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noun

• 1a small flap or strip of material attached to or projecting from something, used to hold, fasten, or manipulate it, or for identification and information.
• Military, British a marking on the collar distinguishing an officer of high rank or (formerly) a staff officer.
• North American term for ring pull.

• 2 Computing a second or further document or page that can be opened on a spreadsheet or web browser.

• 3 informal, chiefly North American a restaurant bill: the waiter brought three drinks and a new tab
• a tally of items ordered in a bar or restaurant:Bobby had told the barman to put everything on the tab

• 4 (tabs)short for tableau curtains.

• 5 Aeronautics a part of a control surface, typically hinged, that modifies the action or response of the surface.

• 6Northern English informal a cigarette.

verb (tabs, tabbing, tabbed)

• mark or identify with a projecting piece of material:he opened the book at a page tabbed by a cloth bookmark
• chiefly North American identify as being of a specified type or suitable for a specified position:he was tabbed by the President as the next Republican National Committee chairman