TABLETとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).

発音

• enPR: tăbʹlət, IPA: /ˈtæblət/
• 韻: -æblət

名詞

tablet (plural tablets)

1. A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
   • 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:

     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 gratuitous system of Christian instruction which has covered the face of England and Wales with schools."

2. (religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
3. A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance in solid form.

   Coordinate term: capsule

   Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.

4. A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
   • 2005, Kenneth T. Henson, Writing for Publication: Road to Academic Advancement, →ISBN, page 80:

     Take a full-size writing tablet and follow these steps.

5. (computing) A graphics tablet.
6. (computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
7. (Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
8. (rail transport) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
   • 1939 November, “Overseas Railways: Locomotive Performance in New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:

     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.

派生語

派生した語

• → Scottish Gaelic: tablaid

参考

• caplet
• capsule

動詞

tablet (third-person singular simple present tablets, present participle tableting or tabletting, simple past and past participle tableted or tabletted)

1. (transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

参照

• “tablet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• Battle, batlet, battel, battle

語源

From Old French tablete; equivalent to table +‎ -et.

発音

• IPA: /ˈtab(ə)lɛt(ə)/, /ˈtaːb(ə)lɛt(ə)/

名詞

tablet (plural tablettes)

1. A tablet, especially an easily carried one for writing on.
2. (biblical) The Ten Commandments in physical form handed down from heaven.
3. A level surface for painting or working upon.
4. A piece of jewellery with a level portion.
5. (rare) A marble slab utilised as tiling.
6. (rare) A pill; a tablet for medication.

派生した語

• English: tablet
• Scots: taiblet

参照

• “tablet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.