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table ['tebl.]
n. 桌子, 餐桌, 工作台, 铭文, 表格, 表, 高原, 平地层
vt. 搁置, 嵌合, 制表, 把...列入议事日程
[计] 表格, 模拟运算表
[医] 表, 桌, 台, [骨]板
[经] 表格, 项目表
table
[ noun ]
- a set of data arranged in rows and columns
- a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
- a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it
- flat tableland with steep edges
- a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
- food or meals in general
<noun.group>
see table 1
<noun.artifact>
it was a sturdy table
<noun.artifact>
I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant
<noun.object>
the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water
<noun.group>
he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks
<noun.food>
she sets a fine table
room and board
- hold back to a later time
- arrange or enter in tabular form
<verb.stative> defer hold over postpone prorogue put off put over remit set back shelve
let's postpone the exam
<verb.creation> tabularise tabularize tabulate
Table \Ta"ble\, n. [F., fr. L. tabula a board, tablet, a
painting. Cf. {Tabular}, {Taffrail}, {Tavern}.]
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. --Sandys.
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.'' --Chaucer.
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. --Ex. xxxiv.
1.
And stand there with your tables to glean
The golden sentences. --Beau. & Fl.
3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a
drawing, or the like, may be produced. ``Painted in a
table plain.'' --Spenser.
The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which,
with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don
Philip, is a most incomparable table. --Evelyn.
St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a
poor peasant. --Addison.
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.
(c) (Mach.) 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, 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. --B. Jonson.
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. --Shak.
The nymph the table spread. --Pope.
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. --Shak.
8. (Anat.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of
compact bone, separated by diplo["e], 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.]
--Chaucer.
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,
That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice.
--Shak.
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. --Ure.
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. --Burrill.
{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. --Acts vi. 2.
{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. --Burrill.
Table \Ta"ble\, 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.'' --South.
Table \Ta"ble\ (t[=a]"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tabled}
(t[=a]"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Tabling} (t[=a]"bling).]
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.
--Bacon.
3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] --Milton.
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. --Carlyle.
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.
painting. Cf. {Tabular}, {Taffrail}, {Tavern}.]
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. --Sandys.
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.'' --Chaucer.
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. --Ex. xxxiv.
1.
And stand there with your tables to glean
The golden sentences. --Beau. & Fl.
3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a
drawing, or the like, may be produced. ``Painted in a
table plain.'' --Spenser.
The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which,
with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don
Philip, is a most incomparable table. --Evelyn.
St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a
poor peasant. --Addison.
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.
(c) (Mach.) 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, 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. --B. Jonson.
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. --Shak.
The nymph the table spread. --Pope.
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. --Shak.
8. (Anat.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of
compact bone, separated by diplo["e], 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.]
--Chaucer.
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,
That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice.
--Shak.
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. --Ure.
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. --Burrill.
{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. --Acts vi. 2.
{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. --Burrill.
Table \Ta"ble\, 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.'' --South.
Table \Ta"ble\ (t[=a]"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tabled}
(t[=a]"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Tabling} (t[=a]"bling).]
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.
--Bacon.
3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] --Milton.
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. --Carlyle.
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.
Platen \Plat"en\, n. [F. platine, fr. plat flat. See {Plate},
and cf. {Platin}.] (Mach.)
(a) The part of a printing press which presses the paper
against the type and by which the impression is made.
(b) Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the
paper rests to receive an impression.
(c) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on
which the work is fastened, and presented to the action
of the tool; -- also called {table}.
Table \Ta"ble\, n. [F., fr. L. tabula a board, tablet, a
painting. Cf. {Tabular}, {Taffrail}, {Tavern}.]
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. --Sandys.
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.'' --Chaucer.
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. --Ex. xxxiv.
1.
And stand there with your tables to glean
The golden sentences. --Beau. & Fl.
3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a
drawing, or the like, may be produced. ``Painted in a
table plain.'' --Spenser.
The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which,
with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don
Philip, is a most incomparable table. --Evelyn.
St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a
poor peasant. --Addison.
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.
(c) (Mach.) 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, 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. --B. Jonson.
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. --Shak.
The nymph the table spread. --Pope.
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. --Shak.
8. (Anat.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of
compact bone, separated by diplo["e], 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.]
--Chaucer.
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,
That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice.
--Shak.
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. --Ure.
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. --Burrill.
{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. --Acts vi. 2.
{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. --Burrill.
and cf. {Platin}.] (Mach.)
(a) The part of a printing press which presses the paper
against the type and by which the impression is made.
(b) Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the
paper rests to receive an impression.
(c) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on
which the work is fastened, and presented to the action
of the tool; -- also called {table}.
Table \Ta"ble\, n. [F., fr. L. tabula a board, tablet, a
painting. Cf. {Tabular}, {Taffrail}, {Tavern}.]
