table

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Hypernyms 1.3.3 Derived terms 1.3.4 Related terms 1.3.5 Coordinate terms 1.3.6 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Related terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 See also 1.6 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Related terms 2.3 Verb 3 Romanian 3.1 Noun

[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

• (Canadian, UK) IPA: /ˈteɪbəl/
• tā'bəl, /ˈteɪbəl/, /"teIb@l/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -eɪbəl

[edit] Etymology

From French table, from Latin tabula (“‘tablet’”).

[edit] Noun

table (plural tables)

1. An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
2. A flat tray which can be used as a table.
3. A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

     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.

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

   The children were practising multiplication tables.

   Don’t you know your tables?

   Here is a table of natural logarithms.

5. (computing) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
6. (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
7. (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.

[edit] Synonyms

• (computing): grid, vector

[edit] Hypernyms

• (furniture): furniture
• (computing): array

[edit] Derived terms

Look at pages starting with table.

[edit] Related terms

• tablet

[edit] Coordinate terms

• (furniture): chair

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to table (third-person singular simple present tables, present participle tabling, simple past and past participle tabled)

1. To put on a table.
2. (British, Canadian) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table)

   The legislature tabled the amendment, so we will start discussing it now.

3. (US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone.

   The legislature tabled the amendment, so we will not be discussing it until later.

   The motion was tabled ensuring that it would not be taken until a later date.

4. To tabulate; to put into a table.

[edit] Related terms

• tabulate

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• tabula rasa

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: abelt
• ablet
• blate
• bleat

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Noun

table f. (plural tables)

1. Table (item of furniture).
2. The flat surface atop various objects.
3. The flat part of a cut or carved object.
4. (music) Table of a stringed instrument.
5. A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
6. A systematic list of content.

[edit] Related terms

• table des matières
• dessous-de-table

[edit] Verb

table

1. First- and third-person singular indicative present of tabler.
2. First- and third-person singular subjunctive present of tabler.
3. Ordinary second-person singular imperative present of tabler.

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Noun

table

1. checkers (game for two players)