Table Definition
tābəl
tabled, tables, tabling
noun
tables
A piece of furniture consisting of a flat, horizontal top usually set on legs.
Webster's New World
Such a table set with food for a meal.
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Food served at table; feasting as entertainment.
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The people seated at a table to eat, talk, etc.
Webster's New World
The game of backgammon.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- spread
- things to eat
- meat and drink
- mesa
- tabular array
- board
- index
- compendium
- statistics
- tabular illustration
- appendix
- spreadsheet
- register
- record
- report
verb
tabled, tables, tabling
To put on a table.
Webster's New World
To make a list or compact arrangement of; tabulate.
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To postpone indefinitely the discussion or consideration of (a legislative bill, motion, etc.)
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To submit for discussion or consideration.
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Synonyms:
adjective
Of, for, or on a table.
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Fit for serving at table.
Table salt.
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idiom
on the table
- Up for discussion:
Her new offer is on the table.
- Put aside for consideration at a later date.
American Heritage
under the table
- In secret.
- Into a completely intoxicated state:
drank themselves under the table.
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at table
- at a meal
Webster's New World
drink someone under the table
- to outlast someone, as in a drinking competition, esp., to the point where he or she becomes unconscious
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on the table
- postponed or shelved
- presented or open for discussion, consideration, etc.
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Table
Origin of Table
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From Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula, ("table, board"; also as tæfl, tæfel), an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart"). Reinforced in Middle English by Old French table, from the same Latin source.
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old French from Latin tabula board
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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