table
UK [ˈt(ʰ)eɪbɫ̩] · US [ˈtʰeɪb(ə)ɫ] noun, verb
Forms tables tabling tabled tyebble
- noun 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.”
- noun A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- noun (by extension) A supply of food or entertainment. “The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.”
- noun (metonymic) A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
- noun (Christianity) A service of Holy Communion.
- noun The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
- noun (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into an inner and outer table.
- noun (plural, chiefly historical) The game of backgammon, or any of several related games.
- verb To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. “to table fines”
- verb (now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
- verb (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
- verb (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.
- verb (chiefly US) 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.”
- verb (metonymic) To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
- verb (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
- verb To put on a table.
Synonyms
grid vector moot propose tabular array mesa board postpone prorogue hold over put over shelve set back defer remit put off tabularize tabularise tabulate
Etymology
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.
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “table”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details