1789

?1756 T. Osborne Eng. Archit. i. xxviii. 28/1 They have an arched top, and a tablet and cornice above; the tablet receives a cherubim's head.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 444 A Tablet is a projection, fixed in a wall, with one face parallel to the surface.

1911 W. H. Godfrey Hist. Archit. London vii. 214 The little tablet with broken pediment..is an example of a feature upon which much ingenuity was exercised.

1985 R. Chitham Classical Orders Archit. 148 Cartouche, a raised panel or tablet of elaborate shape and often having a convex surface.

b. Any horizontal projecting course or band of moulding, as a string course or cornice; = table n. 21a.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > string-course or -moulding

curstable1278

tablec1400

ledgement1435

wreath1677

cordon1706

tablette1723

belt1730

string1809

string-course1825

belt course1830

tablet1830

string-moulding1833

rope border1855

stringing course1861

racecourse1883

1830 W. Whewell Archit. Notes German Churches ii. 45 These intermediate vaulting shafts spring from the triforium tablet. [Note] The running tablet or cornice below the triforium.

1875 Lewis & Street in Encycl. Brit. II. 390/1 The crowning tablet or fillet [of an Egyptian pylon or portico] is quite plain and unornamented.

2004 J.-P. Kurtz Dict. Civil Engin. 779/2 Magistral line,..intersecting line of the outside facing and on top of the tablet or the coping.

7. Anatomy. = table n. 19.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > tabulate structure of

tablea1400

tablature1615

tablet1826

tabula1842

tabling1891

1826 W. Paley Nat. Theol. I. viii. 116 Some of the bones of the skull are composed of two tablets, the outer fibrous, having the edges curiously indented and..united by a dovetailed suture.

1839 Lancet 29 June 505/1 I found a spicula of bone projecting from the inner tablet of the skull.

1974 ‘E. McBain’ Mugger vii. 69 Frontal area of skull reveals marked depression of the tablet of bone which measures approximately 10 cm.

1999 T. C. Pritchard & K. D. Alloway Med. Neurosci. ii. 72/2 Normally, the dura is securely attached to the inner tablet of the skull and the underlying arachnoid.

8. A small portable computer in the form of a flat tablet, esp. one comprising a touchscreen display, operated via a stylus or fingertip rather than a keyboard or mouse. Cf. tablet computer n. at Compounds.

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2002 IEEE Spectrum Oct. 16/2 Perhaps closest in horsepower to the new Tablets is another emerging category: the ultrapersonal computer, a keyboard-based notebook... Eventually, the tablet and the ultrapersonal may morph into computing cousins.

2004 PC Mag. 6 Apr. 106/2 Reading news articles or e-mail at the kitchen table is easier with a tablet than with a regular notebook.

2013 N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Sept. 38/2 He smiled and swiped his tablet, turning a new page.

2014 Observer 23 Nov. (Mag.) 29/3 For under £300, you can buy an AR Parrot that will fly further and higher, and stream video footage by Wi-Fi to a smartphone or tablet.

Compounds

tablet book n. (originally) a set of writing tablets (now historical); (now U.S.) a writing pad.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > writing tablet > [noun] > set of

tablet book1611

diptych1622

triptych1732

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Táuola Also a Tablet-booke, a iornall booke, a paper iournall, or register for memorie of things.

1677 E. Ravenscroft Wrangling Lovers iii. i. 37 (stage direct.) Jacinta gives a Tablet book to Gusman, he opens it and reads.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature IV. 428 The Greeks and Romans, we know, used waxed tablet books.

1848 Times 11 Dec. 7/4 The female prisoner endeavoured to secrete a tablet book which she took from a box.

1902 Times 5 Apr. 9/1 The Museum possesses a large number of tablets of great literary and educational importance, among them considerable portions of a large lexicon in 40 tablet books.

1998 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 20 Apr. 1 John-Boy comes into the kitchen—carrying his tablet book in which he writes immortal prose.

† tablet check n. Obsolete a tablet or form on which details of telegraphic messages sent and received are systematically entered; (in extended use) any small piece of metal or the like on which something may be written for identification.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > telegraph form > check form

tablet check1876

1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 293 Every circuit..is supplied with a form called a Tablet check, upon which each message as it goes off is ticked.

1898 U.S. Patent 616,653 1/1 It is the object of the invention to provide such improvements in tablet-checks as will offer a maximum amount of space for the inscription that it may be desired to place thereon.

tablet computer n. Computing a computer in the form of a flat tablet; esp. one that accepts input through a stylus or a fingertip.

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1984 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 5 Apr. Shostak said battery-operated tablet computers will be available ‘within six months of this election’.

1991 Sky Mag. Dec. 73/2 The pen (some call it notepad or tablet computer) calls to mind a child's Etch-A-Sketch toy drawing screen.

2000 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. c1/5 Unlike today's hand-held computers, used largely as organizers, the tablet computer being developed by Microsoft will run the same Windows-based programs run by a desktop computer.

2005 M. M. Maheu et al. Mental Health Professional & New Technol. viii. 205 Wireless tablet computers, which are intermediate between PDAs and laptops, are quite powerful.

† tablet diamond n. Obsolete = table diamond n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > of specific type of cut

table diamond1470

tablet1519

tablet diamond1530

facet diamond1623

rose diamond1638

rose stone1659

rose1678

table stone1678

spread brilliant1727

rosette1861

briolette1865

trap-brilliant1875

1530 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/58) f. 218 Rynges..oon with a tablet dyamount.

1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 91 Two iewels curiouslie enchased with tablet Diamonds.

1646 Edinb. Test. LXI. f. 293, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Ane chyne of diamonds sett in gold..quhairin conteaned and sett fourscore tablet diamond and thriescore auchtene lesser tablet diamonds.

