Book vs Table - What's the difference?
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A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets.
A major division of a long work.
A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
The script of a musical.
(usually, in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
(legal) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
(poker slang) four of a kindWeisenberg, Michael (2000) [http://www.poker1.com/mcu/pokerdictionary/mculib_dictionary_info.asp The Official Dictionary of Poker]. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
(sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
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To reserve (something) for future use.
To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
(law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
(sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
(slang) To travel very fast.
To record bets as bookmaker.
(law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
(slang) To leave.
(bake)
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.
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, title= # A flat tray which can be used as a table.
# (poker, metonym) The lineup of players at a given table.
# A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
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# A service of Holy Communion.
A two-dimensional presentation of data.
# A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
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# A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
# (computing) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
# (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
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, title= (musical instruments) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
(backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
To put on a table.
(British, Canada) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table ).
(US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
To tabulate; to put into a table.
To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
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To supply with food; to feed.
(carpentry) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
To enter upon the docket.
(nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
As a noun book
is book.As a verb table is
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(wikipedia book)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . (cognates)Cognate with (etyl) (m), . The sense development of beech'' to ''book'' is explained by the fact that smooth gray beech bark was commonly used as bookfell.J.P. Mallory, ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , s.v. "beech" (London: Fitroy-Dearborn, 1997), 58.Noun
(en noun)- She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
- He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book .
- I have three copies of his first book .
- Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
- Many readers find the first book of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' to be confusing.
- I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
- a book of stamps
- a book of raffle tickets
Synonyms
* (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material) tome (especially a large book) * booklet * tome, volume * (script of a musical) libretto * (records of the accounts of a business) accounts, recordsDerived terms
* address book * audiobook * book account * book agent * book-answerer * book award * book-bearer * bookbinder * book-board * book-bosomed * book-bound * book-boy * book-burning * book canvasser * bookcase * book-cloth * book club * book concern * book-crab * book-credit * book-debt * book-edge gilder * book-edge marbler * book end, bookend * bookery * booketeria * book-farmer * book-folder * book-form * bookful * book-ghoul * book-gill * book hand * book-holder * bookhood * book-house * book-hunt * bookie * bookish * bookism * bookjacket * bookkeeper * bookkeeping * book-label * book-lare * book-law * book-lear * book-learned * book-learning * book-length * bookless * booklet * booklike * bookling * booklore * booklouse * book lung * bookly * bookmaker * bookmaking * bookman * bookmark, bookmarker * book match * book-mate * book-mindedness * book mite * bookmobile * book-muslin * book name * book-number * book-oath * book of first entry * book of original entry * Book of the Dead * book of the film * Book of God * book of lading * book of life * book of rates * book of reference * book of the living * book of words * book-packet * book piles * bookplate * book pocket * book-post * book-postage * book-press * book price * book prop * book-rate * book-read * bookrest * book-scorpion * bookseller * bookselling * bookshelf * bookshop * book-shy * booksie, booksy * book-slide * book-society * book-stack * bookstall * book-stamp * bookstand * bookstore * book support * booksy * book-table * book token * book trade * book-tray * book-trough * book type * book value * bookwards * book-ways * bookwise * bookwork * book-world * bookworm * book-wright * booky * bring to book * burn book * by the book * casebook * closed book * close the books * coffee-table book * comic book * cookbook * cookery book * cook the books * copybook * coursebook * e-book * exercise book * the Good Book * guidebook * handbook * hymn book * in anyone's book * in my book * in someone's bad books * in someone's good books * in the books * know like a book * logbook * make book * matchbook * notebook * off the books * on the books * open book * passbook * pension book * phrasebook * pocket-book, pocketbook * prayer book * ration book * reading book * read like a book * reference book * rough book * scrapbook * sketch book * songbook * storybook * suit one's book * take a leaf out of someone's book * talk like a book * textbook * throw the book at * without book * wordbook * workbook * yearbookSee also
* incunable * scroll * tome * volumeVerb
(en verb)- I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night
- I can book tickets for the concert next week.
- They booked that message from the hill
- The police booked him for driving too fast.
- He was really booking , until he passed the speed trap.
- The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
- He was here earlier, but he booked .
Synonyms
* (to reserve) reserve * (to write down) make a note of, note down, record, write down * (to travel very fast) bomb (slang), hurtle, rocket (informal), speed, shoot, whiz (informal)Derived terms
* bookable * double-book * overbook * rebook * unbook * underbookEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(head)Statistics
*Anagrams
* (l) * (l)table
English
(wikipedia table)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table —but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}
The China Governess, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}
- 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.
Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle, passage=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 .}}
Synonyms
* (computing) grid, vectorHypernyms
* (furniture) furniture * (computing) arrayHyponyms
* (computing) hashtableDerived terms
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* (furniture) chairVerb
(tabl)- (Carlyle)
- The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will start discussing it now.
- 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 table fines
- tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation
- (Milton)
- to table charges against someone