table

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English

Alternative forms

• tyebble (Geordie)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tāʹbəl, IPA^(key): /ˈteɪbl̩/
• Rhymes: -eɪbəl
• Hyphenation: ta‧ble

Noun

table (plural tables)

1. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
   1. An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.

      Set that dish on the table over there, please.
   2. The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
   3. A flat tray which can be used as a table.
   4. A supply of food or entertainment.

      The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.

   5. A service of Holy Communion.
   6. (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
   7. A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
2. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
   1. (poker, metonymically) The lineup of players at a given table.

   2. (roleplaying games, metonymically) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
   3. (waitstaff, metonymically) A group of diners at a given table or tables.

3. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
   1. A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
   2. A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.

   3. (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
   4. (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
4. (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
5. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.

Synonyms

• (computing): grid, vector

Hypernyms

• (computing): array
• (furniture): furniture

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• (furniture): chair

Derived terms

English terms starting with “table”

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Assamese: টেবুল (tebul)
• → Bengali: টেবিল (ṭebil)
• → Gujarati: ટેબલ (ṭebal)
• → Japanese: テーブル (tēburu)
• → Korean: 테이블 (teibeul)
• → Maori: tēpu
• → Nepali: टेबुल (ṭebul)
• → Odia: ଟେବଲ୍ (ṭebal)
• → Sylheti: ꠐꠦꠛꠥꠟ (ṭebul)
• → Telugu: టేబులు (ṭēbulu)

Translations

References

• table on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

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

2. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. [from 15th c.]

4. (now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. [from 15th c.]
   • 'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton

     At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni

6. (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. [17th–19th c.]
   • c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew

     tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation

8. (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda. [from 17th c.]
10. (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something). [from 19th c.]

    The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.

    The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.

12. (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. [18th–19th c.]
14. To put on a table. [from 19th c.]
    • 1833 Thomas Carlyle, letter to his Mother, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson

      [A]fter some clatter offered us a rent of five pounds for the right to shoot here, and even tabled the cash that moment, and would not pocket it again.

16. (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.

Related terms

• tabulate

Translations

See also

• tabula rasa

References

• table (parliamentary procedure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ablet, Taleb, belta, blate, bleat

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tabl/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French table, from Latin tabula (“tablet”). Doublet of tôle and taule.

Noun

table f (plural tables)

1. table (item of furniture)

2. flat surface atop various objects
3. flat part of a cut or carved object
4. (music) table of a stringed instrument
5. matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns
6. systematic list of content

Derived terms

Related terms

• tableau
• tabulaire
• tabulation

Descendants

• Louisiana Creole: latab
• → Bulgarian: табла (tabla)
• → Macedonian: табла (tabla)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: табла

  Latin script: tabla

Etymology 2

From the verb tabler.

Verb

table

1. inflection of tabler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “table”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• balte, bêlât

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tabel, tabil, tabul, tabyl, tabyle, tabyll, tabulle, tabele, tabill

Etymology

From a combination of Old French table and Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula, both from Latin tabula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːbəl/, /ˈtaːblə/

Noun

table (plural tables or (early) tablen)

1. A table (furniture with a level surface):
   1. The top of a table (flat surface of a table for use)
   2. (figurative) A location where one's soul receives nutrition.
   3. (figurative) A serving or portion of food.
2. A level writing surface:
   1. A tablet, especially a portable one for writing on.
   2. An inscribed memorial, dedication, message, or other text; a sign or monument.
   3. (biblical) The physical Ten Commandments handed down from heaven.
3. Any (relatively) level surface:
   1. A wooden pole or board (especially behind an altar).
   2. The board of a board game (often divided in two).
   3. A level, floor or storey (of a building)
   4. Such a surface used for painting.
   5. (rare) A flat piece of arable land.
   6. (rare, palmistry) A portion of the hand surrounded by palm lines.
4. A glossary or almanac; a reference work or chart of data.
5. A board game similar to backgammon.
6. (rare) A flat bone or fused set of bones.

Derived terms

• rounde table, table rounde

Related terms

• tablement
• tablen
• tabler
• tablet

Descendants

• English: table (see there for further descendants)
• Geordie English: tyeble
• Scots: table
• → Welsh: tabl

References

• “tāble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin tabula.

Noun

table oblique singular, f (oblique plural tables, nominative singular table, nominative plural tables)

1. table (furniture)

Descendants

• French: table
  • Louisiana Creole: latab
  • → Bulgarian: табла (tabla)
  • → Macedonian: табла (tabla)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: табла

    Latin script: tabla

• Walloon: tåve
• → Irish: tábla
• → Middle English: table, tabel, tabil, tabul, tabyl, tabyle, tabyll, tabulle, tabele, tabill
  • English: table (see there for further descendants)
  • Geordie English: tyeble
  • Scots: table
  • → Welsh: tabl

See also

• nape

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek τάβλι (távli).

Noun

table f pl (plural only)

1. plural of tablă
2. backgammon

Declension

Spanish

Verb

table

1. inflection of tablar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative