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English Dictionary: table by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
table
n
  1. a set of data arranged in rows and columns; "see table 1"
    Synonym(s): table, tabular array
  2. a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs; "it was a sturdy table"
  3. a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it; "I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant"
  4. flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water"
    Synonym(s): mesa, table
  5. a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game; "he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks"
  6. food or meals in general; "she sets a fine table"; "room and board"
    Synonym(s): board, table
v
  1. hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn: postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off]
  2. arrange or enter in tabular form
    Synonym(s): table, tabularize, tabularise, tabulate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Inking \Ink"ing\, a.
      Supplying or covering with ink.
  
      {Inking roller}, a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink
            over forms of type, copperplates, etc.
  
      {Inking trough} [or] {table}, a trough or table from which
            the inking roller receives its ink.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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. [bd]The names .
            . . written on his tables.[b8] --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. [bd]Painted in a
            table plain.[b8] --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, a list of the elementary substances with
                  their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Table \Ta"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tableed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Tableing}.]
      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 board hems in the skirts and bottoms of
            (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached
            to the boltrope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Table \Ta"ble\, v. i.
      To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [Obs.]
      [bd]He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with
      the beasts.[b8] --South.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   table
  
      A collection of {records} in a {relational database}.
  
      (1997-06-04)
  
  
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