a flat slab of stone, clay, or wood, used especially for an inscription (石、黏土、木头制的)刻写板 ■a small disc or cylinder of a compressed solid substance, typically a measured amount of a medicine or drug; a pill (多指药品的)小块;药片,片剂 ■(Brit.)a small flat piece of soap (英)肥皂片 ■(Architecture). another term for table (in sense 3) (建筑)。 同 table (义项 3) ■(N. Amer.)a writing pad (北美)写字板 ■a kind of token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line (单线)路牌
语源
Middle English: from Old French tablete, from a diminutive of Latin tabula (see table)