table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tāʹbəl
ipa: /ˈteɪbl̩/
ipa: [ˈt(ʰ)eɪbɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈtʰeɪb(ə)ɫ]
ipa: [ˈtʰæɪbəɫ]
ipa: [ˈtʰeːb(ə)ɫ]
ipa: [ˈtɛːb(ə)ɫ]
note: Indic
ipa: [ˈʈeːbɨl]
note: Indic
ipa: [-äl]
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: tables
form: tyebble
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.
Senses: examples: text: Set that dish on the table over there, please.
text: 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.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: 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,[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: 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.
glosses: Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
glosses: Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
A flat tray which can be used as a table.
examples: text: The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
glosses: Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
A supply of food or entertainment.
glosses: Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
glosses: Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
A service of Holy Communion.
topics: backgammon
games
glosses: Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
glosses: Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
examples: text: 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?
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
examples: text: That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
The lineup of players at a given table.
glosses: A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
qualifier: roleplaying games
examples: text: Table 9 wants another round of beers.
text: John always gets the best tips because he gets the best tables! It's not fair!
glosses: A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
A group of diners at a given table or tables.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: A two-dimensional presentation of data.
A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
examples: text: The children were practising multiplication tables.
text: Don’t you know your tables?
text: Here is a table of natural logarithms.
glosses: A two-dimensional presentation of data.
A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A two-dimensional presentation of data.
A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A two-dimensional presentation of data.
A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
glosses: The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
glosses: A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A writing tablet.
Synonyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: grid
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: vector
Hypernyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: array
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: furniture
Hyponyms: topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: billiard table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: coffee table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: diaper table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: dining table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: dinner table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: dressing table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: drop-leaf table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: end table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: examination table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: gateleg table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: kiddie table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: leave on the table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: milking table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: mortality table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: nappy table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: negotiating table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: negotiation table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: occasional table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: peanut table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: pier table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: pool table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: roller table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: round table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: table tennis table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: tea table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: toilet table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: vanity table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: wall table
topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: worktable
topics: geology
geography
natural-sciences
word: tea table
topics: geology
geography
natural-sciences
word: water table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: Cayley table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: data table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: division table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: file allocation table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: function table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: hash table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: league table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: log table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: lookup table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: multiplication table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: periodic table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: rainbow table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: shake table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: tide table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: time table
sense: two-dimensional enlisting
word: truth table
Coordinate terms: topics: furniture
lifestyle
word: chair
Derived terms: above the table
at table
bar table
bedside table
bedtable
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
coffee table book
coffee-table book
concentration table
console table
contingency table
cool kids' table
corbel table
crosstable
dining-table
dinner-table
dispatch table
distributed hash table
down-table
drafting table
drawing table
dressing-table
drink someone under the table
drinks-table
drinks table
drink-table
drink table
drink under the table
entable
experience table
extension table
factorial table
fact table
farm-to-table
fence the tables
fire table
frame table
gaming table
green table
gypsy table
hashtable
high score table
high-score table
high table
hobby table
ICE table
imposing table
input-output table
inversion table
junction table
kiddies' table
kiddy table
kids' table
kid table
kitchen table issue
kitchen table polyamory
kitchen-table software
kitchen table software
lay one's cards on the table
lay the table
lifetable
light table
loo-table
loo table
Lord's table
massage table
medal table
metatable
midtable
Morrison table
multitable
mutating table
nature table
night table
Noguchi table
off the table
on the table
open table
operating-room table
operating room table
operating table
page table
Parsons table
pay table
Pembroke table
picnic table
piece table
pintable
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
readtable
read the table
refectory table
retable
RICE table
rotary table
run the table
sand table
seat at the table
self-waiting table
set the table
shuffleboard table
side table
side-table
sitting table
sleeping table
slime table
snooker table
sorting table
sound table
soundtable
sparse table
speed table
spider table
steam table
steamtable
style-table
subtable
supertable
swing table
symbol table
table apple
tablebase
Table Bay
table beer
table beet
table board
table boarder
tablebook
table-cloth
tablecloth
table cloth
table cracker
table dance
table dancer
table dancing
table-decker
table decoration
table d'hôte
table d'hote
table-diamond
table diamond
table drain
table drink
tablefellow
table football
tableful
table game
tablegrape
table grape
table hockey
tablehood
table-hop
table-hopper
table hymn
tableity
table knife
table lamp
tableland
tableless
table lighter
tablelike
table-linen
table linen
tablemaid
tablemaker
table-maker's dilemma
tablemaking
tableman
table manners
table mat
tablemate
table money
tablemount
table mountain
Table Mountain
Table Mountains
tableness
table of contents
table of death
table rapping
table read
table salt
table saw
tablescape
table scrap
table-setting
table setting
table-shade
table shower
table shuffleboard
tableside
table soccer
table song
tablespace
table spice
table-spoon
tablespoon
table stakes
table steel
table steel guitar
table steel guitarist
tablestone
table sugar
tablet
table-talk
table talk
table talker
table tennis
table tent
table-tipping
tabletop
table-top
tabletopped
table-turner
table-turning
table volcano
tableward
tablewards
tableware
table water
table wine
tablewise
tableword
tablework
tableworthy
talk someone under the table
tea-table
throwing table
tilt table test
times table
timetable
time-table
toilet-table
toning table
traverse table
tray-table
tray table
trestle table
trivet table
turntable
turn the table
turn the tables
two-table
under-the-table
under the table
unset the table
vaulting table
wait on tables
wait tables
washhand table
wavetable
whirling table
Wilfley table