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. --Sandys.
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.'' --Chaucer.
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. --Ex. xxxiv.
1.
And stand there with your tables to glean
The golden sentences. --Beau. & Fl.
3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a
drawing, or the like, may be produced. ``Painted in a
table plain.'' --Spenser.
The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which,
with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don
Philip, is a most incomparable table. --Evelyn.
St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a
poor peasant. --Addison.
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.
(c) (Mach.) 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, 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. --B. Jonson.
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. --Shak.
The nymph the table spread. --Pope.
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. --Shak.
8. (Anat.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of
compact bone, separated by diplo["e], 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.]
--Chaucer.
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,
That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice.
--Shak.
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. --Ure.
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. --Burrill.
{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. --Acts vi. 2.
{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. --Burrill.
- Although Mr. Siegel is described by some friends as a man who is reluctant to leave any money on the table in a business negotiation, he is anything but a Scrooge in his personal life.
- "Evidence is increasing on the scientific table that change is occurring," said Bob Corell of the National Science Foundation, adding that both natural and human-induced changes could have a broad impact on the future.
- Faculty members say the focus is on the big picture, like ethics questions in the marketplace, not table manners.
- From smart shops in Tokyo to the White House dinner table, water from the mineral springs of Appalachia suddenly has cachet, and West Virginia bottlers are helping quench the thirst of the health-conscious.
- A word processer sits on a table i her living room.
- He acknowledged that many Stasi members were innocent of wrongdoing, but added: "Purposely committed illegal wrongs cannot be allowed to be swept under the table." Horst Ehmke of the main opposition Social Democrats also blasted the suggested amnesty.
- Second, she said, "We are down to problems in this country that can only be resolved by some group giving up something for another. For a long time we solved problems by putting new money on the table.
- Separately, the stock exchange denied a report that it has assembled a published "league table" of firms with the highest number of unsettled transactions.
- Some associates say privately he was driven to the table partly by friction then with the cable-operator directors.
- The transactions by individuals are culled from those reported to the SEC in the previous week ended Friday, no matter when they actually occurred; the table, however, lists the actual dates of the trades.
- Lunching at Sun Valley, Arnie noticed a pair of steel-blue eyes boring into him from the next table.
- It is time for the West to supply Croatia with the mines, anti-tank weapons, and anti-aircraft missiles needed to compel the communists to compromise at the negotiating table.
- The following table shows the weekly lower and upper limits implied by the Fed's tentative 1987 target range for M1.
- But the U.S.-backed Afghan resistance wants Najibullah to relinquish power before it comes to the negotiating table.
- Chai, 23, wore a pink shirt and sat at a table with white flowers and a candle to commemorate those who died in the pro-democracy movement.
- We have followed a reasonably clear strategy, with the right type of people pursuing the right sort of client.' The figures in the table have been compiled by the firms with year-ends adjusted to make the data comparable.
- Failure of negotiations would leave unresolved the problems that forced trading countries to the negotiating table in the first place.
- Bert Lance has no official role at the Democratic convention, but Jesse Jackson will make sure there is a place at the table for the burly Georgia politician declared persona non grata four years ago.
- That led to purchase of a table saw and other equipment, and ultimately to the lathe on which he shapes bowls that have sold for $300 to $750. He once said it took 40 to 50 hours to make one of them.
- At a meeting with students Wednesday at Warsaw University, Walesa said he would defend NZS. "No table can stand on less than three legs.
- Fees average Pounds 4,000. They can be identified by the Boarding % column in our main table. Comparisons of A-level results around the country with average house prices make startling reading.
- Its general direction is likely to be down, as the accompanying table suggests, and the decline could well persist for many months and be substantial.
- Around the table, the dealers from state banks sat mute.
- "If we let the situation persist and the Khmer Rouge gain more ground, they might harden their stance at the negotiating table," said Ek Sereywath, a spokesman in Sihanouk's office in Bangkok.
- But every Conservative seat is at risk. The table gives, in rough order, the seats in which the Tories have the best chance of survival and the 10 best bets for the Liberal Democrats. The author is a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
- He shared a witness table with social workers and a 97-year-old Indianapolis woman who lives on $13 a day in SSI benefits who also testified before the House Select Committee on Aging and the Ways and Means human resources subcommittee.
- Tom West, a sophomore sports medicine major from West Long Branch, N.J., taped feet, iced ankles and treated blisters from a trainer's table off the dance floor.
- Toss again. Oil a gratin or baking dish as large as a roasting pan but suitable for bringing to table.
- Since then, the market has dropped to a 14-year low, triggering efforts by Colombia to bring coffee-trading nations back to the negotiating table to agree a new pact.
- Each time a special occasion brought the family together, Mrs. Xiong would set a place at the dinner table for her absent son.
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