Tablet

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tab=let

CIDE DICTIONARY

Tablet, n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.].

•  A small table or flat surface.  [1913 Webster]
•  A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, a small picture; a miniature.  [1913 Webster]
•  A kind of pocket memorandum book.  [1913 Webster]
•  A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.  [1913 Webster]
•  A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Tablet, n.
1 a small measured and compressed amount of a substance, esp. of a medicine or drug.
2 a small flat piece of soap etc.
3 a flat slab of stone or wood, esp. for display or an inscription.
4 Archit. = TABLE 8.
5 US a writing-pad.

Etymology

ME f. OF tablete f. Rmc, dimin. of L tabula TABLE

THESAURUS

Tablet

Domesday Book, account book, address book, adversaria, album, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, arch, barrow, blankbook, blotter, bolus, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, calendar, capsule, cashbook, catalog, cenotaph, classified catalog, coat, coating, collop, column, commonplace book, court calendar, covering, cromlech, cross, cup, cut, cyclolith, daybook, deal, desk calendar, diary, diptych, disk, docket, dolmen, drop, engagement book, feuille, film, flap, foil, fold, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, inscription, journal, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf, ledger, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, lozenge, marker, mausoleum, megalith, membrane, memento, memo book, memorandum book, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, memory book, menhir, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, notebook, obelisk, obituary, panel, pastille, patina, peel, pellet, pellicle, petty cashbook, pill, pillar, plait, plank, plaque, plaquette, plate, plating, ply, plywood, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, prize, pyramid, rasher, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rostral column, safety glass, scrapbook, scratch pad, scum, shaft, sheet, shrine, skin, slab, slat, slice, spiral notebook, stela, stone, stupa, table, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, triptych, troche, trophy, veneer, wafer, workbook, writing tablet, yearbook

ROGET THESAURUS

Tablet

Writing

N writing, chirography, stelography, cerography, penmanship, craftmanship, quill driving, typewriting, writing, manuscript, MS, literae scriptae, these presents, stroke of the pen, dash of the pen, coupe de plume, line, headline, pen and ink, letter, uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic, contraction, Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari, script, shorthand, stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy, secret writing, writing in cipher, cryptography, stenography, phonography, pasigraphy, Polygraphy, logography, copy, transcript, rescript, rough copy, fair copy, handwriting, signature, sign manual, autograph, monograph, holograph, hand, fist, calligraphy, good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand, cacography, griffonage, barbouillage, bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand, scribble, pattes de mouche, ill-formed letters, pothooks and hangers, stationery, pen, quill, goose quill, pencil, style, paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table, blackboard, ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well, typewriter, transcription, inscription, superscription, graphology, composition, authorship, cacoethes scribendi, graphoidea, graphomania, phrenoia, writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver, stenographer, typewriter, typist, writer for the press, writing, written, in writing, in black and white, under one's hand, uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical, currente calamo, pen in hand, audacter et sincere, le style est l'homme meme, nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill, scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons, that mighty instrument of little men, the pen became a clarion.

Layer

N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.

Flatness

N flatness, smoothness, plane, level, plate, platter, table, tablet, slab, flat, plane, even, flush, scutiform, discoid, level, flat as a pancake, flat as a fluke, flat as a flounder, flat as a board, flat as my hand.

Record

N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.