different between table vs tent

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)

1. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
   1. An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
   2. The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
   3. A flat tray which can be used as a table.
   4. (poker, metonymically) The lineup of players at a given table.

   5. A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
   6. A supply of food or entertainment.

      The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.

   7. A service of Holy Communion.
2. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
   1. 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.

   2. A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.

   3. (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
   4. (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
3. (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
4. (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
5. 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)

1. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. [from 15th c.]

2. (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

3. (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

4. (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.

5. (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.

6. (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. [18th–19th c.]
7. 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.

8. (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)

1. table (item of furniture)

2. flat surface atop various objects
3. flat part of a cut or carved object
4. (music) table of a stringed instrument
5. matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns
6. 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

1. first-person singular present indicative of tabler
2. third-person singular present indicative of tabler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tabler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tabler
5. 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)

1. A table (furniture with a level surface):
   1. The top of a table (flat surface of a table for use)
   2. (figuratively) A location where one's soul receives nutrition.
   3. (figuratively) A serving or portion of food.
2. A level writing surface:
   1. A tablet, especially a portable one for writing on.
   2. An inscribed memorial, dedication, message, or other text; a sign or monument.
   3. (biblical) The physical Ten Commandments handed down from heaven.
3. Any (relatively) level surface:
   1. A wooden pole or board (especially behind an altar).
   2. The board of a board game (often divided in two).
   3. A level, floor or storey (of a building)
   4. Such a surface used for painting.
   5. (rare) A flat piece of arable land.
   6. (rare, palmistry) A portion of the hand surrounded by palm lines.
4. A glossary or almanac; a reference work or chart of data.
5. A board game similar to backgammon.
6. (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)

1. 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)

1. backgammon

Spanish

Verb

table

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tablar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tablar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tablar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tablar.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?nt, IPA^(key): /t?nt/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /t?nt/
    • Homophone: tint
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: tint (with pin-pen merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”). Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.

2. (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
3. (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.

4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (intransitive) To go camping.

   We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.

2. (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
3. (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.

   The sheet tented over his midsection.

Translations

See also

• camp
• lean-to
• lodge
• pavilion, pavillion
• pitch
• tarp

Etymology 2

From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”).

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
2. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Lydgate to this entry?)

2. (archaic) Intention; design.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 3

From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tent?re (“to probe, test”), alteration of tempt?re (“to test, probe, tempt”).

Noun

tent (plural tents)

2. (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
3. (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (medicine, sometimes figuratively) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

   to tent a wound

Etymology 4

From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tinctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge, tint, tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

See also

• claret, hock, sack

Anagrams

• Nett, nett

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tente, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta or *tenda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?nt/
• Hyphenation: tent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

tent m (plural tenten, diminutive tentje n)

1. tent (for camping, special occasions, etc.)
2. pavillion

   Synonym: paviljoen

3. (informal, Dutch, often in compounds) a building, especially one used for commercial purposes

   Synonym: keet

Derived terms

• circustent
• hottentottententententoonstelling
• kermistent

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tent

1. past participle of tenne

Southern Kam

Adjective

tent

1. short