Word: table Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbl̩/, [ˈt(ʰ)eɪbɫ̩], [ˈtʰeɪb(ə)ɫ], [ˈtʰæɪbəɫ], [ˈtʰeːb(ə)ɫ] 1. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. Labels: countable Example: Set that dish on the table over there, please. Example: 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. 2. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. Labels: countable 3. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. Labels: countable 4. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. Labels: countable Example: The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets. 5. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. Labels: countable, metonymically 6. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. Labels: countable 7. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. Labels: countable 8. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses. Labels: countable 9. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game. Example: 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? Example: 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. 10. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game. Labels: metonymically Example: That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event 11. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game. Labels: metonymically 12. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game. Labels: metonymically Example: Table 9 wants another round of beers. Example: John always gets the best tips because he gets the best tables! It's not fair! 13. A two-dimensional presentation of data. Example: 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. 14. A two-dimensional presentation of data. Example: The children were practising multiplication tables. Example: Don’t you know your tables? 15. A two-dimensional presentation of data. 16. A two-dimensional presentation of data. Example: 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. 17. The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate. 18. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond. 19. A flat gravestone supported on pillars. 20. A writing tablet. Labels: obsolete