Table

Definition: Table

Table

Noun

1. A set of data arranged in rows and columns; "see table 1".

2. A piece of furniture having a smooth flat top supported by one or more vertical legs; "it was a sturdy table".

3. A piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it; "I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant".

4. Flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water".

5. A company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game; "he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks".

6. Food or meals in general; "she sets a fine table"; "room and board".

Verb

1. Hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "table" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Table \Ta"ble\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Tableed; Tableing.]. (references)

Satire

Computing

Census

Chemistry

Dream Interpretation

Law

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Statistics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Table

Arrangement

Digest; synopsis; (compendium); syntagma, table, atlas; file, database; register.; (record); organism, architecture.

Flatness

Plane; level; plate, platter, table, tablet, slab.

Lateness

Put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table; shift off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate; dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out; prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let the matter stand over; reserve; (store); temporize; consult one's pillow, sleep on it.

Layer

Noun: layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter.

Neglect

Slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; table; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to; not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget; be caught napping; (not expect); leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet.

Support

Board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack; mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf; slab, console; counter, dresser; flange, corbel; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse, hatrack; retable; teapoy.

Writing

Stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter.

Crosswords: Table

French (board, table).

Your usual table, sir. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

I've got Jews at my table. (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus)

Well, it's kinda like table tennis, only with slightly smaller balls (Four Weddings and a Funeral; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

Some day me and Adele be walking down the road and we'll see your book and we'll buy it and put it on our coffee table. (Kalifornia; writing credit: Tim Metcalfe. Starring Brad Pitt as Early Grayce, Juliette Lewis as Adele Corners, David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, and Michelle Forbes as Carrie Laughlin.)

Your buffet table of love (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez)

She was sitting at the table (Smooth Criminal; performing artist: Alien Ant Farm)

Nuttin just grab my chain off the table and 2 way too (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

Turn table lets bless me on my stereo (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas)

They'll stone ya when you're at the breakfast table. (Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

Table for two on a TV tray (Born To Be My Baby; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required on it. (references; author: unknown)

The doctor is not able to operate the notable because he has no table! (references; author: unknown)

A crumb from a winner's table is better than a feast from a loser's table! (references; author: unknown)

What has four legs, is big, green, fuzzy, and if it fell out of a tree would kill you?  A pool table. (references; author: unknown)

You're trailer trash when you let your twelve-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids. (references; author: unknown)

Under the Table You Must Go (1970)

Nuts of the Round Table (1967)

King Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table (1966)

Time Table Blues (1966)

Treize à table (1956)

Australian Table Wines (performing artist: Monty Python)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Bed, Table, Toilet and Kitchen Linens in Africa (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Table Luminaires: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Bed, Table, Toilet and Kitchen Linens Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Bed, Table, Toilet and Kitchen Linens Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Small Kitchen Appliances for Table Top Cooking in Asia (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Bodywork Shiatsu: Bringing the Art of Finger Pressure to the Massage Table (reference)

• The Accurate Table Saw: Simple Jigs and Safe Setups (Cambium Handbook) (reference)

• Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (reference)

• La Bonne Table (reference)

• Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty and Became Their Own Bosses (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Flaveurs A La Table De (reference)

• Masters Table (reference)

• Table Of Public General Statutes (reference)

• Table Tennis News (reference)

• Usa Table Tennis Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• An Angel at My Table (reference)

• Table Manners for Kids - Tots to Teens (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Under the Table & Dreaming (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Celestron Table Top 76 Telescope (reference)

• Table Top Controller (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Bosch 4000K 10" Worksite Table Saw, Including TS1000 Folding Steel Stand and Outfeed Extension, a $154.98 Value (reference)

• Forrest WW10407125 Woodworker II 10", 40-Tooth Blade for Table Saws (1/8" Kerf) (reference)

• Incra INTELFNC33 33" Inteli-Fence All Purpose Router Table Fence (reference)

