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Synonyms for tablet

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for tablet

a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription

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a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

a small flat compressed cake of some substance

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a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

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The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble table, where there were three tablets, containing an account of the means by which the castle might be disenchanted.
"One should only eat to sustain life," replied the Shaggy Man, "and that tablet is equal to a peck of other food."
For supper the Shaggy Man ate one of his tablets, but Ojo stuck to his bread and cheese as the most satisfying food.
But all this is hopeless--at least for the present!"--he added, raising his tablets again to the light, and reading aloud; "Oct.
it comes!" exclaimed the Doctor, fumbling, by a sort of instinct, for his tablets, while he fairly tottered on his feet under the powerful efforts he made to maintain his ground.
That, carnivorous," he continued, glancing his eye at the open page of his tablets; "this, granivorous; habits, fierce, dangerous; habits, patient, abstemious; ears, inconspicuous; ears, elongated; horns, diverging, &c., horns, none!"
The keen-eyed girl, however, saw that as she proceeded, the important leaf was torn from the tablets, in a manner which showed that their owner had got rid of his delusion at the same instant.
'Ah!' said the count, drawing out the tablets again, 'ver good --fine words to begin a chapter.
'Stop,' exclaimed the count, bringing out the tablets once more.
At least we may take the tablets from the walls, though the pillars are too heavy for us to handle; but there should be great storerooms filled with gold--gold that we can carry away upon our backs with ease.
I took the tablets from her hand, and it trembled again, and it trembled more as she took off the chain to which the pencil was attached, and put it in mine.
"Now then," said the count, returning his tablets to his pocket, "make yourself perfectly easy; the hand of your time-piece will not be more accurate in marking the time than myself."
Pune, India, June 25, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Elscint Automation, the leading vibratory parts feeder manufacturer from India recently manufactured 3 sets of vibratory feeder equipment (one set consisting of two vibratory bowl feeders, one in clockwise and one in anti-clockwise direction) and one linear vibrator) for feeding of two types of camphor tablets. One tablet size was 16 x 16 x 4 mm thick while the other was 12 x 12 x 3 mm thick.
One of the most dreaded situations that can take place in pharmaceuticals is cross contamination - for example a tablet of a different shape or size becoming mixed in with a batch of tablets currently being packed.
[ClickPress, Fri Sep 28 2018] Tablet & pellets coating is among the traditional pharmaceutical processes which is still continuing with advanced machinery technologies.