tabletnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtæb.lət/us/ˈtæb.lət/tablet noun [ C ] (MEDICINE)
B1 a small, solid piece of medicine:
a sleeping tablet
a vitamin tablet
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- He'd taken a sleeping tablet the night before and still felt dopey .
- Take one tablet three times a day.
- The medicine is available in tablet form.
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Medicine in different forms
- anesthetic
- bolus
- counter
- dose
- drug
- hormone replacement therapy
- injection
- medicate
- medicinal
- meds
- ointment
- pharma
- placebo
- preparation
- radiotherapy
- restorative
- Rx
- tonic
- topical
- vial
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tablet noun [ C ] (BLOCK)
a thin, flat, often square piece of hard material such as wood, stone, or metal:
The poem was engraved on a tablet of stone.
UK a tablet of soap
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Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- lather
- outpouring
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- shower
- sight
- thousand
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tablet noun [ C ] (COMPUTER)
also tablet computer a small, flat computer that is controlled by touching the screen or by using a special pen
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Computer hardware
- 3-D printer
- blackberry
- brick
- bubblejet
- codec
- handheld
- joypad
- Macintosh
- micro
- microcomputer
- motherboard
- mouse
- ram
- shift key
- storage device
- toggle
- trackball
- underscore
- VDT
- word processor
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