Meaning

(countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
2. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
3. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
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.
6. A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
7. (obsolete, biblical) A writing tablet.
8. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.

Example Sentences

Alas poore Yorick […] VVhere be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flaſhes of Merriment that were wont to ſet the Table on a Rore?

The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.

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'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni

c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation

In a raucous Commons, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, confirmed he had tabled a formal motion of confidence in the government, backed by other opposition leaders, which MPs would vote on on Wednesday.

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.

Word Forms

• tables
• tyebble
• tabling
• tabled

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Use table when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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