Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Tablet

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Tablet: noun - a flat slab of stone, metal, orwood carrying an inscription, carving, or picture; a slab used as a roofing orflooring tile; a rigid card used in tablet-weaving; in Computing - a flat rectangularsurface on which a stylus or finger may be moved to position a cursor on a screen;a flat ornament of precious metal or jewellery; a small flat or compressedpiece of a solid substance; a portion of medicine or drug compressed into asolid flattish shape, intended to be swallowed whole; a cake of soap.
'Keep taking the tablets!'
'Porky Smellworthy spentthe whole afternoon carving a tablet of soap into a miniature model of theVenus de Milo.'
'Moses descended themountain, carrying stone tablets bearing the dozens of laws he'd beeninstructed to chisel into the rock, and, falling flat on his face, smashed mostof them to smithereens.'