1849 G. L. Craik Romance of Peerage II. 241 Finally, on the Wednesday he [sc. Louis XII] gave her a great tablet diamond, with a great round pearl hanging by it.

tablet jewel n. rare (now historical) (probably) = sense 2c.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun]

ringOE

beec1009

languet1378

Collar of SS., S's, or Esses1406

tablet?a1425

fetterlock1463

serpent-tongue1488

triangle1529

flory1530

gorget1570

medal1578

tablet jewel1599

sprig1602

bracelet1624

medallion1658

croisette1688

torques1693

scarabaeus1775

crosslet1802

torque1834

teardrop1870

scarab1878

scaraboid1879

scarabaeoid1887

squash blossom1923

clip1937

1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 15 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. Chaines of Ieat, Amber, or such like, tablet Iewels, girdles [etc.].

2004 Oxf. Dict. National Biogr. (Electronic ed.) at Reynell family He left the earl of Essex a tablet jewel set with more than eighty diamonds.

tablet letter n. historical a letter written on a tablet (sense 1a).

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society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > [noun] > on tablet

albe1697

album1753

tablet writing1896

tablet letter1899

1899 T. Nicol Recent Archæol. & Bible v. 186 Seven of the tablet-letters are from the Governor of Jerusalem.

1911 Times 11 Sept. 3/7 The name for Cyprus known to us from the cuneiform clay tablet-letters,..was still in use amongst the Cypriotes at the beginning of the fourth century b.c.

2004 R. Fox & J. Fox Organizational Disc. iv. x. 78 The ruler of Erech..used a clay tablet letter to supplement the oral communication of the messenger.

tablet paper n. U.S. notepaper from a writing pad.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > other types of paper

writing paper1610

gilt paper1645

chancery-double1712

stamp paper1765

satin paper1776

cardstock1840

tablet paper1876

quadrille1884

P.O.P.1895

copy-paper1902

Silurian1942

sticky note1978

1876 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 27 July 1/2 Adjust the clip on your knees and number the pages of your tablet paper.

1908 Elem. School Teacher 9 97 Ruled sheet of tablet paper.

2006 Arkansas Democrat Gaz. (Nexis) 29 Jan. Her mother found some quotations Nona had jotted down in pencil on tablet paper and placed inside a box.

tablet PC n. Computing a tablet computer, esp. one that runs a version of the operating system of an ordinary PC.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.

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1990 PC Week 9 Apr. (heading) Go Corp. gets IBM's backing for ‘Tablet PC’. IBM backing startup company developing ‘slate style’ microcomputer.

2001 Pop. Sci. Apr. 48/1 Ever since Bill Gates started waving around a prototype of Microsoft's Tablet PC, consumers have been lusting after it.

2005 Stuff Aug. 127/1 As with all tablet PCs, the M2000 features a touchscreen, handwriting recognition and Wi-Fi wireless connectivity.

tablet tea n. fine-quality tea dust compressed into a tablet (cf. brick tea n.).

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the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > forms of dry tea

brick tea1789

tile-tea1858

tablet tea1890

tea-dust1897

tip1897

tea-brick1962

1890 Science 4 July 6/2 Two samples of compressed or tablet tea were presented to the Museum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Col. Alexander Moncrieff.

1907 Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport, Pa.) 12 Dec. 2/3 Tablet tea is made from the very best quality of the tea dust.

2003 L. Joliffe in C. M. Hall et al. Food Tourism vi. 127 Tablet tea is pill sized wafers of fine-quality tea, ground and formed into small tablets under pressure.

tablet weaving n. [after German Weben über Brettchen (1921 or earlier)] an early method of weaving, in which warp threads are passed through holes in a number of parallel tablets, which are then rotated to form sheds (shed n.¹ 6).

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > other methods of weaving

cross-weaving1843

Swedish work1882

satin weave1884

plain-weave1888

swivel-weaving1894

swivel-weft1894

mat1904

tabby weave1906

tablet weaving1921

basket weave1925

ikat1931

folk weave1938

pebble weave1941

1921 M. Peach & H. Peach tr. H. Pralle Tablet Weaving 6 Tablet weaving..is considered the origin of all weaving.

1950 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 16 130 The archaeological material..is then reviewed, with a special note on the curious technique of tablet-weaving.

2003 Handwoven Jan. 20/3 Otfried's ideas about tablet weaving are worth studying.

tablet writing n. historical the practice of writing on tablets; a piece of such writing.

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society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > [noun] > on tablet

albe1697

album1753

tablet writing1896

tablet letter1899

1896 H. V. Hilprecht tr. in Amer. Jrnl. Archeol. & Hist. Fine Arts 11 101 This tablet contains but three lines, in the ancient Sumerian language of that country:..‘Whosoever has distinguished himself at the plate of tablet-writing..shall..shine as the light.’

1905 J. Orr Probl. Old Test. Notes 525 Cuneiform tablet-writing probably in some measure continued after the settlement in Canaan.

1949 Sci. Monthly Mar. 218/1 On the basis of the native Metoro's readings of the tablets to Jaussen, Dr. Wolff has attempted to decipher some of the tablet writing.

1999 W. B. Chandler Anc. Future vi. 143 In the Babylonian tradition of West Asia, the noble art of tablet writing belonged to a select group identified as mari-anu.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	tablet
释义	tabletn. Brit. /ˈtablᵻt/, U.S. /ˈtæblət/ Forms: Middle English tabblet, Middle English tabelet, Middle English tabelett, Middle English tabelit, Middle English tabulate, Middle English tabulet, Middle English tabulette, Middle English taplet (perhaps transmission error), Middle English–1500s tablett, Middle English–1500s tablette, Middle English– tablet, 1500s tabellett, 1500s tabillette, 1500s–1600s tabellet; Scottish pre-1700 tabblet, pre-1700 tabellat, pre-1700 tabillat, pre-1700 tabillet, pre-1700 tabillit, pre-1700 tablat, pre-1700 tablatt, pre-1700 tablett, pre-1700 tablit, pre-1700 tabulat, pre-1700 tabullattis (plural), pre-1700 taiblait, pre-1700 taiblat, pre-1700 taiblatt, pre-1700 taiblett, pre-1700 taiblit, pre-1700 tayblett, pre-1700 teblet, pre-1700 1700s– tablet, pre-1700 1900s– taiblet. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French tablet, tablete. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman tablet, tablett, tablette, tabelet, tabillet and Old French, Middle French tablete, Middle French, French tablette small slab or panel, smooth stiff sheet (originally made of wax-covered wood) for writing on (both c1200 or earlier in Anglo-Norman; in later use chiefly in plural (compare sense 1b)), small slab or panel bearing a painting or drawing (early 13th cent.), flat ornament made of precious metal or precious stone (a1376 or earlier in Anglo-Norman), table diamond (mid 15th cent. in tablette de diamant ; also diamant en tablette ), medicine in the form of a small disc or lozenge (1564), food in the form of a small disc or lozenge (1690), horizontal projecting course or moulding (1701) < table table n. + -ete , -ette -et suffix¹. Compare also Old Occitan, Occitan tauleta (late 12th–early 13th cent., originally in sense ‘castanet’), Catalan tauleta (first quarter of the 14th cent.), Spanish tableta (late 13th cent., originally denoting a small plate in an astrolabe; probably < French), Portuguese tabuleta (15th cent. as †taboletas , plural), also (in sense 3a) tablete (20th cent.; < French), Italian tavoletta (1294), and Middle Dutch tafelet, tafelette, taffelet, taflet (Dutch tafelet).With the forms in tabul- compare post-classical Latin tabulata thin board, plank, flooring (c800 in a British source), tabulatus tablet (a1100 in a British source), tabuletus flat ornament of precious metal (1376 in a French source), tabuletta , tablettum (golden) tablet (from c1400 in British sources). It is unclear whether the following quot. should be interpreted as showing the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word (in sense 2c):1394 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 202 Lego Domino Henrico de Percy..unum tablet de auro. 1. a. A smooth stiff sheet for writing on, usually one of two or more fastened together, originally made of clay or wax-covered wood, later of ivory, cardboard, etc.; a number of such sheets fastened together. Cf. table n. 2b.Also as the second element in compounds, as wax, writing tablet, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > writing tablet > [noun] wax-bredc960 tableOE tabletc1300 writing tablea1451 writing tablet1601 codicil1640 tablette1711 pugillares1729 pugillaries1759 wax tablet1807 tabula1881 c1300 Evangelie (Dulwich Coll.) l. 412 in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1915) 30 573 (MED) He a tablet sone souhte Ant þer-on þe name of ion he wrouhte. 1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques ii. vi. 93 Hee would haue sentences giuen, not by counters and lots, but in Tablets, wherein euery Iudge should write his opinion. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 203 This Tablet lay vpon his Brest, wherein Our pleasure, his full Fortune, doth confine. View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 239 They register..his acts..in Cædar Tablets, gum'd with Cynabre. 1719 T. Southerne Spartan Dame ii. i. 12 In these Tablets, you will find The Method I propose in my Design. 1755 E. F. Haywood Invisible Spy I. iii. 39 I went home and got my tablets clear'd from the impure contents of the above recited epistles. 1848 D'Rozario & Co.'s Lib in D. L. Richardson Lit. Chit-chat App. 30 Inkstand, a steel Pen with Holder, and an Ass-skin Tablet. 1860 J. H. Ingraham Throne of David xviii. 530 This tablet of Egyptian papyrus leaves, on which I write. 1901 E. Wilson Egyptian Lit. (rev. ed.) Introd. p. vi Most of these tablets are letters and dispatches from friendly powers in Syria. 1998 K. R. Nemeth-Nejat Daily Life Anc. Mesopotamia iv. 52 They were sometimes more expensive, such as hinged tablets with a beeswax overlay. b. In plural: a notebook. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper > notebook bookOE notebook1565 tablebook1582 manuscript book1593 notary1651 pocketbook1660 tablets1773 jotter1882 pencil tablet1882 ring book1891 carnet1897 telephone pad1900 notepad1922 copy1943 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iii. 59 (stage-direct.) Taking out his tablets, and perusing. 1780 F. Burney Jrnl. 29 Apr. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 77 Had I not kept memorandums in my Tablets, I could not possibly give any account of our proceedings. 1836 F. Marryat Japhet II. xvi. 153 I took out my tablets, and wrote down the address. 1863 St. James's Mag. 6 257 He has time to take out his tablets, and write in pencil a perfectly regular denunciation. 1902 T. W. H. Crosland Outlook Odes 38 I am inclined to like publishers, And to set them down in my tablets For Useful persons. c. U.S. A writing pad. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper paper-book1548 writing book1580 pad1857 writing block1861 tablet1867 writing tablet1874 writing pad1880 legal pad1882 block1908 1867 Cutter, Tower & Co. Catal. Stationery 99 (heading) Erasable tablets. 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 349/2 Everything from a 400 page tablet of fair paper for 4 cents, to one of fine cream laid paper. 1934 Chain Store Age Jan. (Gen. Merchandise ed.) 57/2 The customer does not notice that there are three sheets less in a tablet. 1994 B. A. Staples Parallel Time vi. 92 Tommy kept his accounts in a thick composition tablet. 