Tabling

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form..

Definitions by Sense

1. A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.
2. (carpentry) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
3. (nautical) A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
4. (US) A setting-aside of a topic from discussion.
5. (UK) The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
6. (metonymic) Representing a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
7. (obsolete) board; support
8. (programming) The uses of a table that contains the results of subproblems which can then be used later in the solving of a problem when the same subproblem arises again.

Example Sentences

On the luffs and after leaches of jibs the tabling ought to be 3 inches, on the foot 1 inches

The Woodstock Town Board dropped the controversial anti-discrimination ordinance after a meeting marked by a series of tablings and withdrawals of various resolutions.

My daughter hath there already now of me ten poundes, which I account to be given for her tabling : after this ten poundes will follow another, for her apparel

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