Tabbed vs Stabbed - What's the difference?
tabbed | stabbed |
Having a tab (protruding strip of material).
* 1907 , Joseph Meadon, ?Walter Lawrence Tobey, The Graphic Arts and Crafts Year Book
(computing, graphical user interface) Having tabs (the user interface element).
(tab)
(stab)
An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
A wound made by stabbing.
Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
(informal) An attempt.
Criticism.
(music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 To thrust in a stabbing motion.
To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger .
* (John Dryden)
To cause a sharp, painful sensation .
(figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
As verbs the difference between tabbed and stabbed
is that tabbed is (tab) while stabbed is (stab).As an adjective tabbed
is having a tab (protruding strip of material).tabbed
English
Adjective
(-)- 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.
- A tabbed browser can display a different webpage on each tab.
Verb
(head)stabbed
English
Verb
(head)stab
English
(wikipedia stab)Noun
(en noun)- I'll give this thankless task a stab .
- a horn stab
Derived terms
* have a stab at, take a stab at * stabbing * stabby * stab vest * stab in the dark * stab in the backVerb
(stabb)citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
- None shall dare / With shortened sword to stab in closer war.