Tab

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Tab may refer to:

• The tab key, used to indent text to a preset horizontal position.
• In organizing, a short form of Chicago tab, a protruding piece of card or paper that provides an index mark in a paper or card file,
  • Tab (GUI) is a similar visual marker in computer applications.
• In hospitality and other contexts where payment is due, a synonym for the bill ("he picked up the tab").
• tab, short for the tabloid newspaper format, the size of the New York Daily News and other big city papers. A tabloid newspaper is roughly 11 inches wide and 14 inches high.
• Tab Ramos, former American soccer player.
• tab (comic strip), the size of a Sunday strip carried in a tabloid newspaper. Tab strips are often preferred by collectors of such strips as Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie.
• Tablature, a form of musical notation used particularly for guitars and other fretted instruments.
• Tab (archery), the small piece of protective covering to protect the fingers when practicing.
• Tab (soft drink), the first brand of diet soda produced by the Coca Cola company.
• Tabs (stage), in theatre, the term for the curtain at the front of the stage.
• Tab, a town in Somogy County, Hungary, near Lake Balaton.
• Tab, a small village in Warren County, Indiana, United States.
• In British English, a colloquialism for cigarette.
• Tab (slang), a half-affectionate derogatory term used by students of Oxford University to refer to students of the University of Cambridge
• Tab (album), an EP by Monster Magnet.
• Tâb, a board game played in Egypt and elsewhere.
• Tab (debating), the table of the results of a debating competition.
  • The program which produces the Tab

[edit] As Plural

• Tabs (Software), A 3D CAD software tool, orignally on the Acorn Archimedies computer.

[edit] See also

• TAB
• Taba