Table vs Blue - What's the difference?
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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.
Of the colour blue.
(lb) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
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Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
Pornographic or profane.
(lb) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
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(lb) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
(lb) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
(lb) Possessing a coat of fur that is a shade of gray.
(lb) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
literary; bluestockinged.
* (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
(lb) Having a color charge of blue.
The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
A blue dye or pigment.
Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
Blue clothing
(in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
(slang) A member of law enforcement
The sky, literally or figuratively.
The ocean; deep waters.
Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 5 points.
Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily in the family Lycaenidae.
A bluefish.
(Australia, colloquial) An argument.
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* 2011 , Julietta Jameson, Me, Myself and Lord Byron ,
A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
(British) A type of firecracker.
(archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
(ergative) To make or become blue.
(metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
(slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 311:
As a verb table
is .As a proper noun blue is
an anglicization of (etyl) blau.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
See also
* tabula rasaStatistics
*blue
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete) * (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- The ladies were very blue and well informed.
Antonyms
* (having blue as its colour) nonblue, unblueNoun
(en noun)- The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
- The ball came out of the blue and cracked his windshield.
- ''His request for leave came out of the blue .
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- If they had a blue between themselves, they kept it there, it never flowed out onto the streets to innocent people — like a lot of things that have been happenin? on the streets today.
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- On another occasion, there was a blue between Henry Daniels and Merv Wilson down at the pig sale. I don?t know what it was about, it only lasted a minute or so, but they shook hands when it was over and that was the end of it.
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- I was a bit disappointed. Was that it? No abuse like Lord Byron had endured? Not that I was wishing that upon myself. It was just that a blue between my parents, albeit a raging, foul, bile-spitting hate fest, was not exactly Charles Dickens.
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*Verb
- They was willing to blue the lot and have nothing left when they got home except debts on the never-never.