different between tabulate vs tabulator

English

Etymology 1

table +? -ate; compare Late Latin tabul?tus (“having a floor; floored”), perfect passive participle of tabul? (“to fit with planks”) + -?tus (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-eh?tos (suffix forming adjectives from nouns indicating the possession of a thing or a quality). Tabul? is derived from tabula (“board, plank”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teh?- (a variant of *steh?- (“to stand”)) + *-d?lom (a variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tæbj?le?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tæbju??le?t/, /-j?-/
• Hyphenation: ta?bul?ate

Verb

tabulate (third-person singular simple present tabulates, present participle tabulating, simple past and past participle tabulated)

1. (transitive) To arrange in tabular form; to arrange into a table.
2. (transitive) To set out as a list; to enumerate, to list.

   Synonyms: recite; see also Thesaurus:tick off

3. (transitive, Scotland, obsolete) To enter into an official register or roll.

   Synonyms: enroll; see also Thesaurus:enlist

4. (transitive) To shape with a flat surface.

Hyponyms

• cross-tabulate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

tabulate (plural tabulates)

1. (pharmacy, obsolete) A pill, a tablet.

Etymology 2

Tabulata (“extinct order of corals”) +? -ate. Tabulata is derived from Latin tabul?ta, from tabul?tum (“flooring, storey”), from tabula (“board, plank”) + -tum (from -tus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tus (“suffix forming action nouns from verb roots”)). See further at etymology 1. The order is so named because the corals are characterized by having tabulae.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tæbj?l?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tæbju?l?t/, /-j?-/
• Hyphenation: ta?bul?ate

Adjective

tabulate (not comparable)

1. (paleontology) Describing a member of an extinct order of corals, the Tabulata: having tabulae (well-developed horizontal internal partitions within each cell).

Derived terms

• holotabulate

Translations

Noun

tabulate (plural tabulates)

1. (paleontology) A member of the order Tabulata.

Translations

References

Further reading

• table (information) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tabulata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Verb

tabulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of tabulare
2. second-person plural imperative of tabulare
3. feminine plural of tabulato

Latin

Adjective

tabul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of tabul?tus

English

Etymology

tabulate +? -or

Noun

tabulator (plural tabulators)

1. A person who counts or tabulates things.
2. The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders.
3. (computing) A tab character.
   • 2004, Kari Laitinen, A Natural Introduction to Computer Programming with C# (page 110)

     You can put a tabulator in all those places where a space is allowed. A tabulator character corresponds to, for example, 4 spaces in the program editor.

4. (computing, historical) An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French tabulateur

Noun

tabulator n (plural tabulatoare)

1. tabulator

Declension