TABLETとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).

発音

• enPR: tăbʹlət, IPA^(key): /ˈtæblət/
• 韻: -æblət

名詞

tablet (複数形 tablets)

1. A slab of clay used for inscription.
2. (religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.
4. A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.

   Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.

5. 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.

6. (computing) A graphics tablet.
7. (computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
8. (Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
9. (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

• tab (drug)
• wax tablet

派生した語

• → Scottish Gaelic: tablaid

参考

• caplet
• capsule

動詞

tablet (三人称単数 現在形 tablets, 現在分詞 tableting または tabletting, 過去形および過去分詞形 tableted または 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