table

1. n. A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab. Source: opted

2. n. A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet Source: opted

3. n. a memorandum book. Source: opted

4. n. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced. Source: opted

5. 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. Source: opted

6. 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. Source: opted

7. n. A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc. Source: opted

8. 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 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. Source: opted

9. n. The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand. Source: opted

10. 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. Source: opted

11. n. Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table. Source: opted

12. n. The company assembled round a table. Source: opted

13. n. One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium. Source: opted

14. 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. Source: opted

15. n. The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played. Source: opted

16. n. One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table. Source: opted

17. n. The games of backgammon and of draughts. Source: opted

18. n. A circular plate of crown glass. Source: opted

19. n. The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles. Source: opted

20. n. A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane. Source: opted

21. n. The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened. Source: opted

22. v. t. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines. Source: opted

23. v. t. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. Source: opted

24. v. t. To supply with food; to feed. Source: opted

25. v. t. To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf. Source: opted

26. v. t. To lay or place on a table, as money. Source: opted

27. 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. Source: opted

28. v. t. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one. Source: opted

29. 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. Source: opted

30. v. i. To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. Source: opted

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