table

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
2. (countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
3. (countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
4. (countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
5. (countable, metonymically) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
6. (countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
7. (countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
8. (countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
9. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
10. (metonymically) A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
11. (metonymically) A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
12. (metonymically) A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
13. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
14. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
15. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
16. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
17. The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
18. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
19. A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
20. (obsolete) A writing tablet.

Verb

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

Synonyms

desk

chart

💹

list

board

tabulation

postpone

schedule

stand

tabulate

index

tablet

defer

shelf

put off

platform

meal

tabular array

frame

diagram

array

bed

🛏️

tabularize

catalog

food

🍽️

mesa

tabularise

shelve

bench

desktop

hold over

watch

⌚

tab

set back

tableau

put over

register

remit

prorogue

roll

enlist

draft

chalkboard

discard

directory

chair

🪑

dining table

jogged

itemize

diet

catalogue

Translations

table

mesa

Tisch

tafel

tavola

taula

Tabelle

mesa

tavolo

tableau

🖼️

masa

mensa

τραπέζι

tabla

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈteɪbl̩/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: table

Inherited from Old English: tabele

In summary

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.

Sentences

With clenched fist , he hit the table .

Ripe pears are fit for a queen's table .

I remember how I sat on the table there in the blackness , with patches of green and crimson swimming before my eyes .

The following table displays the distribution of Group Races by racecourses .

The resolutions for all of these formats are summarized in the table below .