table
English
editAlternative forms
edit- tyebble (Geordie)
Etymology
editFrom 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.
Pronunciation
edit- enPR: tāʹbəl, IPA(key): /ˈteɪbl̩/
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- Rhymes: -eɪbəl
- Hyphenation: ta‧ble
Noun
edittable (plural tables)
- 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.
- Set that dish on the table over there, please.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].
- 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.
- The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
- A service of Holy Communion.
- (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- 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 Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:
- 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?
- 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 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 for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
- (poker, metonymically) The lineup of players at a given table.
- That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event
- (roleplaying games, metonymically) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
- (waitstaff, metonymically) 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 two-dimensional presentation of data.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 69:
- 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 judgement.
- 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?
- Here is a table of natural logarithms.
- (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.
- 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
- 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.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- (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.
Synonyms
editHypernyms
editHyponyms
editCoordinate terms
edit- (furniture): chair
Derived terms
edit- bedtable
- coffee table book, coffee-table book
- concentration table
- crosstable
- dining-table
- dinner-table
- dressing-table
- entable
- fact table
- hashtable
- ICE table
- kitchen table polyamory
- lifetable
- Lord's table
- metatable
- midtable
- multitable
- operating-room table
- Parsons table
- pintable
- readtable
- read the table
- retable
- RICE table
- side table
- side-table
- soundtable
- steamtable
- subtable
- supertable
- symbol table
- tablebase
- Table Bay
- tablebook
- tablecloth
- tablefellow
- tableful
- tablegrape
- table grape
- tablehood
- table-hop
- tableity
- tableland
- tableless
- tablelike
- table-linen
- tablemaid
- tablemaker
- tablemaking
- tableman
- tablemate
- tablemount
- Table Mountain
- Table Mountains
- tableness
- table read
- tablescape
- tableside
- tablespace
- tablespoon
- tablestone
- tabletop
- tabletopped
- table-turner
- tableward
- tablewards
- tableware
- tablewise
- tableword
- tablework
- tableworthy
- tea-table
- time-table
- timetable
- toilet-table
- tray-table
- trestle table
- turntable
- wait tables
- washhand table
- wavetable
English terms starting with “table”
Derived terms
edit- at table
- bar table
- bedside table
- bench table
- bird table
- book table
- bottom of the table
- bring to the table
- capitalization table
- cap table
- captain's table
- card table
- changing table
- chart table
- chef's table
- children's table
- clear the table
- cocktail table
- console table
- contingency table
- corbel table
- dispatch table
- distributed hash table
- down-table
- drafting table
- drawing table
- drink someone under the table
- drinks table
- drinks-table
- drink-table
- drink table
- drink under the table
- experience table
- extension table
- factorial table
- farm-to-table
- fence the tables
- fire table
- frame table
- gypsy table
- high score table
- high-score table
- high table
- hobby table
- imposing table
- input-output table
- inversion table
- kiddies' table
- kiddy table
- kids' table
- kid table
- kitchen table issue
- kitchen table software
- kitchen-table software
- lay one's cards on the table
- lay the table
- light table
- loo table
- loo-table
- massage table
- medal table
- Morrison table
- mutating table
- nature table
- night table
- Noguchi table
- off the table
- on the table
- open table
- operating room table
- operating table
- page table
- pay table
- Pembroke table
- picnic table
- piece 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
- racetrack table
- refectory table
- rotary table
- run the table
- sand table
- seat at the table
- set the table
- shuffleboard table
- sitting table
- sleeping table
- snooker table
- sorting table
- sound table
- sparse table
- speed table
- spider table
- steam table
- swing table
- table apple
- table beer
- table board
- table boarder
- table cloth
- table-cloth
- table dance
- table dancer
- table dancing
- table-decker
- table decoration
- table d'hote
- table d'hôte
- table diamond
- table-diamond
- table drain
- table football
- table hockey
- table-hopper
- table hymn
- table knife
- table lamp
- table lighter
- table linen
- table-maker's dilemma
- table manners
- table mat
- table money
- table mountain
- table of contents
- table of death
- table rapping
- table salt
- table saw
- table scrap
- table-setting
- table setting
- table-shade
- table shuffleboard
- table soccer
- table song
- table spice
- table-spoon
- table stakes
- table steel
- table steel guitar
- table steel guitarist
- table sugar
- tablet
- table-talk
- table talk
- table talker
- table tennis
- table tent
- table-tipping
- table-top
- table-turning
- table water
- table wine
- talk someone under the table
- throwing table
- tilt table test
- times table
- toning table
- traverse table
- tray table
- trivet table
- turn the table
- turn the tables
- two-table
- under the table
- under-the-table
- unset the table
- vaulting table
- wait on tables
- wait tables
- whirling table
- Wilfley table
Descendants
edit- → Assamese: টেবুল (tebul)
- → Bengali: টেবিল (ṭebil)
- → Gujarati: ટેબલ (ṭebal)
- → Japanese: テーブル (tēburu)
- → Korean: 테이블 (teibeul)
- → Maori: tēpu
- → Nepali: टेबुल (ṭebul)
- → Odia: ଟେବଲ୍ (ṭebal)
- → Telugu: టేబులు (ṭēbulu)
Translations
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editVerb
edittable (third-person singular simple present tables, present participle tabling, simple past and past participle tabled)
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. [from 15th c.]
