table

noun

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

   “Set that dish on the table over there, please.”

   “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.”

   “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,[…].”

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

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

5. (countable, metonymically)Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
6. (countable)Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
7. (countable)Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
8. (countable)Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
9. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

   “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.”

10. (metonymically)A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

    “That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event”

11. (metonymically)A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
12. (metonymically)A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

    “Table 9 wants another round of beers.”

    “John always gets the best tips because he gets the best tables! It's not fair!”

13. A two-dimensional presentation of data.

    “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.”

14. A two-dimensional presentation of data.

    “The children were practising multiplication tables.”

    “Don’t you know your tables?”

    “Here is a table of natural logarithms.”

15. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
16. A two-dimensional presentation of data.

    “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.”

17. The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
18. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
19. A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
20. (obsolete)A writing tablet.

verb

1. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.

   “to table fines”

2. (archaic)To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.

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

3. (obsolete)To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.

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

4. To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.

   “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.”

5. (US)To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).

   “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.”

6. (metonymically)To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
7. (obsolete)To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
8. To put on a table.

   “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.”

9. (colloquial)To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
10. To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.