tablet

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tab·let /ˈtæblɪt/ S3 noun [countableC]

1 MDMHa small round hard piece of medicine which you swallow 药片 SYN pill

She took a couple of headache tablets.

她吃了几片头痛药。

vitamin/sleeping/indigestion etc tablet 维生素片/安眠药片/消化片等

2 a small hard piece of a substance, especially one that dissolves in water 丸

water purification tablets

净水丸

3. AVa flat piece of stone or clay with words cut into it, for example above someone’s grave 〔刻有文字的〕匾，牌，碑

4 be written/set/cast in tablets of stone British EnglishBrE used to say that something does not change 不可更改，铁板钉钉

The programme should not be set in tablets of stone, but improved continuously.

此方案不应固定不变，而应不断改进。

5. American EnglishAmE a set of pieces of paper for writing on that are glued together at the top 便笺本，拍纸簿 SYN British English pad

n6. (also tablet computer) a computer that you can carry with you which has a touch screen and does not have a separate keyboard

n COLLOCATIONS

verbs

take a tablet (=swallow it)

Have you taken your tablets?

be on tablets spoken (=be taking tablets)

He's on tablets for his heart.

swallow a tablet

He took his own life by swallowing more than 500 tablets.

a doctor prescribes tablets (=tells someone to take them)

Dr Preston arrived and prescribed some pain-relieving tablets.

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + tablet

a sleeping tablet

Sleeping tablets can be addictive.

a headache/indigestion etc tablet

Do you want a headache tablet?

a paracetamol/quinine/iron etc tablet

She's on iron tablets for her anaemia.

a vitamin tablet

Are all these vitamin tablets really necessary?

phrases

in tablet form

Although this drug is available in tablet form it is often prescribed as a powder.

Examples from the Corpus

tablet• Another method is to use Boots Sterotabs, £1.39 for 48 tablets.• It first appears in Linear B tablets from Pylos.• vitamin C tablets• Three empty bottles of anti-depressant tablets were by his side.• Physiotherapy and anti-inflammatory tablets are helping to clear up tendonitis which forced him to return home early from Majorca earlier this month.• I was on tablets for two days and then taken off, just like that.• After she had swallowed the sleeping tablets, Carolyn slept for fourteen hours.

vitamin/sleeping/indigestion etc tablet• The threats broke Errol, and doctors prescribed Prozac for depression and sleeping tablets for insomnia.• Sister Aimee died in 1944, from an accidental overdose of sleeping tablets.• Tranquillisers, anti-depressants, or sleeping tablets should only be taken if they are really needed.• Eat smaller meals and try soda mints or indigestion tablets.• Carolyn sat on her bed and swallowed the sleeping tablets, washing each down with a mouthful of water.• The sleeping tablets hadn't worked.• They were sleeping tablets to help me sleep.

Origin tablet

(1300-1400) Old French tablete, from table

tab·let noun →n COLLOCATIONS1

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