Char vs Table - What's the difference?
char | table |
(obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
(obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
(obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
* 1893', She explained that she was the commissionaire's wife, who did the ' charing , and I gave her the order for the coffee. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’ (Norton 2005, p.677)
* 1897 , , chapter 2
(obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
* Old proverb
To work or hew (stone, etc.).
One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus .
(ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
A charred substance.
(computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol), whose data size is commonly one or several bytes.
* Java programming language tutorial [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/text/terminology.html]
* 1975 , Computerworld - 23 avr. 1975 - Page 21
* 1997 , Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals
* 1998 , John R Hubbard, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Fundamentals of Computing with C++
* 2000 , Ken Brownsey, The essence of data structures using C++
* 2002 , Nell B. Dale, Michael McMillan, Visual Basic .NET: a laboratory course - Page 25
(British) tea (drink)
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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, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
# A service of Holy Communion.
A two-dimensional presentation of data.
# A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
#* 1997 , Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
# 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.
* Francis Bacon
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 proper noun char
is a nickname for charlotte.As a verb table is
.char
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at chore, ajar.Alternative forms
* chareNoun
(en noun)- I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn't come.
Synonyms
* charlady * charwoman * cleaning lady * cleaning womanVerb
- Her husband had been a soldier, and from a grateful country she received a pension large enough to keep her from starvation, and by charring and doing such odd jobs as she could get she earned a little extra to supply herself with liquor.
- That char is chared , as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband.
- (Nares)
Etymology 2
Origin unknown, perhaps from Celtic.Alternative forms
* charrNoun
(en-noun)- “Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char .”
Etymology 3
Verb
(charr)Synonyms
* coal * blacken, scorch, sear, singeNoun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* charcoalEtymology 4
Abbreviation of (m).Noun
(en noun)- The unit is an 80-column, 30 char. /sec dot matrix printer which uses a 5 by 7 font.
- A Unicode code unit is a 16-bit char value. For example, imagine a String that contains the letters "abc" followed by the Deseret LONG I, which is represented with two char values. That string contains four characters, four code points, but five code units.
- Chars can be considered as integers if need be without an explicit cast.
- Then since each char occupies one byte, these four bytes represent the three letters 'B', 'y', 'e', and the null character NUL.
- Thus string variables are pointer variables to chars .
- .NET uses the Unicode character set in which each char constant or variable takes up two bytes (16 bits) of storage.
Derived terms
* signed char * unsigned charEtymology 5
From (etyl) , with intrusive r .Noun
(-)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