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Tabling

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.
  2. 2
    The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
  3. 3
    A broad hem on the edge of a sail.

    "On the luffs and after leaches of jibs the tabling ought to be 3 inches, on the foot 1 inches"

  4. 4
    A setting-aside of a topic from discussion. US

    "The Woodstock Town Board dropped the controversial anti-discrimination ordinance after a meeting marked by a series of tablings and withdrawals of various resolutions."

  5. 5
    The introduction of a topic to a discussion. UK
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  1. 6
    Representing a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display. metonymically
  2. 7
    board; support obsolete

    "My daughter hath there already now of me ten poundes, which I account to be given for her tabling : after this ten poundes will follow another, for her apparel"

  3. 8
    The uses of a table that contains the results of subproblems which can then be used later in the solving of a problem when the same subproblem arises again.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of table form-of, gerund, participle, present

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