table
Syllables: ta·ble/ˈteɪbl̩/[ˈt(ʰ)eɪbɫ̩]
table noun: an item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
Noun
table (plural tables)
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- Set that dish on the table over there, please.
- He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- A supply of food or entertainment.
- The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
- A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
- A service of Holy Communion.
- The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
- One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into an inner and outer table.
- The game of backgammon, or any of several related games.
- A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game; a meeting at a table.
- Alas poore Yorick […] VVhere be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flaſhes of Merriment that were wont to ſet the Table on a Rore?c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- The act of assembling to eat; a gathering to eat, especially at a restaurant.
- Time to come to table.
- Join us at the table I booked at the restaurant.
- 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 players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
- A group of diners at a given table or tables.
- Table 9 wants another round of beers.
- John always gets the best tips because he gets the best tables! It's not fair!
- A session or sessions of negotiation or diplomacy; an opportunity or place for negotiations.
- under the table, on the table, turn the tables
- We need to send someone to represent us at the bargaining table.
- A two-dimensional presentation of data; an enumeration of data or contents.
- table of contents, tide table
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- 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...1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 69
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
- 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?
- A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
- A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
- On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table.2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport
- A tableland; a flat, elevated region.
- A horizontal stratum of rock.
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- A flat length of bone.
- The inner and outer plates that make up the cranium bones; the outer table and the inner table (vitreous table).
- A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
- A stringcourse; a band of horizontal molding or other decoration around a building.
- The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
- A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
- The quadrangle, a space between the heart line and head line.
- A writing tablet.
- A flat surface that supports the slab on which ink is rolled to manipulate its consistency.
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.
- to table fines
- To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
- 'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton
At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni
- 'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton
- To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
- tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditationc. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew
- To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
- 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 January 16, Heather Stewart, Daniel Boffey, The Guardian
- To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
- 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.
- To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
- To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
- To put on a table.
- [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
- To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
- To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
table meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
table in Hindi
- item of furniture
- पटल paṭal, उत्पीठिका utpīṭhikā, मेज़ mez
- grid of data in rows and columns
- तालिका tālikā, सारणी sārṇī
- collection of arithmetic calculations
- पहाड़ा pahāṛā
- computing: a lookup table
- तालिका tālikā
table in Tamil
- item of furniture
- மேசை mēcai, டேபிள் ṭēpiḷ
- collection of arithmetic calculations
- வாய்பாடு vāypāṭu
table in Marathi
- item of furniture
- मेज mej
- grid of data in rows and columns
- तक्ता taktā, सारणी sārṇī
table in Urdu
- item of furniture
- میز mez, پَٹَل paṭal, اُتْپِیٹِھکا utpīṭhikā
- grid of data in rows and columns
- جَدْوَل jadval
- collection of arithmetic calculations
- پَہاڑا pahāṛā
More languagesFewer languages
- table in Bengali
- টেবিল ṭebil, মেজ mej, তালিকা talika
- table in Telugu
- బల్ల balla, మేజా mējā, టేబులు ṭēbulu, పట్టిక paṭṭika
- table in Malayalam
- മേശ mēśa
- table in Kannada
- ಮೇಜು mēju
- table in Punjabi
- ਮੇਜ਼ mez, میز mez
- table in Gujarati
- મેજ mej, ટેબલ ṭebal, કોષ્ટક koṣṭak
- table in Odia
- ଟେବଲ୍ ṭebal
- table in Sanskrit
- भार्मन् bhārman
- table in Sinhala
- මේසය mēsaya
- table in Assamese
- মেজ mez, টেবুল tebul, তালিকা talika
- table in Nepali
- टेबुल ṭebul
- table in Pashto
- مېز mez, جدول jadwál
- table in Tagalog
- mesa, talahanayan
- table in Arabic
- طَاوِلَة ṭāwila, مِنْضَدَة minḍada, تربيزة ṭarabēza, طاولة ṭāwla
- table in Malay
- meja, jadual
- table in Indonesian
- meja, tabel
- table in Persian
- میز mēz, جَدْوَل jadwal, زیج zij
- table in Thai
- โต๊ะ dtó, ตาราง dtaa-raang
- table in Vietnamese
- bàn, bảng, bảng kế, biểu
- table in Myanmar
- စားပွဲ ca:pwai:, ဇယား ja.ya:
- Dhivehi
- މޭޒު mēzu
Examples of table in a sentence
- Some real breakthroughs were made at the summit, but only far from the official diplomatic table.
