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Tablet: noun - a flat slab of stone, metal, or
wood carrying an inscription, carving, or picture; a slab used as a roofing or
flooring tile; a rigid card used in tablet-weaving; in Computing - a flat rectangular
surface on which a stylus or finger may be moved to position a cursor on a screen;
a flat ornament of precious metal or jewellery; a small flat or compressed
piece of a solid substance; a portion of medicine or drug compressed into a
solid flattish shape, intended to be swallowed whole; a cake of soap.
'Keep taking the tablets!'
'Porky Smellworthy spent
the whole afternoon carving a tablet of soap into a miniature model of the
Venus de Milo.'
'Moses descended the
mountain, carrying stone tablets bearing the dozens of laws he'd been
instructed to chisel into the rock, and, falling flat on his face, smashed most
of them to smithereens.'
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