Dictionary Definition
table
Noun
1 a set of data arranged in rows and columns;
"see table 1" [syn: tabular
array]
2 a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top
that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs; "it was a
sturdy table"
3 a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal
laid out on it; "I reserved a table at my favorite
restaurant"
4 flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was
relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley
for water" [syn: mesa]
5 a company of people assembled at a table for a
meal or game; "he entertained the whole table with his witty
remarks"
6 food or meals in general; "she sets a fine
table"; "room and board" [syn: board] v : hold back to a later
time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn: postpone, prorogue, hold over,
put
over, shelve,
set
back, defer, remit, put off]
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- 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.
- Don’t you know your tables?
- The children were practising multiplication tables.
- A lookup table, most often a vector.
- The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
Related terms
Translations
item of furniture
- Albanian: tryezë
- Arabic: ,
- Bosnian: stol, sto
- Bulgarian: маса
- Catalan: taula
- Chinese: 桌子 (zhuōzi)
- Croatian: stol
- Czech: stůl
- Danish: bord
- Dutch: tafel
- Esperanto: tablo
- Finnish: pöytä
- French: table
- German: Tisch
- Greek: τραπέζι
- Hebrew: שולחן
- Hindi: मेज़ (mez)
- Hungarian: asztal
- Icelandic: borð
- Indonesian: meja
- Irish: bord , tábla
- Italian: tavola, tavolo
- Japanese: 机, テーブル
- Korean: 테이블 (teibeul)
- Kurdish: mase , mêze ,
- Lao: (to')
- Latin: mensa
- Latvian: galds
- Lithuanian: stalas
- Malay: meja
- Malayalam: (mesha)
- Maltese: mejda
- Mongolian: ширээ (širêê)
- Norwegian: bord
- Persian: (miz)
- Polish: stół
- Portuguese: mesa
- Romanian: masă
- Russian: стол
- Sardinian: mesa
- Scottish Gaelic: bòrd , clàr
- Serbian:
- Slovak: stôl
- Slovene: miza
- Spanish: mesa
- Swedish: bord
- Telugu: బల్ల (balla)
- Turkish: masa
- Urdu: (mez)
flat tray that can be used as a table
grid of data in rows and columns
- Bulgarian: таблица
- Czech: tabulka
- Danish: tabel
- Dutch: tabel
- Finnish: taulukko
- French: tableau
- German: Tabelle
- Greek: πίνακας
- Hungarian: táblázat
- Japanese: 表
- Latvian: tabula
- Lithuanian: lentelė
- Norwegian: tabell
- Polish: tabela
- Portuguese: tabela
- Romanian: tabel
- Russian: таблица (tablítsa)
- Scottish Gaelic: bòrd , clàr
- Slovak: tabuľka
- Slovene: tabela
- Spanish: tabla
- Swedish: tabell
- Telugu: పట్టిక (pattika)
- Turkish: cetvel, tablo
collection of arithmetic calculations
- Bulgarian: таблица (tablítsa) , multiplication table: таблица за умножение (tablítsa za umnožénie)
- Danish: tabel
- Dutch: tafel , vermenigvuldigingstafels f|p, rekentafels f|p
- Finnish: taulu, taulukko
- German: Tabelle
- Hungarian: táblázat
- Japanese: 表
- Norwegian: tabell
- Polish: tabela
- Russian: таблица (tablítsa)
- Scottish Gaelic: bòrd , clàr
- Slovak: tabuľka
- Spanish: tablas
- Swedish: tabell
- Turkish: cetvel, tablo
computing: a lookup table
- Japanese: 配列
music: the top of a stringed instrument
Verb
- To put on a table.
- In the context of "UK|Canadian English": To propose for
discussion (from to
put on the table)
- The legislature tabled the amendment, so we will start discussing it now.
- To delay, or permanently postpone a motion before a
meeting.
- The motion was tabled ensuring that it would not be taken until a later date.
- To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
- The legislature tabled the amendment, so we will not be discussing it until later.
- To tabulate; to put into a table.
Related terms
to put on a table
- Dutch: op tafel zetten, de tafel dekken sense to prepare a table for a meal
- Finnish: panna pöydälle
- French: mettre sur la table
- Japanese: sense to put a object on a table テーブルに置く; sense to prepare a table for a meal 食事の支度をする
- Norwegian: sense to prepare a table for a meal dekke (på) bordet
- Slovak: prestrieť stôl , prestrieť na stôl sense to prepare a table for a meal
- Spanish: poner sobre la mesa
to propose for discussion
to postpone
- Finnish: siirtää myöhemmäksi
- Japanese: 棚上げにする
to tabulate
- Dutch: tabelleren
- Finnish: taulukoida
- Japanese: 表に書く
- Spanish: tabular
See also
- coffee table
- dining table
- dinner table
- division table
- end table
- log table
- multiplication table
- periodic table
- pool table
- timetable
- table of contents
- table tennis
- tabletop
- tableware
- tabula rasa
- talk somebody under the table
- water table
French
Pronunciation
Noun
fr-noun fRelated terms
Verb
tableExtensive Definition
Table may refer to:
- Table (furniture), a piece of furniture
- To Table (parliamentary), to postpone or to submit for consideration
- Tables (board game), a class of board games similar to backgammon
- Table diamond cut, a geometry type in diamond design
- Art Table - usually for oranges and other fruit to be drawn.
