tablet

The word “tablet” means a small, solid, easy-to-swallow piece of medicine or a supplement. In plain terms, depending on context: a pill, a portable touchscreen computer, or a flat inscribed slab.

“Tablet” is pronounced TAB-luht (/ˈtæblət/ in IPA).

Here is “tablet” used in a sentence: “She took a paracetamol tablet for her headache.”

“Tablet” is a noun.

The word “tablet” comes from Latin. From Old French tablete, a small version of table, ultimately from Latin tabula, "board" or "plank.".

“Tablet” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the B1 level.

“Tablet” has 3 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: a small, solid, easy-to-swallow piece of medicine or a supplement.

"Pill" is the everyday umbrella word for any small, solid piece of medicine you swallow. A tablet is medicine compressed into a small, solid, easy-to-swallow form, while a capsule holds the medicine inside a soluble shell. So tablets and capsules are both pills; they differ in how the medicine is packaged.

Yes. A tablet is a flat touchscreen computer larger than a phone but thinner and lighter than a laptop, and the iPad is Apple's brand of tablet. People sometimes say "iPad" loosely for any tablet, but it is one brand among many.

A tablet is a flat touchscreen computer controlled mainly by touch, thinner and lighter than a laptop. A laptop folds shut around a built-in physical keyboard and typically runs full desktop software. Modern "2-in-1" devices blur the line by pairing a tablet screen with a detachable keyboard.

Long before touchscreens, a tablet was a flat slab of stone, clay, or wood that was carved or written on — the format in which many early documents survive — or a bound pad of blank paper. The modern touchscreen device took the name from that flat, slate-like shape.