tabbed

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adjective

Having a tab (protruding strip of material).

“A tabbed browser can display a different webpage on each tab.”

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Meanings

adjectivetabbed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving a tab (protruding strip of material).

    Letter up a tabbed folder for each different catalog you intend to issue. As you collect matter for this catalog, put it in the one place — the folder devoted to that catalog.

    1907, Joseph Meadon, Walter Lawrence Tobey, The Graphic Arts and Crafts Year Book
  2. not comparablecomputingHaving tabs (the user interface element).

    A tabbed browser can display a different webpage on each tab.

    1 more example

    If you're a stranger to tabbed browsing, you're probably trapped in a somewhat old-fashioned Web surfing pattern. Perhaps you click on an interesting link, wait for that link to load, then press the Back button when you've finished reading that new page.

    2005, Cheah Chu Yeow, Firefox Secrets, SitePoint, →ISBN, page 26
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of tab

Origin

From tab + -ed.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

tabbed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tabbed

MLA

“tabbed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tabbed. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tabbed,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tabbed.

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