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tabifies

tabifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tabify.

Meaning of tabify

Verb

tabify (third-person singular simple present tabifies, present participle tabifying, simple past and past participle tabified)

  1. (transitive) To reformat (text) by converting spaces into tab characters.
    • A common use of this program is to tabify text files which you've loaded in over the phone from a computer system (like UNIX) that tends to turn all tabs into spaces for 300 baud DEC writers.1985, Terry A. Ward, Applied programming techniques in C

Questions about tabifies

What is tabifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tabifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tabify.

Words near tabifies in the dictionary

  1. tabidly
  2. tabidness
  3. tabific
  4. tabification
  5. tabified
  6. tabifies
  7. tabify
  8. tabifying
  9. Tabigue
  10. tabilautide
  11. Tabilk

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