table

Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.countable

• Set that dish on the table over there, please.

Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; A flat tray which can be used as a table.countable

Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; A supply of food or entertainment.broadlycountable

• The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.

Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.countablemetonymically

Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; A service of Holy Communion.countable

Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.countable

Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into an inner and outer table.countable

Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.; One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into an inner and outer table.countablehistoricalplural

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

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A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game; a meeting at a table.; The act of assembling to eat; a gathering to eat, especially at a restaurant.uncountable

• Time to come to table.
• Join us at the table I booked at the restaurant.

To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.

• to table fines

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

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

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

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

To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.

• In a raucous Commons, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, confirmed he had tabled a formal motion of confidence in the government, backed by other opposition leaders, which MPs would vote on on Wednesday.

To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).US

• 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.

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

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

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 p

To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.colloquial

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