Alternative forms

• tyebble (Geordie)

Etymology

A table (furniture)

A table of characters in the Arabic alphabet

Inherited from Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#TABLECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#TABLE table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#TABLECategory:English terms derived from Old English#TABLE tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Germanic languages#TABLECategory:English undefined derivations#TABLE borrowing of LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#TABLE tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#TABLE table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavlaCategory:English doublets#TABLE.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tāʹbəl, IPA^(key): /ˈteɪbl̩/Category:English 2-syllable words#TABLECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TABLE
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈt(ʰ)eɪbɫ̩]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TABLE

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  • (US) IPA^(key): [ˈtʰeɪb(ə)ɫ]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TABLE

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  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈtʰæɪbəɫ]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TABLE

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  • (Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈtʰeːb(ə)ɫ]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TABLE
    • (dialectal) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛːb(ə)ɫ]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TABLE
  • (Indic) IPA^(key): [ˈʈeːbɨl], [-äl]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TABLE
• Rhymes: -eɪbəlCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪbəl#TABLECategory:Rhymes:English/eɪbəl/2 syllables#TABLE
• Hyphenation: ta‧ble

Noun

table (plural tables)Category:English lemmas#TABLECategory:English nouns#TABLECategory:English countable nouns#TABLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TABLECategory:Pages with entries#TABLECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TABLE

2. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#TABLE) 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.

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      • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

        He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.

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      • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

        A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].

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   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.

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   5. (metonymicCategory:English metonyms#TABLE) A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
   6. A service of Holy Communion.
   7. (backgammonCategory:en:Backgammon#TABLE) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
   8. A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
3. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:

     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?

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   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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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   1. (pokerCategory:en:Poker#TABLE, metonymicCategory:English metonyms#TABLE) The lineup of players at a given table.

      That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour eventCategory:English terms with usage examples#TABLE

   2. (roleplaying gamesCategory:en:Role-playing games#TABLE, metonymicCategory:English metonyms#TABLE) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
   3. (waitstaff, metonymicCategory:English metonyms#TABLE) A group of diners at a given table or tables.

      Table 9 wants another round of beers.Category:English terms with usage examples#TABLE

      John always gets the best tips because he gets the best tables! It's not fair!Category:English terms with usage examples#TABLE

4. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
   1. A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
      • 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books, Icon Books, →ISBN, page 69:

        I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
        And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation.
        Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
        Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

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   2. A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.

      The children were practising multiplication tables.Category:English terms with usage examples#TABLE

      Don’t you know your tables?Category:English terms with usage examples#TABLE

      Here is a table of natural logarithms.Category:English terms with usage examples#TABLE

   3. (computingCategory:en:Computing#TABLE, chiefly databasesCategory:en:Databases#TABLE) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
   4. (sportsCategory:en:Sports#TABLE) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
      • 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:

        On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table.

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5. (musicCategory:en:Musical instruments#TABLE) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
6. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
7. A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
8. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#TABLE, biblicalCategory:en:Bible#TABLE) A writing tablet.

Verb

table (third-person singular simple present tables, present participle tabling, simple past and past participle tabled)Category:English lemmas#TABLECategory:English verbs#TABLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TABLECategory:Pages with entries#TABLECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TABLE

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

   to table fines

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4. (now rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#TABLE) 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. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#TABLE) 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.]

   Synonyms: moot, proposeCategory:English links with manual fragments#TABLE

   • 2019 January 16, Heather Stewart, Daniel Boffey, The Guardian:

     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.

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10. (chiefly USCategory:American English#TABLE) 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.

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

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11. (metonymicCategory:English metonyms#TABLE) To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
13. (carpentryCategory:en:Carpentry#TABLE, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#TABLE) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. [18th–19th c.]
15. 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. (pokerCategory:en:Poker#TABLE, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#TABLE) To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
18. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#TABLE) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.

See also

• tabula rasa

References

• table (parliamentary procedure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ablet, Taleb, belta, blate, bleat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tabl/Category:French 1-syllable words#TABLECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#TABLE

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• Rhymes: -ablCategory:Rhymes:French/abl#TABLECategory:Rhymes:French/abl/1 syllable#TABLE

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#TABLECategory:French terms derived from Old French#TABLE table, from LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Latin#TABLECategory:French terms derived from Latin#TABLE tabula (“tablet”). Doublet of tôle and tauleCategory:French doublets#TABLE.

Etymology 2

From the verb tabler.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• balte, bêlât

Etymology

Derived from EnglishCategory:Hawaiian Creole terms derived from English#TABLE table.

Noun

tableCategory:Hawaiian Creole lemmas#TABLECategory:Hawaiian Creole nouns#TABLECategory:Hawaiian Creole entries with incorrect language header#TABLECategory:Pages with entries#TABLECategory:Pages with 7 entries#TABLE

1. (countableCategory:Hawaiian Creole countable nouns#TABLE) table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)
   • 2000, “Matthew 15”, in Joseph Grimes, transl., Da Jesus Book: Hawaii Pidgin New Testament‎, Wycliffe Bible Translators, →ISBN, page 47:

     She say, “Dass right, Boss. But eh, even da dogs unda da table eat wat fall down from da table, yeah?”

     “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs can eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table,” she replied.

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Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From a combination of Old FrenchCategory:Middle English terms borrowed from Old French#TABLECategory:Middle English terms derived from Old French#TABLE table and Old EnglishCategory:Middle English terms inherited from Old English#TABLECategory:Middle English terms derived from Old English#TABLE tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula, both from LatinCategory:Middle English terms derived from Latin#TABLE tabula.