Table vs Mother - 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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, 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.
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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.
A (human) female who (a) s a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d) donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be.
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* 1991 , (Susan Faludi), The Undeclared War Against American Women ,
A female parent of an animal.
(figuratively) A female ancestor.
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(figuratively) A source or origin.
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(when followed by a surname) A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
(figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
(figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
* The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. –Judges
* Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. –Galatians
A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
(obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria.
To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
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Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
(euphemistic, coarse, slang) Motherfucker.
(euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example.
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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
*mother
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- I am visiting my mother'''(a) today.'' — ''My sister-in-law has just become a '''mother'''.(b)'' — ''Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the '''mother (c) are conveyed to the fetus.
- He had something of his mother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.
- The antiabortion iconography in the last decade featured the fetus but never the mother .
- The lioness was a mother of four cubs.
- And Ada[Adam] called his wyfe Heua[Eve] because she was the mother of all that lyveth
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- But one in the place of God and not God, is as it were a falsehood; it is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.
- The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
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- Alas, poor country: / Almost afraid to know itself! It cannot / Be call'd our mother , but our grave:
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- But one in the place of God and not God, is as it were a falsehood; it is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.
- Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
5:7, KJV.
4:26, KJV.
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Synonyms
* See also * metro-Antonyms
* (with regards to gender) father * (with regards to ancestry) daughter, son, childHypernyms
* (a female parent) parentCoordinate terms
* (a female parent) fatherDerived terms
* antimother * be mother * biological mother * birth mother * foster mother * grandmother, great-grandmother * Mother City * Mother Earth * motherfucker * Mothering Sunday * mother-in-law * motherland * motherload * mother lode * Mother's Day * mother-to-be * mother wit * motherwort * refrigerator mother * stepmother * surrogate motherVerb
(en verb)- She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.
References
*American Heritage Dictionary of the English LanguageFourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company 2003.
Etymology 2
Calque of Arabic .Noun
(en noun)- "The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun." — (Saddam Hussein)