- He has remarkable skills and expertise to bring to the negotiating table.
- Here is a table of natural logarithms.
Synonyms of table
Forms of table
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tables |
| alternative Geordie | tyebble |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tables |
| present participle | tabling |
| past participle | tabled |
| past | tabled |
Origin of table
Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.
Words formed from table
- above the table
- at table
- bottom of the table
- bring to the table
- clear the table
- coffee table book
- coffee-table book
- cool kids' table
- corbel table
- crosstable
- dispatch table
- distributed hash table
- down-table
- drink under the table
- entable
- extension table
- fact table
- farm-to-table
- fence the tables
- hashtable
- head of the table
- kitchen table issue
- kitchen table polyamory
- kitchen-table software
- kitchen table software
- lay one's cards on the table
- lay the table
- Lord's table
- metatable
- midtable
- multitable
- mutating table
- off the table
- on the table
- open table
- page table
- piece table
- ping pong table
- pivot table
- pizza table
- place one's cards on the table
- plane table
- pound the table
- put bread on the table
- put food on the table
- put one's cards on the table
- readtable
- read the table
- run the table
- seat at the table
- set the table
- sound table
- soundtable
- sparse table
- speed table
- style-table
- symbol table
- table apple
- tablebase
- Table Bay
Phrases with table
- bar table
- cap table
- end table
- ICE table
- kid table
- log table
- loo table
- pay table
- table mat
- table saw
- Table Top
- tea table
167 more phrasesFewer phrases
- bird table
- book table
- card table
- data table
- fire table
- hash table
- high table
- Holy Table
- life table
- pier table
- pool table
- RICE table
- sand table
- side table
- sofa table
- table beer
- table beet
- table bell
- table bird
- Table Cape
- table game
- table head
- table hymn
- table lamp
- table mats
- table plan
- table read
- table salt
- table saws
- table song
- table talk
- table tent
- table wine
- tide table
- time table
- tray table
- wall table
- bench table
- chart table
- cross table
- drink table
- frame table
- green table
- gypsy table
- hobby table
- kiddy table
- kids' table
- light table
- medal table
- nappy table
- night table
- round table
- shake table
- slime table
- steam table
- swing table
- table beers
- table beets
- table bells
- table birds
- table board
- table cloth
- table dance
- table drain
- table drink
- table games
- table grape
- table heads
- table hymns
- table knife
- table lamps
- table linen
- table money
- table plans
- table salts
- table sauce
- table scrap
- table songs
- table spice
- table steel
- table sugar
- table tents
- table water
- table wines
- times table
- truth table
- water table
- Cayley table
- change table
- chef's table
- coffee table
- diaper table
- dining table
- dinner table
- drinks table
- gaming table
- kiddie table
- league table
- lookup table
- nature table
- peanut table
- picnic table
- roller table
- rotary table
- spider table
- table apples
- table boards
- table centre
- table cloths
- table d'hote
- table d'hôte
- table dancer
- table dances
- table drains
- table drinks
- table grapes
- table header
- table hockey
- table knives
- table linens
- table sauces
- table scraps
- table shower
- table soccer
- table spices
- table stakes
- table steels
- table sugars
- table talker
- table tennis
- table waters
- toilet table
- toning table
- trivet table
- vanity table
- bedside table
- console table
- drawing table
- folding table
- gateleg table
- kitchen table
- massage table
- milking table
- Noguchi table
- Parsons table
- rainbow table
- ran the table
- sitting table
- snooker table
- sorting table
- table boarder
- table centres
- table cracker
- table dancers
- table dancing
- table diamond
- table headers
- table lighter
- table manners
- table rapping
- table setting
- table showers
- table surfing
- table talkers
- table volcano
- trestle table
- Wilfley table
Words that rhyme with table
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Questions about table
- What does table mean?
- Table means an item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- What is table in Hindi?
- Table in Hindi is पटल (paṭal), उत्पीठिका (utpīṭhikā), मेज़ (mez). See Table meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use table in a sentence?
- Some real breakthroughs were made at the summit, but only far from the official diplomatic table.
- What part of speech is table?
- Table can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce table?
- Table is pronounced /ˈteɪbl̩/.
- What is the plural of table?
- The plural of table is tables.
Words near table in the dictionary
Source and license
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