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Tab

nounnouncommon in dialogue

A key on a computer keyboard that typically inserts a tab or moves the input focus.

noun

  1. 1

    A key on a computer keyboard that typically inserts a tab or moves the input focus.

Etymology

From tab.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of tabAlternative letter-case form of tab (“student at Cambridge”).

Forms

plural
Tabs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).