Tabbed vs Cabbed - What's the difference?
tabbed | cabbed |
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)
(cab)
A taxi; a taxicab.
Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty)
To travel by taxicab.
An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.3:
(video games, informal) An arcade cabinet; the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
As verbs the difference between tabbed and cabbed
is that tabbed is (tab) while cabbed is (cab).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)cabbed
English
Verb
(head)cab
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- Captain went out in the cab' all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the ' cab . Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!