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tab(1) To move the cursor on a display screen or the print head on a printer to a specified column (the tab stop). Pressing the Tab key on a keyboard moves the screen cursor horizontally to the right. Pressing Shift-Tab moves it to the left. However, in the ASCII character set, there are codes for both horizontal and vertical tabs. See tab stop.
tab1 a small auxiliary aerofoil on the trailing edge of a rudder, aileron, or elevator, etc., to assist in the control of the aircraft in flight tab2 2. Slang a portion of a drug, esp LSD or ecstasy
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``The fact is most people have to pay for their own travel and they aren't staying in hotels that cost $700 or $800 a night and the taxpayers are picking up the tab. Think big--Target's picking up the tab for the coolest field trips ever. The sacrament of taxation apparently grants absolution to the Catholics who would still, in the end, be picking up the tab. |
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