2. A small, flat, and comparatively thin piece of stone, metal, wood, ivory, or other hard material, artificially shaped for some purpose; a small slab. a. A small slab, usually of stone or metal, bearing or intended to bear an inscription or carving; esp. one affixed to a wall as a memorial. Formerly also: †a flat surface cut in a rock for the same purpose (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > inscribed tablet, slab, or plate tableOE tabletc1350 titlea1382 tablature1578 aback1592 plate1668 breastplate1773 stela1776 stele1820 brass plate1836 palimpsest1876 plaque1922 c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 88 Ope two tablettes of ston..He hys [sc. them] wrot, Moyses by-tok. 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 8838 A taplet of marbyl [he] held in hys honde. ?a1450 ( J. Lydgate Serpent of Division (McClean) (1911) 64 (MED) A litill tablet of golde grauen with Grekisse lettirs. 1599 R. Allott Wits Theater Little World f. 157 A litle tablet of gold, with these words ingrauen. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cclxi, in Poems (1878) IV. 166 His single Honour needs noe Fret of Names..To glimer ore the Tablet. 1709 M. Prior Carmen Seculare (new ed.) in Poems Several Occasions 147 When..The Pillar'd Marble, and the Tablet Brass, Mould'ring, drop the Victor's Praise. 1713 Hist. Royal Family 179 A tablet of Brass still remains affix'd to the Pillar..containing his Epitaph. 1765 R. Dodsley Leasowes in W. Shenstone Wks. (1777) II. 289 Winding forward down the valley, you pass beside a small root-house, where on a tablet are these lines. 1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains I. i. vii. 230 Four tablets have been cut in the rock. 1851 A. H. Layard Pop. Acct. Discov. Nineveh Introd. p. xiii The most important trilingual inscriptions hitherto discovered are those..in the rock tablets of Behistun. 1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room xi. 217 The tablet set up in 1780 to the Squire of the parish who relieved the poor. 1954 Times 13 Nov. 4/4 A stone tablet in memory of William Caxton, the first English printer, was unveiled outside Westminster Abbey yesterday. 1990 Texas Highways Mar. 22/3 The 16 angelic figures..hold objects of the church such as the chalice, the lamb, the open Bible, and the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. b. A small slab or panel, usually of wood, bearing or intended to bear a painting or drawing. Cf. votive tablet n. at votive n. and adj. Compounds.In quot. 1782¹: a playing card. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > surface for painting or drawing tablea1387 tablet1395 subjectile1845 excipient1855 support1892 1395 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 5 To the same Iohane my doughter I bequethe..a sacrynge belle, and alle of seluer; Also a tablet depeynt of tre. 1415 Inventory in Archaeologia (1918) 70 99 j Tablet de yvory quassato; j Tablet de plate argent. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 30 b Others, with Tablets and pictures use to represent men and women in some infamous and dishonest act. 1639 W. Cartwright Royall Slave v. iii. sig. G4 Who e're did burne, The Building to the honour of the Architect? Or breake the Tablet in the Painters prayse? 1695 J. Dryden tr. R. de Piles in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 83 Thro' all Greece, the young Gentlemen learn'd..to design upon Tablets of Boxen-wood. 1782 W. Cowper Progress of Error in Poems 170 The painted tablets, dealt and dealt again. 1782 V. Knox Ess. lxiii. 274 Apelles used to say, that Protogenes knew not when to take his hand from the tablet which he was painting. 1838 Archit. Mag. 5 208 It was customary to hang up in the ancient halls the portraits and arms of distinguished persons, with their names painted on a tablet. 1863 V. Penny Employments of Women 445 The New Haven Clock Company employ women to paint the glass tablets. 1901 School Rev. 9 432 One of the city papers has called it ‘Joliet's Pride’, and has made a button with the school picture on it, and a tablet also with the picture of the school. 1954 Dumbarton Oaks Papers 8 117 He therefore had an image of the Saint painted on a wooden tablet. 2007 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 7 June 26 A wood-framed beeswax tablet with a fading picture of Queen Elizabeth sprouting a plastic doll's arm. c. A flat ornament of precious metal or precious stone; (in early use) esp. a piece of jewellery. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] ringOE beec1009 languet1378 Collar of SS., S's, or Esses1406 tablet?a1425 fetterlock1463 serpent-tongue1488 triangle1529 flory1530 gorget1570 medal1578 tablet jewel1599 sprig1602 bracelet1624 medallion1658 croisette1688 torques1693 scarabaeus1775 crosslet1802 torque1834 teardrop1870 scarab1878 scaraboid1879 scarabaeoid1887 squash blossom1923 clip1937 ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 153 Euerych of hem bereth a tablett of Iaspere or of Iuory or of cristall. 1464–5 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 490 (MED) My master payd to Arnold, goldsmythe, ffore a tablett of goold, iij li. xx d. 1504 Will of John Goodyear (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/14) f. 92 My tablet of golde that I was wonte to were abowte my nek. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxvi. 774 These great lords & braue lads which wil needs weare tablets at their neckes y^t is to say sumptuous Iewels for folke to gase at a great way off. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxxv. 22 And they came both men and women,..and brought bracelets, and earerings, and rings, & tablets, all iewels of gold. View more context for this quotation a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 31 The tablets and the rings made for the eare. 1718 A. Pope tr. Isaiah iii, in tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiv. Observ. 1007 The Headbands, and the Tablets, and the Ear-rings, the Rings and Nose-jewels. 1811 R. Kerr Gen. Hist. & Coll. Voy. & Trav. I. ii. 321 The captain of an hundred men has a badge or tablet of silver. 1832 T. De Quincey Klosterheim i. 16 He hastily drew from his bosom, where it hung suspended from his neck, a large flat tablet of remarkably beautiful onyx. 1938 W. Asboe tr. in Folklore 49 388 Your upper lips are like a golden tablet; Your lower lips are like a turquois [sic] tablet. 2001 National Geographic July 29 Kublai lavished gifts upon them, not only jewels but also two gold tablets the size of a man's hand. d. Originally: †a tile, esp. one used in roofing or flooring (obsolete). In later use: a plain plaque of pottery; spec. one forming the central part of a chimney piece (cf. block n. 3b). