Cigarette vs. Tab — What's the Difference?

A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing burnable material, typically tobacco, that is rolled into thin paper for smoking. Across all forms of tobacco consumption both smoking and nonsmoking cigarettes are the most purchased and consumed tobacco item, creating a multibillion-dollar industry.

A small flap or strip of material attached to or projecting from something, used to hold, fasten, or manipulate it, or for identification and information.

A thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

A second or further document or page that can be opened on a spreadsheet or web browser.

A small roll of finely cut tobacco for smoking, enclosed in a wrapper of thin paper.

A restaurant bill

A similar roll of another substance, such as a tobacco substitute or marijuana.

Short for tableau curtains

Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.

A part of a control surface, typically hinged, that modifies the action or response of the surface.

To give someone a cigarette, and/or to light one for them.

A cigarette.

A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

A facility in a word-processing program, or a device on a keyboard, for advancing to a sequence of set positions in tabular work

Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking

A tablet, especially one containing an illicit drug

A tabloid newspaper

Short for tablature

Mark or identify with a projecting piece of material

Use the tab key on a computer or typewriter keyboard

Short for tabulate

A projection, flap, or short strip attached to an object to facilitate opening, handling, or identification.

A small, usually decorative flap or tongue on a garment.

A small auxiliary airfoil that is attached to a larger one and that helps stabilize an aircraft.

A pull-tab.

A bill or check, such as one for a meal in a restaurant.

Cost; price

A tabulator on a typewriter.

A key on a computer keyboard that, when pressed, inserts a special ASCII character used for formatting text, as in indenting a line or block of text.

This special ASCII character.

A tabloid.

To supply with a tab or tabs.

To press the tab on a typewriter or computer keyboard

A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.

(slang) An ear.

A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.

(GUI) The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.

A fast march or run with full kit.

A restaurant bill.

Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate

(by extension) The cost or bill for anything.

(computing) A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.

A cigarette.

A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.

(Oxbridge slang) A student of Cambridge University.

(colloquial) A tabloid newspaper.

(informal) A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.

(transitive) To affix with tabs; to label.

(computing) To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

A tag. See Tag, 2.

A loop for pulling or lifting something.

A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.

A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.

A small projecting piece of a file folder, file card, or similar sheet used in a filing system, on which a notation is written to permit convenient search for the folder, card, etc.

A bill or check for some purchase, as in a restaurant; as, the salesman will pick up the tab.

A key on a typewriter or computer keyboard which advances the carriage or curser to the next (preset) tab position; - used especially to type or print text or numbers in columns.

The bill in a restaurant;

Sensationalist journalism

The key on an electric typewriter that causes a tabulation

A short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it;

A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet