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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