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Table

//ˈteɪbl̩// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun

1
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs. countable
"Set that dish on the table over there, please."
2
a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs wordnet
3
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts. countable
4
a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it wordnet
5
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; A flat tray which can be used as a table. countable

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6
food or meals in general wordnet
7
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; A supply of food or entertainment. countable
"The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets."
8
a set of data arranged in rows and columns wordnet
9
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair. countable, metonymically
10
a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game wordnet
11
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; A service of Holy Communion. countable
12
flat tableland with steep edges wordnet
13
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table. countable
14
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over. countable
15
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
"Alas poore Yorick […] VVhere be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flaſhes of Merriment that were wont to ſet the Table on a Rore?"
16
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.; The lineup of players at a given table. metonymically
"That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event"
17
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.; A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign. metonymically
18
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.; A group of diners at a given table or tables. metonymically
"Table 9 wants another round of beers."
19
A two-dimensional presentation of data.; A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
"I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order … And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation. Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables … Western reason had entered the age of judgement."
20
A two-dimensional presentation of data.; A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
"The children were practising multiplication tables."
21
A two-dimensional presentation of data.; A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
22
A two-dimensional presentation of data.; A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
"On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table."
23
The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
24
The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
25
A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
26
A writing tablet. obsolete

Verb

1
To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
"to table fines"
2
arrange or enter in tabular form wordnet
3
To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. archaic
"'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni"
4
hold back to a later time wordnet
5
To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. obsolete
"c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation"

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6
To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
"In a raucous Commons, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, confirmed he had tabled a formal motion of confidence in the government, backed by other opposition leaders, which MPs would vote on on Wednesday."
7
To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something). US
"The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later."
8
To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display. metonymically
9
To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. obsolete
10
To put on a table.
"1833 Thomas Carlyle, letter to his Mother, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson [A]fter some clatter offered us a rent of five pounds for the right to shoot here, and even tabled the cash that moment, and would not pocket it again."
11
To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown. colloquial
12
To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.

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