tablet

A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.

Noun

A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
- Also mentioned is the Rev. T. Stock, who has a tablet in St John's church [Gloucester] and "who with Raikes established the four original Sunday schools in this parish ... in 1780. From this small beginning sprung that...
A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance in solid form.
- Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
Coordinate Terms: capsule
A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
- Take a full-size writing tablet and follow these steps. - 2005, Kenneth T. Henson, Writing for Publication: Road to Academic Advancement, →ISBN, page 80:
A graphics tablet.
A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
- The latter's loss of time between Manakau and Levin was due to the mishap of dropping the tablet at Ohau, which entailed an out-of-course stop of 3 min. to recover it. - 1939 November, “Overseas Railways: Locomotive...