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tabbed

tabbed adjective: having a tab (protruding strip of material). Also the simple past and past participle of tab.

Adjective

tabbed (not comparable)

  1. Having 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. Having tabs (the user interface element).
    • A tabbed browser can display a different webpage on each tab.
    • 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

Also used as

tabbed is also the simple past and past participle of tab.

Origin of tabbed

From tab + -ed.

Words formed from tabbed

Phrases with tabbed

Questions about tabbed

What does tabbed mean?
Tabbed means having a tab (protruding strip of material).
What part of speech is tabbed?
Tabbed is an adjective.

Words near tabbed in the dictionary

  1. Tabatha
  2. tabaxir
  3. Tabb
  4. tabbability
  5. tabbable
  6. tabbed
  7. tabbed out
  8. tabber
  9. Tabberabbera
  10. tabbers
  11. Tabbert

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