• Brownstone Gallery Simple Stripe 70-Inch Round Cotton/Poly Table Tablecloth, Ivory (reference)

• Quoizel Dominion Amber Antique Glass Table Lamp, 23.75" (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A dark grey collander sits on a grey marble table surrounded by a red and white checkered napkin. Inside the collander are broccoli and carrots. To the side of the napkin are several beans and more broccoli. In front of the collander entwined in the napkin is a wooden spoon with some broccoli in the ladle. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

From an overhead angle, a large black bowl of various colored beans and legumes sits in the center of a dark wooden table. Next to the bowl are a gold napkin and a fork. Behind the bowl are several mounds of different beans. The white lettering above the bowl reads "Eat beans and other legumes often". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" January 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Table showing Adult AIDS Cases by Exposure Category Reported in 1996, United States. Credit: CDC.

Symptoms of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis. Table. Am J Med 71:759. Credit: CDC.

A monstrous black hole's rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into ... Credit: NASA.

Comparison of a plane table sheet (on the left) and aerial photography Cooperative project with Army Air Service. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Aerial photography vs. plane table mapping. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Preparing Maryland Blue Crabs for the dinner table. Passing on the knowledge of the Chesapeake Bay from generation to generation. Credit: America's Coastlines.

False Egg Island. South End Table Island. In: Pacific Coast Pilot Alaska Part I 1883. P. 20. Library call number VK943 .N3 1883. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Trawling operations on the MILLER FREEMAN. A full net-load of fish brought aboard. The cod end is being lifted. It will be dumped in the checker, i.e, the sorting table. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Divisions and Army Corps headquarters staffs shall be organised in accordance with Table No. (reference)

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1904)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Mr. Knightley had another reason for avoiding a table in the shade

Sit close to the table.

When it had said these words, the spectre took its wrapper from the table, and bound it round its head, as before

So saying, she showed the old woman two Napoleons that glistened on the table.

Stephen sat down at his right and the priest at the other side of the table closed his copy of The Tablet with an angry snap and stood up.

Ma stacked the plates on the kitchen table and piled cups beside them

I had the honor to dine with the Governor, where a new set of ghosts served up the meat, and waited at table.

One has peeled a willow wand, woven it into a ring, and dropped it on my table.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Table 2 gives you more examples of clear liquids. (references)

The article has 2 figures, 1 table, and 40 references. (references)

A. Seasonality of the illness varies by country (see table). (references)

Business

Table 7 below shows sales by end-user sector. (references)

Share of these groups is listed in Table 6 below. (references)

Table III shows the import duties for these products. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

Table 9: Major Foreign Investor Firms. (references)

Russia

Table 4 shows annual investment by sector. (references)

Qatar

Table 3.1 shows the corporate income tax structure. (references)

Human Rights

Canada

On December 6, the Supreme Court placed tight controls over police strip searches in a ruling prompted by a 1997 Toronto case, in which the victim was bent over a table and forcibly strip searched in a fast food restaurant. (references)

Mexico

Salazar said that he respected the EZLN's decision to cut off contact with the administration following congressional approval of an amended version of the COCOPA bill and added that he believed that it was necessary to make changes to the law so that the Zapatistas would return to the negotiating table. (references)

Minorities

Macedonia

Sulejmani claimed that masked policemen forced him off of a bus and that he was handcuffed to a table and questioned for 10 hours. (references)

Political Economy

West Bank

The USG is committed to doing everything it can to get the two side to end the violence and get back to the negotiating table. (references)

RUSSIA

The strategy includes a detailed table of actions to be undertaken in its initial 18 months, and more general goals for the following eight years. (references)

AUSTRALIA

Concerns remain with Australia's restrictions on California table grapes, Florida citrus, stone fruit, chicken (fresh, cooked, and frozen), pork, apples, and corn. (references)

Trade

Qatar

Table 8.7 provides a review of company borrowings, sources and line of business. (references)

