Definition of "table" in İngilizce

noun

1. (countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

2. A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

3. A two-dimensional presentation of data.

4. (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.

5. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.

6. A flat gravestone supported on pillars.

7. (obsolete, biblical) A writing tablet.

verb

1. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.

   • to table fines

2. (now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.

   • 'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni

3. (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.

   • c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation

4. (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.

5. (chiefly US) 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.
   • The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.

6. (metonymic) To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.

7. (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.

8. To put on a table.

   • 1833 Thomas Carlyle, letter to his Mother, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson [A]fter some clatter offered us a rent of five pounds for the right to shoot here, and even tabled the cash that moment, and would not pocket it again.

9. (poker, colloquial) To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.

10. (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.