Inscription vs. Tablet — What's the Difference?

A thing inscribed, as on a monument or in a book

A slab or plaque, as of stone or ivory, with a surface that is intended for or bears an inscription.

The act or an instance of inscribing.

A thin sheet or leaf, used as a writing surface.

A marking, such as the wording on a coin, medal, monument, or seal, that is inscribed.

A set of such leaves fastened together, as in a book.

A piece of material, such as a stone or metal tablet, that is inscribed.

A pad of writing paper glued together along one edge.

An enrollment or a registration of names.

A lightweight, portable computer having a touchscreen as the method by which data is input.

A short, signed message in a book or on a photograph given as a gift.

A small flat pellet of medication to be taken orally.

The usually informal dedication of a book or an artistic work.

A small flat cake of a prepared substance, such as soap.

The act of inscribing.

To inscribe on a tablet.

Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone.

To form into a tablet.

The text on a coin.

A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.

Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.

(religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.

The act or process of inscribing.

A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.

That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.

A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.

A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.

(computing) A graphics tablet.

An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.

(computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.

Letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something

(Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.

A short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something

(rail) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.

The activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words

(transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

A small table or flat surface.

A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

Hence, a small picture; a miniature.

A kind of pocket memorandum book.

A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; - called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription

A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

A small flat compressed cake of some substance;

A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet