TABLE

table

(noun) a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs; “it was a sturdy table”

table

(noun) a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it; “I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant”

board, table

(noun) food or meals in general; “she sets a fine table”; “room and board”

table, tabular array

(noun) a set of data arranged in rows and columns; “see table 1”

table

(noun) a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game; “he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks”

mesa, table

(noun) flat tableland with steep edges; “the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water”

table, tabularize, tabularise, tabulate

(verb) arrange or enter in tabular form

postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off

(verb) hold back to a later time; “let’s postpone the exam”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

table (plural tables)

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.

The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.

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.

A supply of food or entertainment.

A service of Holy Communion.

A two-dimensional presentation of data.

A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.

A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.

(computing, chiefly, databases) 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.

(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.

The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.

Synonyms

• (computing): grid, vector

Hypernyms

• (computing): array

• (furniture): furniture

Hyponyms

(furniture):

• billiard table

• coffee table

• dining table

• dinner table

• dressing table

• drop-leaf table

• end table

• examining table

• kiddie table

• milking table

• negotiating table

• occasional table

• pier table

• pool table

• round table

• tea table

• toilet table

• vanity table

(geology):

• tea table

• water table

(two-dimensional enlisting):

• Cayley table

• data table

• division table

• file allocation table

• function table

• hash table

• league table

• log table

• lookup table

• multiplication table

• periodic table

• rainbow table

• shake table

• tide table

• time table

• truth table

Coordinate terms

• (furniture): chair

Verb

table (third-person singular simple present tables, present participle tabling, simple past and past participle tabled)

To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. [from 15th c.]

(now, rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. [from 15th c.]

(obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. [17th–19th c.]

(non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda. [from 17th c.]

(chiefly, US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something). [from 19th c.]

(carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. [18th–19th c.]

To put on a table. [from 19th c.]

(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.

Anagrams

• ablet, blate, bleat

Source: Wiktionary

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Ta"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tableed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tableing.]

1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.

2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. Bacon.

3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] Milton.

4. (Carp.)

Definition: To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.

5. To lay or place on a table, as money. Carlyle.

6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.

7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.

8. (Naut.)

Definition: To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

Ta"ble, v. i.

Definition: To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [Obs.] "He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts." South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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