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > slab or tablet tilea725 tableeOE breda1000 slabc1290 slay-bred14.. tablet?1440 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > plaques tablet1768 cartouchea1776 plateau1861 plaque1869 plaquette1881 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vi. l. 195 Now brode & thynne Tilette or tabulette [L. tabellas] of marbul stoon. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises f. 286 Which Diopter is made with two Pinules or square Tablets. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 395 A Bed made..on the Tablets upon the Tops of their Houses. 1768 J. Wedgwood Let. 6 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 68 I have lately had a Vision by night of some new Vases, Tablets &c with which Articles we shall certainly serve the whole World! 1775 J. Wedgwood Let. 14 Jan. in E. Meteyard Life (1866) II. 321 I..stand in need of your directions relative to the blocks & ovals to the Tablets. 1842 I. Williams Baptistery I. i. 3 Quaint tablets rang'd some antique hearth around, Blue Holland porcelain, all rudely wrought. 1875 E. Meteyard Wedgwood Handbk. Gloss. (at cited word) The more ordinary chimney~pieces had only a tablet and blocks... Occasionally the base of the columns had blocks also. 1934 Burlington Mag. Oct. p. xv/2 The [chimney] tablet is carved with festoons, and the frieze and jambs inlaid with festoons and pendants of husks in coloured marble. 1970 G. Savage Dict. Antiques 462/2 The year 1773 saw the first catalogue of ornamental wares, which included..tablets for chimney-pieces and furniture-mounts. 1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide to Heraldry x. 181 At Kedleston..heraldry is restricted to miniscule, and inaccurate, marble tablets in the chimney-pieces of Adam's entrance hall. e. British Railways. A metal disc used as a token (token n. 7b), giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line. Cf. staff n.¹ 7m. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > system for use of single track > token or staff train ticket1841 train staff1853 staff1885 staff ticket1885 tablet1885 token1936 1885 E. B. Ivatts Railway Managm. at Stations Gloss. 560 A train tablet is a modern substitute for working single lines, being, in fact, a combination of the train staff and the block signal system. 1897 W. E. Langdon Applic. Electr. Railway Working vi. 129 All tablets being in, the very first ring from the station..would..be equally serviceable for the purpose. 1921 Times 3 Feb. 12/5 The tablet from Newton to Abermule had the names of those stations inscribed on it. 1969 Railway Mag. Feb. 88 (caption) The single-line tablet for the section to Kingussie is being given by the signalman to the driver. 1994 Scotsman (Nexis) 24 Oct. In my younger days, single-line working on the railway was invariably controlled by a tablet carried by the train driver. f. A rigid perforated card used in tablet weaving. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > other methods of weaving > equipment for shawl-looma1792 weft fork1851 weft-hook1875 tablet1921 1921 M. Peach & H. Peach tr. H. Pralle Tablet Weaving 6 The earliest examples found of the little tablets for the weaving were of thin polished wood. 1964 H. Hodges Artifacts x. 137 The tablets were generally oval or rectangular with a hole, or a pair of holes, at each end. 1996 Burlington Mag. June 376/2 Over 350 tablets incorporating more than 1,400 twisted silk threads were used in the production of a single panel. g. Computing. A flat, typically rectangular surface over which an object such as a stylus or finger may be moved in order to specify location, the coordinates of the object on the surface being transmitted electronically to position a cursor, arrow, etc., on a screen. More fully graphics tablet.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > control devices > tablet tablet1964 digitizing tablet1974 touchpad1974 touch tablet1976 1964 Proc. AFIPS Conf. 26 i. 325 The displayed ‘ink’ is visualized from the oscilloscope display while hand-directing the stylus position on the tablet. 1971 U.S. Patent 3,591,718 1 A novel graphics tablet..to provide information about the stylus position on the tablet with improved accuracy. 1976 Physics Bull. Nov. 491/2 (advt.) Manual input devices such as light-pens, tablets and function keyboards. 2006 Which Digital Camera? Mar. 95/3 A graphics tablet can make life far easier as you can control the cursor using a pen stylus on a flat tablet. 3. a. A small, flat, or compressed piece of a solid substance, originally of rectangular form; spec. a measured quantity of a medicine or drug, compressed into a small disc or lozenge and designed to be swallowed whole; a pill.sleeping, vitamin, glucose tablet, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > tablet or lozenge trochiskc1400 tablet?a1425 pastille1451 lozenge1530 table1580 troche1597 tessel1657 tabella1684 tablette1725 trochus1748 tabulate1834 lozenger1860 tabule1893 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 160^v (MED) The fourme of my tabulate [L. tabula mea] which I toke of Maister Stephan Arland: Recipe..conserue buglosse..turbith..sene..To þe same entensioun is diacasiafistula of Maister Tadei. 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 86 Bringe it al into a masse, or lumpe, or into little tablettes, or into what fourme you will. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §970 It is yet in use, to wear little bladders of quicksilver, or tablets of arsenic, as preservatives against the plague. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. ii. 15 You may often use..these Tablets or Lozenges following. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Tablets, or solid Electuaries, are much the same with Lozenges. 1783 Sully's Domest. Physician 6 For all disorders occasioned by foulness of the stomach,... Take my cathartic tablet, composed of the following ingredients. 1801 Times 12 Aug. 3/4 (advt.) Pyrmont Tablets, a pleasant, convenient, and efficacious Medicine for the Piles. 1890 Lancet 1 Nov. 39 (Advt., B. W. & Co.) The Bicarbonate of Potash and Bicarbonate of Soda ‘Tablets’ or ‘Tabloids’ prove efficacious in dyspepsia. 1934 D. Thomas Let. 9 May (1987) 129 I have a little box of tablets with an instruction not to take, on any account, more than three. 1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 2 Feb. The hot chocolate..made from tablets of hard chocolate, was served steaming from a teapot. 2006 Daily Star (Nexis) 5 Apr. 4 For two years, he took five tablets every weekend. b. A flat cake of soap. Cf. soap-tablet n. at soap n.¹ Compounds 2a(a). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > soap > form of soap soft soap?a1425 washing-ball1538 ball1575 tablet1582 musk ball1589 liquid soap1600 soap-ball1601 wash-ball1601 savonette1702 brick soap1753 bar-soap1824 bar1834 sand-ball1846 soap powder1865 leaf1882 soap leaf1909 soap flakes1926 shower gel1970 1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes i. xxix. 34 Giuing them euery mornyng one dragme of good Sope in tablettes [It. una dramma di saponea in tabelis] accordyng to our inuention. 1847 Times 26 Nov. 8/2 (advt.) Clarke's honey soap, 1s., in tablets. 1863 in C. Pierce Househ. Manager (end matter) (advt.) Each Tablet and Square is stamped ‘Brecknell's Skin Soap’. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 34/1 Soaps..Californian Poppy—box of 3 tablets 3/3. 1953 Soviet Stud. 4 234 Toilet soap (medium-sized tablet). 2007 Africa News (Nexis) 7 Aug. In the bar soap segment, Bidco is also selling smaller tablets packed in sachets to complement the 80gm bar. c. Originally and chiefly Scottish. A type of confectionery made in squares or tablets; (originally) a hard sweet, (later) a type of crumbly fudge. Also: a piece of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > fudge tablet1736 penuche1872 chocolate fudge1892 fudge1896 1736 Mrs. McLintock Receipts for Cookery 35 (heading) To make Orange Tablets with the Grate. 1791 Mrs. Frazer Pract. of Cookery viii. 215 Pour your tablet upon it, and when it has stood some time, score it lightly with a knife into squares. 1850 Mrs. Dalgairns Practice of Cookery 347 Ginger tablet may be made in this way. 1897 Private Life of Queen xvii. 140 Among the favourites of the Queen..are..tablets, petits fours,..pralines, almond sweets. 1922 ‘R. West’ Judge i. ii. 56 Here's some taiblet for you, lassie. 1973 Times 13 Dec. 12/2 Tablet, for those who don't know, is a delicious, crumbly fudge that melts in your mouth—it's a Scottish speciality. 1990 Sunday Express 7 Jan. (Mag.) 40/3 Tablet—similar to fudge, but slightly harder, often flavoured with whisky. d. In moulding: a piece of compacted powder of standard size, shape, and composition, requiring further moulding to give it its final shape. Cf. preform n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials in specific shape or form > [noun] > compressed powder tablet1935 1935 C. Ellis Chem. Synthetic Resins II. lxviii. 1317 Tablets or preforms are made from the molding powder by applying high pressure..quickly and without heat. 1936 H. W. Rowell Technol. Plastics xx. 148 A ‘tablet’ is of the correct weight and density required and is made of suitable diameter and thickness to fit the mould. It is made in a stock size of die and is not preformed to the approximate shape of the moulding. 1974 Gloss. Packaging Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 9 Tablet, a compressed mass of moulding material of prescribed form and mass. 2005 Ceramic Industry (Nexis) 1 Nov. The output of a single press can range from a few hundred to 3000 or more tablets per minute. †4. = tablet diamond n. at Compounds. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > of specific type of cut table diamond1470 tablet1519 tablet diamond1530 facet diamond1623 rose diamond1638 rose stone1659 rose1678 table stone1678 spread brilliant1727 rosette1861 briolette1865 trap-brilliant1875 1519 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/19) f. 42 Having an owche at the eend wherin is sett a fair table balas w^t iiij fair diamauntes wherof ij great poynted dyamaundes, oon tablet and oon losenge. 1519 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/19) f. 42 iiij diamauntes wherof ij poynted and ij tablettes. †5. Glass-making. = table n. 25a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > other shapes or forms of glass table1482 cleft1688 tablet1688 glass fibre1824 glass wool1879 angel hair1888 glass brick1909 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 385/2 A Table is a broad peece of Glass neere a yard, some more, square, it is also called a Tablet. 6. Architecture. a. A raised or depressed panel in a wall, usually with a surrounding moulding; = table n. 21b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > projecting moulding(s) tablementa1400 tabling1410 projecture1563 rib1608 watering table1609 tableting1610 ledge1611 quarter-round1664 cornice1670 bolection1708 dress1726 tablet?1756 dressing1789 ?1756 T. Osborne Eng. Archit. i. xxviii. 28/1 They have an arched top, and a tablet and cornice above; the tablet receives a cherubim's head. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 444 A Tablet is a projection, fixed in a wall, with one face parallel to the surface. 1911 W. H. Godfrey Hist. Archit. London vii. 214 The little tablet with broken pediment..is an example of a feature upon which much ingenuity was exercised. 1985 R. Chitham Classical Orders Archit. 148 Cartouche, a raised panel or tablet of elaborate shape and often having a convex surface. b. Any horizontal projecting course or band of moulding, as a string course or cornice; = table n. 21a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > string-course or -moulding curstable1278 tablec1400 ledgement1435 wreath1677 cordon1706 tablette1723 belt1730 string1809 string-course1825 belt course1830 tablet1830 string-moulding1833 rope border1855 stringing course1861 racecourse1883 1830 W. Whewell Archit. Notes German Churches ii. 45 These intermediate vaulting shafts spring from the triforium tablet. [Note] The running tablet or cornice below the triforium. 1875 Lewis & Street in Encycl. Brit. II. 390/1 The crowning tablet or fillet [of an Egyptian pylon or portico] is quite plain and unornamented. 2004 J.-P. Kurtz Dict. Civil Engin. 779/2 Magistral line,..intersecting line of the outside facing and on top of the tablet or the coping. 7. Anatomy. = table n. 19. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > tabulate structure of tablea1400 tablature1615 tablet1826 tabula1842 tabling1891 1826 W. Paley Nat. Theol. I. viii. 116 Some of the bones of the skull are composed of two tablets, the outer fibrous, having the edges curiously indented and..united by a dovetailed suture. 1839 Lancet 29 June 505/1 I found a spicula of bone projecting from the inner tablet of the skull. 1974 ‘E. McBain’ Mugger vii. 69 Frontal area of skull reveals marked depression of the tablet of bone which measures approximately 10 cm. 1999 T. C. Pritchard & K. D. Alloway Med. Neurosci. ii. 72/2 Normally, the dura is securely attached to the inner tablet of the skull and the underlying arachnoid. 8. A small portable computer in the form of a flat tablet, esp. one comprising a touchscreen display, operated via a stylus or fingertip rather than a keyboard or mouse. Cf. tablet computer n. at Compounds. ΚΠ 2002 IEEE Spectrum Oct. 16/2 Perhaps closest in horsepower to the new Tablets is another emerging category: the ultrapersonal computer, a keyboard-based notebook... Eventually, the tablet and the ultrapersonal may morph into computing cousins. 2004 PC Mag. 6 Apr. 106/2 Reading news articles or e-mail at the kitchen table is easier with a tablet than with a regular notebook. 2013 N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Sept. 38/2 He smiled and swiped his tablet, turning a new page. 2014 Observer 23 Nov. (Mag.) 29/3 For under £300, you can buy an AR Parrot that will fly further and higher, and stream video footage by Wi-Fi to a smartphone or tablet. Compounds tablet book n. (originally) a set of writing tablets (now historical); (now U.S.) a writing pad. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > writing tablet > [noun] > set of tablet book1611 diptych1622 triptych1732 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Táuola Also a Tablet-booke, a iornall booke, a paper iournall, or register for memorie of things. 1677 E. Ravenscroft Wrangling Lovers iii. i. 37 (stage direct.) Jacinta gives a Tablet book to Gusman, he opens it and reads. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature IV. 428 The Greeks and Romans, we know, used waxed tablet books. 1848 Times 11 Dec. 7/4 The female prisoner endeavoured to secrete a tablet book which she took from a box. 1902 Times 5 Apr. 9/1 The Museum possesses a large number of tablets of great literary and educational importance, among them considerable portions of a large lexicon in 40 tablet books. 1998 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 20 Apr. 1 John-Boy comes into the kitchen—carrying his tablet book in which he writes immortal prose. † tablet check n. Obsolete a tablet or form on which details of telegraphic messages sent and received are systematically entered; (in extended use) any small piece of metal or the like on which something may be written for identification. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > telegraph form > check form tablet check1876 1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 293 Every circuit..is supplied with a form called a Tablet check, upon which each message as it goes off is ticked. 1898 U.S. Patent 616,653 1/1 It is the object of the invention to provide such improvements in tablet-checks as will offer a maximum amount of space for the inscription that it may be desired to place thereon. tablet computer n. Computing a computer in the form of a flat tablet; esp. one that accepts input through a stylus or a fingertip. ΚΠ 1984 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 5 Apr. Shostak said battery-operated tablet computers will be available ‘within six months of this election’. 1991 Sky Mag. Dec. 73/2 The pen (some call it notepad or tablet computer) calls to mind a child's Etch-A-Sketch toy drawing screen. 2000 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. c1/5 Unlike today's hand-held computers, used largely as organizers, the tablet computer being developed by Microsoft will run the same Windows-based programs run by a desktop computer. 2005 M. M. Maheu et al. Mental Health Professional & New Technol. viii. 205 Wireless tablet computers, which are intermediate between PDAs and laptops, are quite powerful. † tablet diamond n. Obsolete = table diamond n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun] > of specific type of cut table diamond1470 tablet1519 tablet diamond1530 facet diamond1623 rose diamond1638 rose stone1659 rose1678 table stone1678 spread brilliant1727 rosette1861 briolette1865 trap-brilliant1875 1530 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/58) f. 218 Rynges..oon with a tablet dyamount. 1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 91 Two iewels curiouslie enchased with tablet Diamonds. 1646 Edinb. Test. LXI. f. 293, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Ane chyne of diamonds sett in gold..quhairin conteaned and sett fourscore tablet diamond and thriescore auchtene lesser tablet diamonds. 1849 G. L. Craik Romance of Peerage II. 241 Finally, on the Wednesday he [sc. Louis XII] gave her a great tablet diamond, with a great round pearl hanging by it. tablet jewel n. rare (now historical) (probably) = sense 2c. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] ringOE beec1009 languet1378 Collar of SS., S's, or Esses1406 tablet?a1425 fetterlock1463 serpent-tongue1488 triangle1529 flory1530 gorget1570 medal1578 tablet jewel1599 sprig1602 bracelet1624 medallion1658 croisette1688 torques1693 scarabaeus1775 crosslet1802 torque1834 teardrop1870 scarab1878 scaraboid1879 scarabaeoid1887 squash blossom1923 clip1937 1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 15 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. Chaines of Ieat, Amber, or such like, tablet Iewels, girdles [etc.]. 2004 Oxf. Dict. National Biogr. (Electronic ed.) at Reynell family He left the earl of Essex a tablet jewel set with more than eighty diamonds. tablet letter n. historical a letter written on a tablet (sense 1a). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > [noun] > on tablet albe1697 album1753 tablet writing1896 tablet letter1899 1899 T. Nicol Recent Archæol. & Bible v. 186 Seven of the tablet-letters are from the Governor of Jerusalem. 1911 Times 11 Sept. 3/7 The name for Cyprus known to us from the cuneiform clay tablet-letters,..was still in use amongst the Cypriotes at the beginning of the fourth century b.c. 2004 R. Fox & J. Fox Organizational Disc. iv. x. 78 The ruler of Erech..used a clay tablet letter to supplement the oral communication of the messenger. tablet paper n. U.S. notepaper from a writing pad. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > other types of paper writing paper1610 gilt paper1645 chancery-double1712 stamp paper1765 satin paper1776 cardstock1840 tablet paper1876 quadrille1884 P.O.P.1895 copy-paper1902 Silurian1942 sticky note1978 1876 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 27 July 1/2 Adjust the clip on your knees and number the pages of your tablet paper. 1908 Elem. School Teacher 9 97 Ruled sheet of tablet paper. 2006 Arkansas Democrat Gaz. (Nexis) 29 Jan. Her mother found some quotations Nona had jotted down in pencil on tablet paper and placed inside a box. tablet PC n. Computing a tablet computer, esp. one that runs a version of the operating system of an ordinary PC.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom. ΚΠ 1990 PC Week 9 Apr. (heading) Go Corp. gets IBM's backing for ‘Tablet PC’. IBM backing startup company developing ‘slate style’ microcomputer. 2001 Pop. Sci. Apr. 48/1 Ever since Bill Gates started waving around a prototype of Microsoft's Tablet PC, consumers have been lusting after it. 2005 Stuff Aug. 127/1 As with all tablet PCs, the M2000 features a touchscreen, handwriting recognition and Wi-Fi wireless connectivity. tablet tea n. fine-quality tea dust compressed into a tablet (cf. brick tea n.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > forms of dry tea brick tea1789 tile-tea1858 tablet tea1890 tea-dust1897 tip1897 tea-brick1962 1890 Science 4 July 6/2 Two samples of compressed or tablet tea were presented to the Museum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Col. Alexander Moncrieff. 1907 Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport, Pa.) 12 Dec. 2/3 Tablet tea is made from the very best quality of the tea dust. 2003 L. Joliffe in C. M. Hall et al. Food Tourism vi. 127 Tablet tea is pill sized wafers of fine-quality tea, ground and formed into small tablets under pressure. tablet weaving n. [after German Weben über Brettchen (1921 or earlier)] an early method of weaving, in which warp threads are passed through holes in a number of parallel tablets, which are then rotated to form sheds (shed n.¹ 6). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > other methods of weaving cross-weaving1843 Swedish work1882 satin weave1884 plain-weave1888 swivel-weaving1894 swivel-weft1894 mat1904 tabby weave1906 tablet weaving1921 basket weave1925 ikat1931 folk weave1938 pebble weave1941 1921 M. Peach & H. Peach tr. H. Pralle Tablet Weaving 6 Tablet weaving..is considered the origin of all weaving. 1950 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 16 130 The archaeological material..is then reviewed, with a special note on the curious technique of tablet-weaving. 2003 Handwoven Jan. 20/3 Otfried's ideas about tablet weaving are worth studying. tablet writing n. historical the practice of writing on tablets; a piece of such writing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > writing on specific things > [noun] > on tablet albe1697 album1753 tablet writing1896 tablet letter1899 1896 H. V. Hilprecht tr. in Amer. Jrnl. Archeol. & Hist. Fine Arts 11 101 This tablet contains but three lines, in the ancient Sumerian language of that country:..‘Whosoever has distinguished himself at the plate of tablet-writing..shall..shine as the light.’ 1905 J. Orr Probl. Old Test. Notes 525 Cuneiform tablet-writing probably in some measure continued after the settlement in Canaan. 1949 Sci. Monthly Mar. 218/1 On the basis of the native Metoro's readings of the tablets to Jaussen, Dr. Wolff has attempted to decipher some of the tablet writing. 1999 W. B. Chandler Anc. Future vi. 143 In the Babylonian tradition of West Asia, the noble art of tablet writing belonged to a select group identified as mari-anu. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). tabletv. Brit. /ˈtablᵻt/, U.S. /ˈtæblət/ Inflections: Past tense and past participle tableted, tabletted; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: tablet n. Etymology: < tablet n. 1. Chiefly in passive. a. transitive. To write, carve, or mark as an inscription on a tablet. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] > inscribe (writing) inscribe1552 letter1655 tablet1847 entable1865 inscript1923 1847 F. A. Kemble Year of Consol. II. 40 A great number of tablets inserted in the wall testify to the fact of various royal and illustrious personages having made the same expedition... I shall surely not be tableted. 1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 152 And tableted above Him Still we read ‘Love taught the smith to paint’. 1925 V. F. Calverton Newer Spirit 121 In the days of early civilizations there were books written, or at least composed verbally and tableted or penned later. 1991 J. Wintle Romancing Vietnam 363 To my chagrin I see the name..heading the list of benefactors tableted on a wall. b. transitive. To provide with a tablet, esp. one bearing an inscription; to affix a tablet to. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > ornament with plaque or tablet tablet1864 society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > label, tag, or ticket [verb (transitive)] ticket1611 label1731 betag1763 relabel1834 mislabel1835 tablet1864 tag1883 sticker1912 flag1934 society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > inscribe [verb (transitive)] > furnish with inscribed tablet or pillar pillarize1827 tablet1864 1864 Reader 11 June 750 A large series of Irish and British fossils, about 17,000 specimens..named and tableted. 1883 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Apr. 698/2 About the square were numbers of..old houses, with elaborately adorned gables, crow-stepped,..and tableted. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 28 June 2/2 [The] chapel tableted with the names of some who have died in their country's service. 1903 J. L. Williams N.Y. Sketches iv. 130 Nearly all these [houses] are tableted by the patriotic ‘societies’, and made to feel their importance. 1951 Mt. Pleasant (Iowa) News 12 Jan. 2/1 Here is the Ft. Necessity National Battlefield site, properly tableted and directionized. 2. transitive. To make (something, now esp. a drug) into a tablet. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > types of shaping process worka1325 strike1485 sink1526 print1530 cut1600 to work out1600 strain1674 scribe1679 stamp1798 slab1868 squirt1881 tablet1891 extrude1913 fabricate1926 1891 Indiana (Pa.) County Gaz. 2 Dec. 1/6 We furnish them [sc. paper and envelopes] printed and tableted, either for pen or type-writer, at remarkably low rates. 1936 H. W. Rowell Technol. Plastics xx. 148 Tableting or preforming or pelleting a powder is generally done on automatic machines. 1963 Times 4 May 11/5 In an article in a medical journal some time ago describing the clinical trial of a drug, reference was made to the manufacturer who ‘tableted and distributed’ the drug. 1973 R. Parkes Guardians ii. 59 This heroin is comparable in quality to that being sniffed by U.S. troops in Vietnam and far superior to that being tableted for U.K. distribution. 2005 MarketWatch (Nexis) 19 Apr. We do produce medicine at various plants in England that comes to us to be tableted for the U.S. market. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300v.1847
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