Table: English to English |
Table (n.) A circular plate of crown glass. |
Table (n.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc. |
Table (n.) a memorandum book. |
Table (n.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane. |
Table (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab. |
Table (n.) 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. |
Table (n.) A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet |
Table (n.) 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. |
Table (n.) 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. |
Table (n.) 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 correspondin |
Table (n.) Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced. |
Table (n.) Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table. |
Table (n.) 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. |
Table (n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table. |
Table (n.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium. |
Table (n.) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand. |
Table (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played. |
Table (n.) The company assembled round a table. |
Table (n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts. |
Table (n.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened. |
Table (n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles. |
Table (v. i.) To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. |
Table (v. t.) 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. |
Table (v. t.) To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. |
Table (v. t.) To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one. |
Table (v. t.) To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines. |
Table (v. t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf. |
Table (v. t.) To lay or place on a table, as money. |
Table (v. t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope. |
Table (v. t.) To supply with food; to feed. |