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table

The English word “table” has 32 meanings listed here.

  1. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
  2. An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
  3. The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
  4. A flat tray which can be used as a table.
  5. A supply of food or entertainment.
  6. A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
  7. A service of Holy Communion.
  8. One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
  9. A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
  10. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
  11. The lineup of players at a given table.
  12. A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
  13. A group of diners at a given table or tables.
  14. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
  15. A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
  16. A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
  17. A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
  18. A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
  19. The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
  20. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
  21. A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
  22. A writing tablet.
  23. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
  24. To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
  25. To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
  26. To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
  27. To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
  28. To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
  29. To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
  30. To put on a table.
  31. To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
  32. To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
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