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tabbing

tabbing is the present participle and gerund of tab.

Meaning of tab

Verb (1)

tab (third-person singular simple present tabs, present participle tabbing, simple past and past participle tabbed)

  1. (transitive) To affix with tabs; to label.

Verb (2)

tab (third-person singular simple present tabs, present participle tabbing, simple past and past participle tabbed)

  1. To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.
    • You can prevent a control from getting the focus when the user is tabbing between controls by settings its IsTabStop property to False.2010, Chris Anderson, Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4, page 210

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Noun

tabbing (countable and uncountable, plural tabbings)

  1. Tabulation.
    • These juxtapositions of perspective are generally indicated typographically, by a verse being tabbed in or out from the one above it: such tabbings indicate breaks in time, space, or voice.2003, Stephen J. Hartnett, Incarceration Nation, page 23

Forms of tabbing

pluraltabbings

Phrases with tabbing

Questions about tabbing

What does tabbing mean?
Tabbing means tabulation.
What is tabbing the present participle and gerund of?
Tabbing is the present participle and gerund of tab.
What part of speech is tabbing?
Tabbing is a noun.
What is the plural of tabbing?
The plural of tabbing is tabbings.

Words near tabbing in the dictionary

  1. tabbiest
  2. Tabbimoble
  3. tabbiness
  4. tabbinet
  5. tabbinets
  6. tabbing
  7. tabbing out
  8. tabbings
  9. Tabbita
  10. tabboleh
  11. tabbouleh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tabbing (page history and authors); tab (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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