tabulate

To tabulate is to arrange data or information in columns and tables.

(verb)

When you do a study and find out how much a pack of notebook paper costs in eight different stores and then you create a table with the name of the store along one side and the prices and sizes of paper packs along the other, this is an example of a time when you tabulate the information learned in your study.

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See tabulate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb tabulated, tabulating

to put (facts, statistics, etc.) in a table or columns or otherwise arrange systematically

Origin: < LL tabulatus, pp. of tabulare: see tablature

adjective

  1. having a flat surface
  2. having or made of thin, horizontal plates, as some corals

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See tabulate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb tab·u·lat·ed, tab·u·lat·ing, tab·u·lates
  1. To arrange in tabular form; condense and list.
  2. To cut or form with a plane surface.
adjective (tăbˈyə-lĭt, -lātˌ)
Having a plane surface.

Origin:

Origin: Latin tabula, writing

Origin: + -ate1

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  • tabˌu·laˈtion noun

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