table
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
Noun 4 meanings
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
“Set that dish on the table over there, please.”
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game; a meeting at a table.
A two-dimensional presentation of data; an enumeration of data or contents.
“table of contents, tide table”
Any of various flat surfaces or items with a planar surface.
Verb 4 meanings
To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
“to table fines”
To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
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.”
To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”).
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TABLE at a glance
TABLE has 5 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (T 1 + A 1 + B 3 + L 1 + E 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #920 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with table
All rhymes- ABLE6
- POSSIBLE12
- AVAILABLE14
- DOUBLE9
- RESPONSIBLE15
- TROUBLE9
- IMPOSSIBLE16
- TERRIBLE10
- COMFORTABLE20
- INCREDIBLE15
- CAPABLE13
- UNABLE8
One letter away
- CABLE9
- FABLE10
- GABLE8
- SABLE7
- TABLA7
- HABLE10
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