Mathematics and Information Technology
- Table (information), a means of displaying information in a matrix, e.g.,
- Table (database), a set of data in a database
- Arrays are called tables in some programming languages.
- Tables (software), a Mac OS X spreadsheet application.
Geology and Geography
- Water table, in geology, the upper limit of abundant groundwater
- A table mountain is a geographical feature involving any flat topped mountain and a number of places which take this as a name, most famously Table Mountain near Cape Town, South Africa.
- A table land is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat open country and commonly called a plateau.
- The Table, a volcanic tuya in British Columbia, Canada
See also
table in German: Tafel
table in French: Table (homonymie)
table in Korean: 테이블
table in Indonesian: Tabel
table in Dutch: Tafel
table in Japanese: テーブル
table in Polish: Stół (ujednoznacznienie)
table in Portuguese: Tabela
(desambiguação)
table in Romanian: Tabel
(dezambiguizare)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Domesday Book, account, account book, address
book, adjourn, adversaria, album, alkali flat, alluvial
plain, ambo, annals, annual, appointment calendar,
appointment schedule, bar,
basin, bench, billiard table, blankbook, blotter, blueprint, board, bottomland, bowling green,
bread, bread and butter,
bring forward, bring up, brouillon, buffet, bushveld, calendar, campo, card index, cartoon, cashbook, catalog, catalogue, catalogue raisonne,
census, champaign, champaign country,
chart, cheer, chronicle, classified catalog,
coastal plain, coat,
coating, cocktail table,
code, coffee table,
collop, comestible, comestibles, commonplace
book, conference table, console, constitute, contents, continue, copy, correspondence, counter, court calendar,
covering, creature
comfort, cuisine,
cut, daily bread, daybook, dead flat, dead level,
deal, deal table, decree, defer, delay, delineation, delta, desert, design, desk, desk calendar, diagram, diary, digest, diptych, disk, docket, documentation, down, downs, draft, drag out, drawing, dresser, dressing table,
drop-leaf table, earth,
eatables, ebauche, edibles, elevation, enact, enact laws, engagement
book, entertainment, escritoire, esplanade, esquisse, extend, fare, fast food, feast, feed, fell, feuille, figure, filibuster, film, flap, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, floor, foil, fold, food, food and drink, foodstuff, get the floor,
graph, grass veld,
grassland, ground, ground plan, hang fire,
hang up, have the floor, health food, heath, history, hold off, hold over,
hold up, homaloid,
horizontal,
horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal
parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, house plan,
ichnography,
index, ingesta, inventory, itemization, journal, junk food, kill, kitchen stuff, kitchen table,
laboratory table, lamella, lamina, laminated glass,
laminated wood, lampstand, lande, lap, lay aside, lay away, lay by,
lay over, leaf, lectern, ledge, ledger, legislate, letters, level, level line, level plane,
list, llano, lobby through, log, logbook, logroll, loose-leaf notebook,
lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mahogany, mare, meal, mean sea level, meat, membrane, memo book, memorandum
book, memorial, memory
book, mesa, mesilla, mess, moor, moorland, mothball, notebook, offer, open country, ordain, outline, pad, pampa, pampas, pane, panel, parterre, pass, patina, pattern, peel, pellicle, peneplain, petty cashbook,
pigeonhole, pipe
roll, plain, plains, plait, plan, plane, plank, plate, plateau, platform, plating, playa, plot, ply, plywood, pocket, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter,
postpone, prairie, precis, present, proffer, profile, projection, prolong, propose, prorogate, prorogue, protract, provender, provision, provisions, push aside, put
aside, put away, put in force, put in mothballs, put off, put on
ice, put through, railroad through, rasher, recess, record, recording, refection, refreshment, regalement, register, registry, relic, remains, repas, repast, reserve, roll, roll logs, rolls, roster, rota, rough, round table, safety glass,
salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, schema, scheme, scrapbook, scratch pad,
scroll, scum, sea level, sea of grass,
sebkha, secretaire, secretary, set aside, set by,
sheet, shelve, shift off, side table,
sideboard, sideline, skeleton, sketch, skin, slab, slat, sleep on, slice, spiral notebook, spread, stand, stand over, stave off,
stay, steppe, store, stow, stretch out, submit, suspend, sustenance, table mountain,
table of contents, table of organization, table the motion,
tableland, tablet, taboret, tabulation, take a recess,
take the floor, tea table, tea wagon, terrace, thumb index, token, trace, treat, tree veld, trestle table,
triptych, tucker, tundra, turntable, upland, vega, veld, veneer, vestige, veto, viands, victuals, vittles, wafer, waive, water level, weald, wide-open spaces, wold, workbench, workbook, working drawing,
worktable, writing
table, writing tablet, yearbook, yield the
floor