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Table   /tˈeɪbəl/   Listen
noun
Table  n.  
1.
A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab. "A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble."
2.
A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet; pl. A memorandum book. "The names... written on his tables." "And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest." "And stand there with your tables to glean The golden sentences."
3.
Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced. "Painted in a table plain." "The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which, with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don Philip, is a most incomparable table." "St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant."
4.
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. Specifically:
(a)
(Bibliog.) 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.
(b)
(Chem.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, the a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.; the periodic table of the elements.
(c)
(Mathematics, Science and Technology) 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; a table of logarithms, etc.
(d)
(Palmistry) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand. "Mistress of a fairer table Hath not history for fable."
5.
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. "We may again Give to our tables meat." "The nymph the table spread."
6.
Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.
7.
The company assembled round a table. "I drink the general joy of the whole table."
8.
(Anat.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium.
9.
(Arch.) 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.
10.
(Games)
(a)
The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
(b)
One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table.
(c)
pl. The games of backgammon and of draughts. (Obs.) "This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice."
11.
(Glass Manuf.) A circular plate of crown glass. "A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an average nine pounds."
12.
(Jewelry) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
13.
(Persp.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; called also perspective plane.
14.
(Mach.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.
Bench table, Card table, Communion table, Lord's table, etc. See under Bench, Card, etc.
Raised table (Arch. & Sculp.), a raised or projecting member of a flat surface, large in proportion to the projection, and usually rectangular, especially intended to receive an inscription or the like.
Roller table (Horology), a flat disk on the arbor of the balance of a watch, holding the jewel which rolls in and out of the fork at the end of the lever of the escapement.
Round table. See Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Table anvil, a small anvil to be fastened to a table for use in making slight repairs.
Table base. (Arch.) Same as Water table.
Table bed, a bed in the form of a table.
Table beer, beer for table, or for common use; small beer.
Table bell, a small bell to be used at table for calling servants.
Table cover, a cloth for covering a table, especially at other than mealtimes.
Table diamond, a thin diamond cut with a flat upper surface.
Table linen, linen tablecloth, napkins, and the like.
Table money (Mil. or Naut.), an allowance sometimes made to officers over and above their pay, for table expenses.
Table rent (O. Eng. Law), rent paid to a bishop or religious, reserved or appropriated to his table or housekeeping.
Table shore (Naut.), a low, level shore.
Table talk, conversation at table, or at meals.
Table talker, one who talks at table.
Table tipping, Table turning, certain movements of tables, etc., attributed by some to the agency of departed spirits, and by others to the development of latent vital or spriritual forces, but more commonly ascribed to the muscular force of persons in connection with the objects moved, or to physical force applied otherwise.
Tables of a girder or Tables of a chord (Engin.), the upper and lower horizontal members.
To lay on the table, in parliamentary usage, to lay, as a report, motion, etc., on the table of the presiding officer, that is, to postpone the consideration of, by a vote; also called to table. It is a tactic often used with the intention of postponing consideration of a motion indefinitely, that is, to kill the motion.
To serve tables (Script.), to provide for the poor, or to distribute provisions for their wants.
To turn the tables, to change the condition or fortune of contending parties; a metaphorical expression taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming.
Twelve tables (Rom. Antiq.), a celebrated body of Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed 450 years before Christ, on the return of deputies or commissioners who had been sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions. They consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions of other nations, partly of such as were altered and accommodated to the manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and mainly, perhaps, of laws and usages under their ancient kings.



verb
Table  v. t.  (past & past part. tabled; pres. part. tabling)  
1.
To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
2.
To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. (Obs.) "Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation."
3.
To supply with food; to feed. (Obs.)
4.
(Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
5.
To lay or place on a table, as money.
6.
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.
7.
To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
8.
(Naut.) To make broad hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.



Table  v. i.  To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. (Obs.) "He... was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts."






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... the hills away back in the wilderness, sometimes rushing with a roar over rocks and through gorges, sometimes plunging down precipices, and sometimes moving with a deep and sluggish current across a broad sweep of table land. For several miles back of the lake, and until a few rods of the shore, it is a calm, deep river. It then rushes down a steep, shelving rock some twenty feet into a great rocky basin; then down again over a shelving rock in a fall of twenty ...
— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond

... blood courses not through my veins as in the days of my youth, sit on the great porch of Fairlee watching the sails on the distant bay, where its gleaming waters meet the mouth of the creek that runs at the foot of Fairlee. A julep there is on the table beside me, flavoured with mint gathered by the hands of John Cotton early in the morning, while the dew was still upon it, from the finest bank in all ...
— The Tory Maid • Herbert Baird Stimpson

... censure, which they know they have deserved. Be upon your guard against such people: yet I am not of opinion, that you should wholly reject them, or altogether despise their courtesy. If they should invite you to their table, refuse it not; and yet less refuse their presents of small value, such as are usually made in the Indies by the Portuguese to each other, and which one cannot refuse without giving an affront; as, for example, fruits and drinks. ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI. (of 18) - The Life of St. Francis Xavier • John Dryden

... be seen from the above, that the white population of the parishes in table I exceeds the slaves nearly three to one; while, in the parishes in table II, the slaves exceed the whites ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various

... was hidden from the station by the tiny hill, as were the half dozen other buildings tributary to Chazy Junction. As the wagon drew up before the long piazza which extended along the front of the little frame inn they saw a man in shabby gray seated at a small table with some bread and a glass of milk before him. It was their unrecognized guest of the night—the uninvited lodger on the rear platform—but he did not raise his eyes or appear to notice ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation • Edith Van Dyne


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