Tablet

n.	1.	A small table or flat surface.
	2.	A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
	3.	Hence, a small picture; a miniature.
	4.	A kind of pocket memorandum book.
	5.	A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
	6.	(Pharm.) 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.

Noun	1.	tablet - a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription
	2.	tablet - a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge Synonyms: pad, pad of paper
	3.	tablet - a small flat compressed cake of some substance; "a tablet of soap"
	4.	tablet - a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet Synonyms: lozenge, pill, tab

TABLET - A query language. ["Human Factor Comparison of a Procedural and a Non-procedural Query Language", C. Welty et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 6(4):626-649 (Dec 1981)].

Domesday Book, account book, address book, adversaria, album, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, arch, barrow, blankbook, blotter, bolus, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, calendar, 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, obelisk, obituary, panel, pastille, patina, peel, pellet, pellicle, petty cashbook, 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

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