tablet

tablet
noun
  1. 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
  1. Middle English: from Old French tablete, from a diminutive of Latin tabula (see table)
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