table
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation 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.
- That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event
- A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
- A supply of food or entertainment.
- The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
- 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
- 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.
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
- 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.
- The children were practising multiplication tables.
- Don’t you know your tables?
- Here is a table of natural logarithms.
- (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.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- (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.
- Russian: табли́ца
table (tables, present participle tabling; past and past participle tabled)
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. [from 15th c.]
- to table fines
- (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.]
- c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew
- tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation
- c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew
- (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.]
- 2019, Heather Stewart and Daniel Boffey, The Guardian, 16 January:
- In a raucous Commons, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, confirmed he had tabled a formal motion of confidence in the government, backed by other opposition leaders, which MPs would vote on on Wednesday.
- 2019, Heather Stewart and Daniel Boffey, The Guardian, 16 January:
- (chiefly, US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something. [from 19th c.]
- 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.
- (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. [18th–19th c.]
- To put on a table. [from 19th c.]
- 1833 Thomas Carlyle, letter to his Mother, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
- [A]fter some clatter offered us a rent of five pounds for the right to shoot here, and even tabled the cash that moment, and would not pocket it again.
- 1833 Thomas Carlyle, letter to his Mother, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
- (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.
- French: mettre la table
- Spanish: poner sobre la mesa
- Spanish: traer a discusión
- Portuguese: adiar
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