table

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.
A supply of food or entertainment.
A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
A service of Holy Communion.
One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
The lineup of players at a given table.
A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.

verb

To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
To put on a table.
To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.

Pronunciation

tāʹbəl /ˈteɪbl̩/ [ˈt(ʰ)eɪbɫ̩] En-uk-table.ogg [ˈtʰeɪb(ə)ɫ] En-us-table.ogg [ˈtʰæɪbəɫ] en-au-table.ogg [ˈtʰeːb(ə)ɫ] [ˈtɛːb(ə)ɫ]

Word forms

table tables tyebble tabling tabled

Etymology

Inherited 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” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.

Synonyms

Related words

tabulate tabula rasa

Derived words

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