tableau
IPA: tʌbɫˈoʊ
noun
- A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
- A vivid graphic scene of a group of people arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.
- (UK, dated) Hence, an arrangement of actors in static positions on stage, having the effect of pointing up a particular moment in the drama, conventionally revealed by opening tableau curtains (known as "tabs").
- (mathematics) A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.
- (linguistics, optimality theory) A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking.
- (card games) Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.
- (logic) A semantic tableau.
- (theater) unit of a play, an opera or a ballet with change of stage setting.
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Examples of "tableau" in Sentences
- The whole tableau is a high school nightmare come to life.
- The killings of the crew men were enacted in tableau fashion.
- It would have puzzled him to stand in tableau for the Earl of
- The last tableau is of the iconic group looking down on Switzerland.
- Eight hours 'work coverts a lump of inert snow into a classic tableau from the Simpsons.
- This sculptured tableau is divided horizontally by the river Orontes, represented by the zigzag lines.
- The most impressive tableau is the pop-up of a large Mos Eisley spaceport where our heroes Luke and Obi-Wan first met Han and Chewie.
- "This is a comeback and a personal project, and from the very opening frame - a gorgeous opening-title tableau - I could see Coppola straining very hard to make it count," writes Glenn Kenny.
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