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TABULATE
tabulate
(verb) shape or cut with a flat surface
table, tabularize, tabularise, tabulate
(verb) arrange or enter in tabular form
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
tabulate (third-person singular simple present tabulates, present participle tabulating, simple past and past participle tabulated)
(transitive) To arrange in tabular form; to arrange into a table.
(transitive) To set out as a list; to enumerate, to list.
(transitive, Scotland, obsolete) To enter into an official register or roll.
(transitive) To shape with a flat surface.
Synonyms
• (set out as a list): recite; see also tick off
• (enter into an official register): enroll; see also enlist
Hyponyms
• cross-tabulate
Noun
tabulate (plural tabulates)
(pharmacy, obsolete) A pill, a tablet.
Etymology 2
Adjective
tabulate (not comparable)
(paleontology) Describing a member of an extinct order of corals, the Tabulata: having tabulae (well-developed horizontal internal partitions within each cell).
Noun
tabulate (plural tabulates)
(paleontology) A member of the order Tabulata.
Source: Wiktionary
Tab"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tabulating.] Etym: [L. tabula a table. See Tabular.]
1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses. A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures. I. Taylor.
2. To shape with a flat surface.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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