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How to use tabula in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun

Tabula means a plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved. Example: “The tabula is here seen to have an irregular structure of coarse mesh whose interstices are occupied by a finer mesh.”

Examples of tabula by meaning

nounA plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.

  • The tabula is here seen to have an irregular structure of coarse mesh whose interstices are occupied by a finer mesh.1937, Kyancutta Museum, Memoirs - Issues 4-6, page 103
  • Fragment of an inscription in a tabula carved in the rock.1982, H. W. Pleket, R. S. Stroud, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum [SEG]: 1978, page 227
  • The date is written above the tabula and down the right side, which is worn; the main text is written within the tabula, with each line of verse separated by an incised line.1989, Charlotte Roueché, Joyce Maire Reynolds, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity

nounA table, index, or list of data.

  • Another tabula on third fly-leaf, and some writing in a later hand.1908, James Maurice Wilson, Cosmo Alexander Gordon, Early Compotus Rolls of the Priory of Worcester, page 28
  • Another tabula represents the rate of morbidity according to different organs and age groups.1962, Neoplasma, page 221
  • This may be done on the spot, or the initial tabula(e) may be delineated prior to the meeting (e.g., via an agreed agenda or results from a prior session).1992, Randall Whitaker, Venues for Contexture: A Critical Analysis and Enactive Reformulation of Group Decision Support Systems, page 157

nounA legal record.

  • The soldiers who dedicated the tabula to the empress might have had a personal connection with her, but if so, it was not a typical relationship.2013, Julie Langford, Maternal Megalomania: Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood, page 23
  • However, proclamation was to be made of the offence and the misdeed inscribed on a 'tabula' in the Guildhall, so that citizens and other inhabitants might be warned not to employ him in any spiritual office.2014, Fernanda Pirie, Judith Scheele, Legalism: Community and Justice

nounA writing-tablet, slate, or similar medium on which to write.

  • On the tabula of the mind she tried to write the word.2010, John Lawton, A Lily of the Field
  • With your tabula perhaps, the way Olwen did when Moira needed you?2014, Alyxandra Harvey, A Breath of Frost, page 403
  • The mind is a tabula to engrave the story of reality's cataclysmic impacts, the individual—a tool through which history confides it to mankind.2014, Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva, The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry, page 60

nounA frontal; a drapery for an altar.

  • Another tabula in the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. probably belonged to the same textile.2004, Sabine Schrenk, Textilien des Mittelmeerraumes aus spätantiker bis tru:hisiamischer Zeit, Abegg-Stiftung, page 470
  • Another tabula in Paris shows the same characteristics but even more progressively stylized and is therefore dated to the Arabian period, eighth to ninth century.2005, Peter Noever, Angela Völker, Fragile remnants, page 57
  • Another tabula ( cat.89 ) recalls the naturalistic concept of the classic Graeco-Roman portrait, in widespread use up to the 4th or 5th century.2006, HALI: The International Journal of Oriental Carpets and Textiles, page 111

nounAn ancient Roman game similar to backgammon that was played on a board with 24 divisions.

  • Readers may like to make a tabula board and try a simple game from France using two cubic dice.1974, Games & Puzzles - Issues 21-31, page 5
  • A bronze mirror from about 200 B.C. depicts a young man and a young woman playing tabula.2002, Steve Craig, Sports and Games of the Ancients, page 113
  • Two men hunched in silence over black and white counters on a tabula board which had been carved around the edge with scenes of warriors at arms.2011, James Wilde, Hereward, page 209

nounOne of the transverse plates found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

  • Frontal with a tabula, with a crescent of small, slit-like pores.1968, Danish Science Press, Atlantide Report: Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946...
  • The chain coral Halysites, one corallite partially cut away to expose tabulae.1987, E. W. Nield, Drawing & Understanding Fossils: A Theoretical and Practical Guide for Beginners, with Self-assessment, Pergamon Press...
  • In the axially sectioned, middle part of the corallite, tabulae are complete, leaning at approximately 50° from the corallite wall to its axis.1972, Bull. K. Belg. Inst. Nat. Wet, page 69

More sentences with tabula

  • Tabulae are transverse plates which may be flat, convex or concave.1979, E[uan] N[eilson] K[err] Clarkson, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, London; Boston, Mass.; Sydney, N.S.W.: George Allen &…. From the entry tabularium
  • Indeed, he brings major rasa to the tabula.2002 August, Jeff Z. Klein, “Who Cares If He's Gay? Mike Piazza's a Big Sellout”, in Details, page 52. From the entry Stepfordian
  • In his quest for rehabilitation, Connally is counting on the newspapers' behaving as they normally do: becoming tabulae rasae every 24 hours.1975 October 27, Aaron Latham, “John Connally on the Comeback Road”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, pages 47–48. From the entry tabula rasa
  • They would have us revert to the tabula rasa of Locke, the vibratiuncule of Hartley, and the unmitigated associationism of James Mill.1921: The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology, volume 16, page 332 (Boyd Printing and Pub. Co.). From the entry vibratiuncule
  • Bawden described the newly constructed microraiony in Mongolia as a tabula rasa development—a new material environment, which had little in common with the Mongolia of the past.2024, Nikolay Erofeev, “Building the Space of Internationalism: Socialist Assistance to Mongolia in the 1950s–1970s”, in Marcus Colla…. From the entry microraion
  • If it touches on isolation, tabulae rasae, or close encounters of a new kind, or if it has a character commenting on society from the outside—it’s a Robinsonade.2013 September 16, Kent Russell, “The Lost Boy of Restoration Island”, in The New Republic, volume 244, number 15. From the entry robinsonade
  • It is true that this view contradicts that of Raoul-Rouchette, who remains faithful to his marotte, which admits only paintings on wood, because they are called tabulae.2004, Gottfried Semper, translated by Harry Francis Malgrave, Style in the technical and tectonic arts, or, Practical aesthetics, Los…. From the entry marotte

Meaning of tabula

  1. noun A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.
  2. noun A table, index, or list of data.
  3. noun A legal record.

Full definition of tabula

Questions about tabula in a sentence

How do you use tabula in a sentence?
Tabula is used as a noun. For example: “The tabula is here seen to have an irregular structure of coarse mesh whose interstices are occupied by a finer mesh.”
What is a short sentence with tabula?
“Indeed, he brings major rasa to the tabula.”
What does tabula mean?
Tabula means a plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.

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