tabulating

Verb

tabulate (third-person singular simple present tabulates, present participle tabulating, simple past and past participle tabulated)

1. (transitive) To arrange in tabular form; to arrange into a table.
   • Let it be required to Tabulate or lay down this Number 3496. Firſt, from among your Sets of Rods (or out of your Caſe) take four of them, of which let one of them have the Figure 3 at the top thereof, and lay it upon your Tabellet cloſe to the Edge thereof, […]1700, William Leybourn, “Instrumental Arithmetick. The Third Part. Teaching, by a New Artifice (not heretofore Published, to My Knowledge, in any Language.) The Manner how to Set Down any Decimal...
2. (transitive) To set out as a list; to enumerate, to list.
   • Mr. [Edward Drinker] Cope has examined a collection from the territory of Arizona and in the Colorado district; it contained 44 species. […] He tabulates them according to their range into the neighbouring provinces, and points out that, herpetologically, the Sonoran and Lower Californian provinces...1867, Albert Günther, “Reptilia”, in Albert C[harles] L[ewis] G[otthilf] Günther, editor, The Record of Zoological Literature. 1866, volume III, London: John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, pages...

   Synonyms:

   recite, catalogue, enumerate, list, tick off

3. (Scotland, obsolete, transitive) To enter into an official register or roll.
   • The order of Tabulating Summonds is now much alter'd, for no Summonds are Tabulated except Actions of Declarators, Improbations, Contraventions, and other Actions at the King's Advocats inſtance, […]1687, George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, “King James the Fifth, Parl. 5. [Act 52.]”, in Observations on the Acts of Parliament, …, Edinburgh: Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, printer to His Most...

   Synonyms:

   enroll, catalogue, enlist, induct, enscroll, put down, put on, register

4. (transitive) To shape with a flat surface.

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