table
IPA: tˈeɪbʌɫ
noun
- 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.
- A service of Holy Communion.
- (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
- A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- (poker, metonymically) The lineup of players at a given table.
- (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.
- 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.
verb
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
- (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.
- (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).
- (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
- To put on a table.
- (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.
Examples of "table" in Sentences
- He reclines on the table.
- A note was on the bedside table.
- The witch sets the box onto the table.
- The table is the code table for the glitch.
- The objection is purely to the use of a table.
- The main use of the table is to compare the boxes.
- A pencil was one of the objects left on the table.
- The bowl was removed from the table and the table was enlarged.
- The first table is fine, with the text flowing to the left of the table.
- Yes the contents of the table appear to contradict the definition of object.