"table" Definition

Definitions for the word "table" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
a memorandum book.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
The company assembled round a table.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. n.
The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. n.
One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
17. n.
The games of backgammon and of draughts.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
18. n.
A circular plate of crown glass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
19. n.
The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
20. n.
A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
21. n.
The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
22. v. t.
To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
23. v. t.
To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
24. v. t.
To supply with food; to feed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
25. v. t.
To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
26. v. t.
To lay or place on a table, as money.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
27. v. t.
In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
28. v. t.
To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
29. v. t.
To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
30. v. i.
To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
31. n.
1 flat surface on a leg or legs, used for eating, working at, etc. 2 a food provided in a household (keeps a good table). B group seated for dinner etc. 3 a set of facts or figures in columns etc. (table of contents). B matter contained in this. C = *multiplication table. v. (-ling) 1 bring forward for discussion etc. At a meeting. 2 esp. Us postpone consideration of (a matter). at table taking a meal at a table. On the table offered for discussion. Turn the tables (often foll. By on) reverse circumstances to one''s advantage (against). Under the table colloq. 1 very drunk.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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