table

noun

(countable) 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.

A supply of food or entertainment.

(metonymic) A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.

A service of Holy Communion.

(backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.

A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.

A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

(poker, metonymic) The lineup of players at a given table.

(roleplaying games, metonymic) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.

(waitstaff, metonymic) A group of diners at a given table or tables.

A two-dimensional presentation of data.

A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.

A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.

(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.

(music) 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.

(obsolete, biblical) A writing tablet.

verb

To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.

(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.

(chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).

(metonymic) To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.

To put on a table.

(poker, colloquial) To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.

(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.

(now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.

(obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.

(carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.

Roots

tabulatabl- · Latin · board, tablet

Synonyms for table

worktablen sideboardn deskn boardn shelvev taboretn buffetn lecternn dressern countern

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