- to table fines
- (now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. [from 15th c.]
- '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
- (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. [17th–19th c.]
- c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew
- tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation
- c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew
- (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. [from 17th c.]
- 2019 January 16, Heather Stewart, Daniel Boffey, The Guardian:
- 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.
- (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something). [from 19th c.]
- 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.
- (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. [18th–19th c.]
- To put on a table. [from 19th c.]
- 1833 Thomas Carlyle, letter to his Mother, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
- [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
- (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.
Related terms
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See also
editReferences
edit- table (parliamentary procedure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old French table, from Latin tabula (“tablet”). Doublet of tôle and taule.
Noun
edittable f (plural tables)
- table (item of furniture)
- Pourquoi as-tu laissé ces livres sur la table ?
- Why did you leave these books on the table?
- flat surface atop various objects
- flat part of a cut or carved object
- (music) table of a stringed instrument
- matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns
- systematic list of content
Derived terms
edit- à table
- attabler
- avoir table ouverte
- bière de table
- dessous-de-table
- devoir sur table
- entabler
- hockey sur table
- jouer cartes sur table
- mettre la table
- mettre ses couilles sur la table
- mettre sur la table
- ordinateur de table
- passer sous la table
- poser ses couilles sur la table
- se mettre à table
- sel de table
- table à manger
- table à repasser
- table basse
- table de chevet
- table de multiplication
- table de nuit
- table des matières
- table des négociations
- table d’hôte
- table rase
- table ronde
- tabler
- taper du poing sur la table
- tenir table ouverte
- tennis de table
- tour de table
- vin de table
Related terms
editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editFrom the verb tabler.
Verb
edittable
- inflection of tabler:
Further reading
edit- “table”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom a combination of Old French table and Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula, both from Latin tabula.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittable (plural tables or (early) tablen)
- A table (furniture with a level surface):
- The top of a table (flat surface of a table for use)
- (figurative) A location where one's soul receives nutrition.
- (figurative) A serving or portion of food.
- A level writing surface:
- A tablet, especially a portable one for writing on.
- An inscribed memorial, dedication, message, or other text; a sign or monument.
- (biblical) The physical Ten Commandments handed down from heaven.
- Any (relatively) level surface:
- A glossary or almanac; a reference work or chart of data.
- A board game similar to backgammon.
- (rare) A flat bone or fused set of bones.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- English: table (see there for further descendants)
- Geordie English: tyeble
- Scots: table
- → Welsh: tabl
References
edit- “tāble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.
Old French
editEtymology
editNoun
edittable oblique singular, f (oblique plural tables, nominative singular table, nominative plural tables)
- table (furniture)
Descendants
edit- French: table
- Walloon: tåve
- → Irish: tábla
- → Middle English: table, tabel, tabil, tabul, tabyl, tabyle, tabyll, tabulle, tabele, tabill
See also
editRomanian
editEtymology
editNoun
edittable f pl (plural only)
Declension
editSpanish
editVerb
edittable
- inflection of tablar:
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