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Pronunciation

Etymology

From French table, from Latin tabula (tablet).

Noun

Singular table

Plural tables

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.
  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 vector.
  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.

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Terms derived from the noun "table"

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Verb

Infinitive to table

Third person singular tables

Simple past tabled

Past participle tabled

Present participle tabling

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. 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.

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Translations

to put on a table
  • Dutch: op tafel zetten, de tafel dekken (to prepare a table for a meal):
  • Finnish: panna pöydälle
  • French: mettre sur la table
  • Japanese: (to put a object on a table): テーブルに置く ja(ja) (tēburu ni oku); (to prepare a table for a meal): 食事の支度をする ja(ja) (shokuji no shitaku wo suru)
  • Norwegian: (to prepare a table for a meal): dekke (på) bordet
  • Slovak: prestrieť stôl , prestrieť na stôl (to prepare a table for a meal):
  • Spanish: poner sobre la mesa
  • Swahili: meza sw(sw)
to propose for discussion
  • Japanese: 議題にする ja(ja) (gidai ni suru), 議題に上げる ja(ja) (gidai ni ageru)
  • Spanish: traer a discusión
  • Swahili: meza sw(sw)
to postpone a motion
  • Japanese: 棚上げにする ja(ja) (tanaage ni suru)
  • Swahili: meza sw(sw)
to postpone
  • Japanese: 棚上げにする ja(ja) (tanaage ni suru)
  • Swahili: meza sw(sw)
to tabulate
  • Dutch: tabelleren
  • Finnish: taulukoida fi(fi)
  • Japanese: 表に書く ja(ja) (hyō ni kaku)
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French

Pronunciation

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.

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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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