English Dictionary: table | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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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 (1997-06-04) |