Table

From Fresh Dictionary

English

Pronunciation

• tā'bəl, /ˈteɪbəl/, /"teIb@l/

Etymology

From French table, from Latin tabula (tablet).

Noun

Table (plural Tables)

1. An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground 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.

Translations

item of furniture

flat tray that can be used as a table

grid of data in rows and columns

collection of arithmetic calculations

Translations to be checked

• Basque: mahai
• Indonesian: meja
• Italian: tavola f. (2), tavolo m. (1)
• Latin: tabula f. (2,3,4)

Verb

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

1. To put on a table.
2. (mostly British) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table)
3. (mostly US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone.

   "The legislature tabled the amendment."

4. To tabulate; to put into a table.

Translations

to put on a table

to propose for discussion

postpone

tabulate

Related terms

• dining table
• dinner table
• division table
• log table
• multiplication table
• periodic table
• pool table
• timetable
• table tennis
• tablet
• tableware
• tabulate
• water table

See also

• tablet
• tabula rasa

French

Noun

Table f. (plural Tables)

1. table (item of furniture)ang:table

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