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table
English
Alternative forms
- tyebble (Geordie)
Etymology
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 with the flat top and legs” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used b?od or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: t??b?l, IPA(key): /?te?b?l/
- Rhymes: -e?b?l
- Hyphenation: ta?ble
Noun
table (plural tables)
- 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.
- (poker, metonymically) The lineup of players at a given table.
- A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
- A supply of food or entertainment.
- The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
- A service of Holy Communion.
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- A two-dimensional presentation of data.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
- 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.
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
- 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
- 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.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
- The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
Synonyms
- (computing): grid, vector
Hypernyms
- (computing): array
- (furniture): furniture
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Pages starting with “table”.
Related terms
Coordinate terms
- (furniture): chair
Descendants
- ? Assamese: ????? (tebul)
- ? Bengali: ????? (?ebil)
- ? Gujarati: ???? (?ebal)
- ? Japanese: ???? (t?buru)
- ? Korean: ??? (teibeul)
- ? Maori: t?pu
- ? Nepali: ????? (?ebul)
- ? Oriya: ????? (?ebôl)
Translations
References
- table on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
table (third-person singular simple present tables, present participle tabling, simple past and past participle tabled)
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. [from 15th c.]
- (now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. [from 15th c.]
- 'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton
- At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni
- 'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton
- (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. [17th–19th c.]
- c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew
- tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation
- c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew
- (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. [from 17th c.]
- 2019, Heather Stewart and Daniel Boffey, The Guardian, 16 January:
- In a raucous Commons, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, confirmed he had tabled a formal motion of confidence in the government, backed by other opposition leaders, which MPs would vote on on Wednesday.
- 2019, Heather Stewart and Daniel Boffey, The Guardian, 16 January:
- (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something). [from 19th c.]
- The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.
- The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.
- (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. [18th–19th c.]
- To put on a table. [from 19th c.]
- 1833 Thomas Carlyle, letter to his Mother, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
- [A]fter some clatter offered us a rent of five pounds for the right to shoot here, and even tabled the cash that moment, and would not pocket it again.
- 1833 Thomas Carlyle, letter to his Mother, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
- (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.
Related terms
- tabulate
Translations
See also
- tabula rasa
References
- table (parliamentary procedure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- ablet, blate, bleat
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tabl/
Etymology 1
From Old French table, from Latin tabula (“tablet”). Doublet of tôle and taule.
Noun
table f (plural tables)
- table (item of furniture)
- flat surface atop various objects
- flat part of a cut or carved object
- (music) table of a stringed instrument
- matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns
- systematic list of content
Derived terms
Related terms
- tableau
- tabulaire
- tabulation
Descendants
- ? Bulgarian: ????? (tabla)
- ? Macedonian: ????? (tabla)
- ? Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ?????
- Latin: tabla
Etymology 2
From the verb tabler.
Verb
table
- first-person singular present indicative of tabler
- third-person singular present indicative of tabler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of tabler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of tabler
- second-person singular imperative of tabler
Anagrams
- balte, bêlât
Further reading
- “table” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- tabel, tabil, tabul, tabyl, tabyle, tabyll, tabulle, tabele, tabill
Etymology
From a combination of Old French table and Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula, both from Latin tabula.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ta?b?l/, /?ta?bl?/
Noun
table (plural tables or (early) tablen)
- A table (furniture with a level surface):
- The top of a table (flat surface of a table for use)
- (figuratively) A location where one's soul receives nutrition.
- (figuratively) A serving or portion of food.
- A level writing surface:
- A tablet, especially a portable one for writing on.
- An inscribed memorial, dedication, message, or other text; a sign or monument.
- (biblical) The physical Ten Commandments handed down from heaven.
- Any (relatively) level surface:
- A wooden pole or board (especially behind an altar).
- The board of a board game (often divided in two).
- A level, floor or storey (of a building)
- Such a surface used for painting.
- (rare) A flat piece of arable land.
- (rare, palmistry) A portion of the hand surrounded by palm lines.
- A glossary or almanac; a reference work or chart of data.
- A board game similar to backgammon.
- (rare) A flat bone or fused set of bones.
Related terms
- tablement
- tablen
- tabler
- tablet
Derived terms
- rounde table, table rounde
Descendants
- English: table (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: table
- ? Welsh: tabl
References
- “t?ble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin tabula.
Noun
table f (oblique plural tables, nominative singular table, nominative plural tables)
- table (furniture)
Descendants
- French: table
- ? Bulgarian: ????? (tabla)
- ? Macedonian: ????? (tabla)
- ? Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ?????
- Latin: tabla
- Walloon: tåve
- ? Irish: tábla
- ? Middle English: table, tabel, tabil, tabul, tabyl, tabyle, tabyll, tabulle, tabele, tabill
- English: table (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: table
- ? Welsh: tabl
See also
- nape
Romanian
Etymology
From Greek ????? (távli). Doublet of tabl?.
Noun
table f pl (plural only)
- backgammon
Spanish
Verb
table
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tablar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tablar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tablar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tablar.
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nightstand
English
Alternative forms
- night stand, night-stand
Etymology
night (“the conventional time for a person to be in bed”) +? stand (“an object which supports things”).
Noun
nightstand (plural nightstands)
- (US) A small table or cabinet, typically with drawers, placed at the head side of a bed.
- Synonyms: bedside table, night table
Translations
Further reading
- nightstand on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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