tab vs sleeping tablet

tab and sleeping tablet both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tab	Yes	No	No	No
sleeping tablet	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sleeping tablet is a hyponym of tab; that is, sleeping tablet is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tab:

tab: a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
sleeping tablet: a soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)

Other hyponyms of tab include bolus, capsule, dragee, sleeping capsule, sleeping draught, sleeping pill.

tab (noun)	sleeping tablet (noun)
a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet	a soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)
a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it
the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation
the bill in a restaurant
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