Definition of Table

Table

A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.

A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet

a memorandum book.

Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced.

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.

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.

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

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.

The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.

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.

Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.

The company assembled round a table.

One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium.

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.

The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.

One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table.

The games of backgammon and of draughts.

A circular plate of crown glass.

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

A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane.

The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.

To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.

To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.

To supply with food; to feed.

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

To lay or place on a table, as money.

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.

To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.

To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.

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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Carlin

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Voltaire

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Rodney Dangerfield

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Evelyn Waugh

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka