noun
tablet
TAB-luht
noun
1
A small, solid, easy-to-swallow piece of medicine or a supplement.
"She took a paracetamol tablet for her headache."
"The vitamins come as chewable tablets."
2
A flat touchscreen computer that is larger than a phone but thinner and lighter than a laptop.
"He sketched the illustration on his tablet during the flight."
3
A flat slab of stone, clay, or wood carved or written on, or a bound pad of blank paper.
"Archaeologists uncovered a clay tablet covered in ancient script."
How to Use Tablet
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishDepending on context: a pill, a portable touchscreen computer, or a flat inscribed slab.
Common pairings
take a tablet
a graphics tablet
an ancient tablet
a stone tablet
Word Forms
tableted past tense, tabletted past tense, tablets plural, tablets singular
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Etymology
From Old French tablete, a small version of table, ultimately from Latin tabula, "board" or "plank."