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.
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Examples of "table" in Sentences
- DELIA (_at table and leaning across, with hands on table_).
- DAN _sits on the left of the table, where "East Lynne" is open on the table_.
- (_Crossing up to smoking - table up_ R., _and filling his pipe which he finds on table_.)
- Each table in our room had a superb _surtout de table_ in silver, and silver drinking-cups worthy of a museum.
- The trouble with the peace table is that the Allies want it _à la carte_, and Wilson wants it American plan -- _table d'hôte_.
- HELEN O'NEILL _seated above table; _ MISS EASTWOOD _seated below console table_ R. _end of chesterfield; _ ROSALIE _seated_ C. _chesterfield; _
- And to think that I actually sat on that table -- no, that seat (_he points to the settee_ R., _then he moves up stage between it and the table_) -- that I sat there with him this morning, and never guessed!
- Jerome and other Fathers called the communion bread -- _little body_, and the communion table -- _mystical table_; the latter, in allusion to the heathen and early Christian mysteries, and the former, in reference to the children sacrificed at the Agapae.
- It would not be pleasant, certainly, to sit for an hour at a big empty table, ordering dishes fit only for epicures, and then, just as the waiters bore down with the Little Neck clams, so nicely iced and so cool and bitter-looking, to have to rise and go out into the street to a _table d'hôte_ around the corner.
- Pierre at first failed to distinguish anything, but, when he was installed at the little table -- a garden-table which had been brought indoors for the occasion, and on which there was scarcely room for two covers -- he felt quite upset, almost sick, in fact, at the sight presented by the _table d'hote_, which his glance now enfiladed from end to end.
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