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Tab may refer to:

• In web browsers, tabs divide open web pages in one browser.
• The tab key, used to indent text to a preset horizontal position.
• In organizing, a short form of Chicago tab, a protruding piece of card or paper that provides an index mark in a paper or card file,
  • Tab (GUI) is a similar visual marker in computer applications.
• In hospitality and other contexts where payment is due, a synonym for the bill ("he picked up the tab").
• short for the tabloid newspaper format, the size of the New York Daily News and other big city papers. A tabloid newspaper is roughly 11 inches wide and 14 inches high.
  • The Tab, also known as Tabloid Newspapers Company, a chain of newspapers in suburban Boston, Massachusetts, now owned by Community Newspaper Company.
• Tab Ramos, former American soccer player.
• tab (comic strip), the size of a Sunday strip carried in a tabloid newspaper. Tab strips are often preferred by collectors of such strips as Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie.
• Tablature, a form of musical notation used particularly for guitars and other fretted instruments.
• Tab (archery), the small piece of protective covering to protect the fingers when practicing.
• Tab (soft drink), the first brand of diet soda produced by the Coca Cola company.
• Tabs (stage), in theatre, the term for the curtain at the front of the stage.
• Tab, Hungary, a town in Somogy County, Hungary, near Lake Balaton.
• Tab, Indiana, a small village in Warren County, Indiana, United States.
• In British English, a colloquialism for cigarette.
• Tab (slang), a half-affectionate derogatory term used by students of Oxford University to refer to students of the University of Cambridge
• Tab (album), an EP by Monster Magnet.
• Tâb, a board game played in Egypt and elsewhere.
• Tab (debating), the table of the results of a debating competition.
  • The program which produces the Tab

As Plural

• Tabs (Software), A 3D CAD software tool, orignally on the Acorn Archimedies computer.
• MDMA - slang for Ecstasy tablets.

See also

• TAB
• Taba

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TAB may refer to:

• The Angry Beavers, animated television series.
• Temporarily Able-Bodied a term originating from disability rights activists
• Totalizator Agency Board, a gambling agency (see also Tabcorp and Unitab)
• TAB is a Romanian amphibious armored personnel carrier. The Romanian army currently has the Transportorul Amfibiu Blindat B-33 ZIMBRU in service
• TAB is a method guitarists and bass guitarists use to write and read music. It is used to specify which strings to play where, but it fails to specify how long or what fingering as can sheetmusic. Still, many guitarists prefer TAB (short for tablature) over sheetmusic because of its ease in reading and writing music
• Tape-Automated Bonding (electronics)
• Totalisator Agency Board in Australia and New Zealand. Also the name given to state-run gambling organisations, some of which are now privatised. Once quasi-government entities, they have spearheaded the use of online betting in pubs and clubs
• Trey Anastasio's unnamed band from 1999-2004 was unofficially known as Trey Anastasio Band or TAB.
• Trey Anastasio Band, a different band that was renamed from its former name, 70 Volt Parade, in 2006.
• TAB is a short term of Tactical Air Base
• Tactical Advance to Battle British military acronym eg. "The Paratroopers TABed about 10 km to the bridge."
• TAB is an acronym for Think Against Bombs project.
• The Ant Bully, animated film released in 2006.
• TaB is a diet soft drink produced by Coca-Cola.

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Tab (disambiguation)

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Tâb is a board game played in several Arab countries, or a family of similar board games played in Northern Africa and South-western Asia, from Persia to West Africa and from Turkey to Somalia, where a variant called deleb is played.

The tâb game is played by two players on a board, often delineated at the ground. The board is 4 squares wide, and usually an odd number of squares long, usually from 7 to 15, but formerly up to 29 squares. Numbering the four rows 1, 2, 3 and 4, from the start one player has one white piece in each field of row 1, and the other a black piece in each field of row 4. The pieces may be stones or made from burnt clay. In Egypt, the pieces are referred to as kelb, meaning dog.

As in the Egyptian game senet, four sticks of a roughly semi-circular cross-section are used as dice. The flat sides are white, and the rounded sides are black. The value of a throw depends on the number of white sides showing, as indicated in the following table.

The approximate probabilities shown are based on the assumption that the black and white sides have equal probabilities, which typically is correct to within a few percent.

Throwing a tâb or four sticks showing the same side gives the right to an extra throw.

For each piece, the first move must be a tâb, converting the piece from a Christian to a Muslim and moving it one field ahead. Not till all the player's pieces have been converted is the player allowed to use tâbs for other purposes, but then the player is also allowed to save tâb throws for later use.

The pieces move as shown in the following picture, here shown for the player starting in row 1. Seen from the other player, it looks the same, meaning that the black and the white pieces move in the same direction through each of the rows. When a white piece gets to the end of row 3, white can choose to send the piece into row 4 or back to row 2. However, a given piece can only go into row 4 once; the next time it must go back to row 2, thereafter merely circulating through rows 2 and 3. Once in row 4, it cannot move any further as long as white has pieces left in row 1. Note that the white pieces once they have left row 1 never get back there.

A piece moving to a field occupied by one or more enemy pieces will knock those pieces off the board.

A piece moving to a field occupied by one or more friendly pieces is placed on top of those, and they move as one piece there after. If such a stack moves to a field where one of the pieces has been before, the stack is reduced to just one piece, the other pieces being removed from the board. However, the player is not required to utilize a throw leading to such move. A tâb throw can be used to break up a stack so that the pieces move individually again.

The game continues till one player has lost all pieces, whereby the other player wins.

As is clear from the rules, a game position is not given by the position of all pieces only, but also by their pre-history, substantially complicating the game, for better or for worse.

See also

• Daldøs
• Sáhkku

References

• P. Waage Jensen: Brik- og brætspil. ISBN 87-567-2755-0 (in Danish)