Mexico

NOM-120-SCFI-1996 for table grapes published on November 22, 1996 in the Diario Oficial. (references)

Vietnam

An U.S. exporter that can bring financing to the table will also enhance its competitiveness. (references)

Travel

Philippines

There is usually a head table for the VIPs. (references)

Philippines

It is also customary to have a drink before sitting at a dining table. (references)

Brazil

Fares are inexpensive and sometimes a table used to adjust fares is posted on the inside of the taxi's rear window. (references)

Worker Rights

Russia

Employers often ignore the requirement to negotiate and refuse to come to the bargaining table or refuse to provide financial information demanded by trade unions. (references)

Honduras

In March the Popular Bloc ("Bloque Popular"), a group of dissident members of some 40 labor, peasant, and social organizations held a number of demonstrations to bring the Government, the private sector, and organized labor to the bargaining table to negotiate increases in contributions to the social security system. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A moist table

A table

Expressions using "table": actuarial table ♦ aerodrome climatological table ♦ air movement table ♦ aircraft loading table ♦ altitude table ♦ Analytical table ♦ artillery fire plan table ♦ ascii character table ♦ at table ♦ at the table ♦ at the top of the table ♦ authorization table ♦ bang one's fist on the table ♦ bed table ♦ bedside table ♦ behind the table ♦ belt of fluctuation of water table ♦ Bench table ♦ billiard table ♦ bird table ♦ board or table ♦ Boolean operation table ♦ breakfast table ♦ calculation table ♦ canting table ♦ card table ♦ cells table ♦ Chancel table ♦ chronological table ♦ circular table ♦ clear the table ♦ cocktail table ♦ coffee table ♦ color table ♦ colour table ♦ communion table ♦ conference table ♦ console table ♦ conversion table ♦ correlation table ♦ Council table ♦ decision table ♦ decline of water table ♦ delimiter descriptor table ♦ delivery table ♦ depleted water table ♦ diagnostic table ♦ dining table ♦ dinner table ♦ drafting table ♦ drawing table ♦ Dressing table ♦ drink smb. under the table ♦ Earth table ♦ elevating table ♦ emitting table ♦ empirical yield table ♦ end table ♦ establishment table ♦ Experience table ♦ exposure table ♦ Extension table ♦ extention table ♦ file Allocation Table ♦ flow table ♦ fluctuation of water table ♦ folding table ♦ from underneath the table ♦ function table ♦ gambling table ♦ gaming table ♦ genealogical table ♦ graduated table ♦ Grass table ♦ green table ♦ Ground table ♦ ground water table ♦ groundwater table ♦ gynecologic table ♦ gynecological table ♦ hash table ♦ Hazard table ♦ high table ♦ highest stage of the water table ♦ hygrometric table ♦ imposing table ♦ inclinable table ♦ Inking table ♦ inlaid table ♦ ironing table ♦ japanese table pine ♦ keep a good table ♦ keep an excellent table ♦ keep open table ♦ kerning table ♦ kitchen table ♦ Knights of the Round Table ♦ lay the table ♦ life table ♦ Loo table ♦ look up table. Additional references.

Beginning with "table": table-beer, table-bell, table-boarder, table-book, table-clearer, table-cloth, table-cloths, table-companion, table-cooked, table-cover, table-coverings, table-cricket, table-cut, table-fellowship, table-flap, table-football, table-fountain-cum-water, table-free, table-full, table-harpsichord, table-hopping, table-lamp, table-lamps, Table-land, table-leaf, table-leg, table-lifting, table-lighter, table-like, table-linen, table-loading, table-manners, table-mat, table-mats, table-money, table-mountain pine, table-qualities, table-rapping, table-shaped, table-sharers, table-slip, table-stone, table-tapping, table-tennis, table-tennis bat, table-tennis racquet, table-tennis table, table-top, table-toppers, table-topping, table-tops, table-to-table, table-turning, table-wine.

