table.
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
Meaning & usage
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.
Set that dish on the table over there, please.
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. A flat tray which can be used as a table.
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. A supply of food or entertainment.
The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. A service of Holy Communion.
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.
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into an inner and outer table.
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into an inner and outer table. The game of backgammon, or any of several related games.
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game; a meeting at a table.
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game; a meeting at a table. The act of assembling to eat; a gathering to eat, especially at a restaurant.
Time to come to table.
Join us at the table I booked at the restaurant.
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game; a meeting at a table. The lineup of players at a given table.
That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event.
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game; a meeting at a table. A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game; a meeting at a table. A group of diners at a given table or tables.
Table 9 wants another round of beers.
John always gets the best tips because he gets the best tables! It's not fair!
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game; a meeting at a table. A session or sessions of negotiation or diplomacy; an opportunity or place for negotiations.
under the table, on the table, turn the tables
We need to send someone to represent us at the bargaining table.
A two-dimensional presentation of data; an enumeration of data or contents.
table of contents, tide table
A two-dimensional presentation of data; an enumeration of data or contents. A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
A two-dimensional presentation of data; an enumeration of data or contents. A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
The children were practising multiplication tables.
Don’t you know your tables?
A two-dimensional presentation of data; an enumeration of data or contents. A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
A two-dimensional presentation of data; an enumeration of data or contents. A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. A tableland; a flat, elevated region.
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. A horizontal stratum of rock.
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. A flat length of bone.
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. A flat length of bone. The inner and outer plates that make up the cranium bones; the outer table and the inner table (vitreous table).
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. A stringcourse; a band of horizontal molding or other decoration around a building.
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. The quadrangle, a space between the heart line and head line.
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. A writing tablet.
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface. A flat surface that supports the slab on which ink is rolled to manipulate its consistency.
Where this word comes from
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.
To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
to table fines
To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.
The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.
To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
To put on a table.
To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
Where this word comes from
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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