table Noun
( en noun)
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.
#* , chapter=6
, title= 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.}}
#* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), chapter=Foreword
, title= 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, […].}}
# A flat tray which can be used as a table.
# (poker, metonym) The lineup of players at a given table.
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# A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
#*
, title=( The Celebrity), chapter=8
, 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)
- 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.
# A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
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# (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.
#* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= 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 .}}
(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.
Synonyms
* (computing) grid, vector
Hypernyms
* (furniture) furniture
* (computing) array
Hyponyms
* (computing) hashtable
Derived terms
{{der3, billiard table
, bring to the table
, Cayley table
, coffee table
, data table
, dining table
, dinner table
, division table
, dressing table
, drop-leaf table
, drink under the table
, end table
, examining table
, file allocation table
, function table
, hash table
, league table
, log table
, lookup table
, multiplication table
, off the table
, periodic table
, pier table
, pool table
, pound the table
, put one's cards on the table
, rainbow table
, round table
, shake table
, tablecloth/table cloth
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, table dancer
, table decoration
, table football
, table-hop
, table lamp
, table linen
, table manners
, table mountain
, table of contents
, table salt
, table saw
, table stakes
, table talk
, table tennis
, table wine
, tablespoon
, tabletop
, tableward
, tableware
, talk someone under the table
, tea table
, tide table
, timetable/time table/time-table
, toilet table
, tray-table
, truth table
, turn the tables
, under the table
, vanity table
, wait tables
, water table
, occasional table}}
(table)
Related terms
* tablet
Coordinate terms
* (furniture) chair
Verb
( tabl)
To put on a table.
- (Carlyle)
(British, Canada) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table ).
- The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will start discussing it now.
(US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
- 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 tabulate; to put into a table.
- to table fines
To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
* Francis Bacon
- tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation
To supply with food; to feed.
- (Milton)
(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.
- to table charges against someone
(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.
Related terms
* tabulate
See also
* tabula rasa
Statistics
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