Ending with "table": bed-table, billiard-table, bird-table, bottom-of-the-table, breakfast-table, card-table, coffee-table, context-table, dining-table, dinner-table, dressing-table, mid-table, side-table, tea-table, time-table, top-of-the-table, trestle-table, water-table, work-table, writing-table.

Containing "table": coffee-table book, round-table conference, tea-table conversation, Tilt-Table Test.

Afrikaans

tafel. (various references)

Albanian

tryezë e shtruar, tryezë (mahogany), tavolinë (desk), tabelë (array, board, chalkboard, chart, facia, fascia, hoarding, sign, signboard), vë në tryezë, ushqim (aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, fare, feed, feeding, food, foodstuff, grub, input, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, repast, supply, sustenance, tack, Tommy), shesh (circus, course, court, esplanade, field, ground, place, platform, Square), rrafshnaltë (plateau, tableland, wold), paraqes raport. (various references)

Arabic 

‏منضدة (bar, bureau, desk, stand), ‏لعبة النرد (dice), ‏لائحة (list, register, roster, schedule), ‏قائمة (calendar, catalogue, docket, enumeration, index, list, listing, manifest, register, roll, roster, schedule, scroll), ‏وضع على جدول الأعمال, ‏تصنيف (assortment, breed, classification, compilation, digestion, distribution, place, ranking, rating, sorting, standing), ‏تربيزة المكوة, ‏تربيزة, ‏طاولة (board), ‏صنف (article, assort, brand, categorize, category, class, classification, classify, compile, designate, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, kind, label, pigeonhole, place, rank, rate, sort, species, stow, systematize, tabulate, type), ‏جلس على المائدة, ‏جدول (bayou, brook, chart, creek, flow, glen, gulch, gully, gutter, index, list, panel, purl, register, rill, rivulet, runlet, runnel, scale, schedule, small stream, stagger, stream, tabulate, tally, wadi, water course), ‏أعد المائدة, ‏أجل (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, dignify, esteem, glorify, hold over, honor, honour, look up to, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put off, rather, refer back, regard, remit, set aside, shelve, stall, suspend, value, yep, yes). (various references)

Asturian

mesa. (various references)

Basque

mahai. (various references)

Bemba

tebulo, itebulo. (various references)

Blackfoot

iitáísooyo'p. (various references)

Bulgarian 

за маса, дъсчица (tablet), играя карта, плака (plate), плато (plateau, table land), плоча (flag, flagstone, plate, slab, slate), плочка (planch, plate, tile), плоска повърхност (plane), подставка за инструмент, дъска (panel, plank), правя надпис върху плоча, слагам на маса, записвам си, маса (accumulation, aggregation, body, bulk, concretion, crowd, gross, heap, heaps of, herd, lashings, lot, lump, mass, oodles, pack, regiment, ruck, scad, shoal, slathers, stack, swarm, volume, volumes), надпис на плоча, шпунтувам (match), таблица (chart, scale, schedule, scheme, tabulation), трапеза (board, repast), равнина (flat, level, plain, plane), списък (beadledom, bill, calendar, catalogue, docket, enumeration, index, list, roll, roster, rota, schedule, scroll), поставям на обсъждане. (various references)

Catalan

taula. (various references)

Cebuano

lamisa. (various references)

Chamorro

lamasa (desk). (various references)

Chinese 

桌 . (various references)

Cornish

bord. (various references)

Czech

tabulka (bar, chart, slab, Square, tablet), stùl (board), stůl, položit na stùl, plošina (plateau, platform), přehled (cadastre, compendium, digest, outline, statement, summary, survey, synopsis, view), odložit ad acta, navrhnout (bring in, come up with, design, devise, draw, draw up, make a proposal, move, prefer, propone, propose, suggest), deska (board, cover, leaf, panel, plate, record, sheet, slab), dìlat přehledy. (various references)

Danish

bord (tabling). (various references)

Dutch

tafel (index, tablet, tabulation), tabel (index, tablet, tabulation). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

miza. (