Definition of table in English:

table

noun ˈteɪb(ə)lˈteɪbəl

1A piece of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, providing a level surface for eating, writing, or working at.
she put the plate on the table
he rang the restaurant to book a table for lunch
Example sentencesExamples
- Usually four students are placed at a large table, or four individual tables or desks pushed together.
- There was a large marble table in the middle, surrounded by ten chairs.
- I sat at an empty table in the corner, sunglasses still on.
- We were crowded around a single, circular lunch table in the cafeteria.
- Buffy came back up in a fighting stance holding a splintered piece of the table out in front of her.
- Eventually, she resolved to hold her wrist down to the table so that her writing would be legible.
- The woodwork in the show includes large furniture items like tables, benches and screens as well as plates, letters openers and wine corkstoppers.
- Finally reaching an empty table by the window, she sat down hastily.
- He washed dishes and set the tables at a restaurant when he was a junior university student.
- Also in the room was a table with chairs and two small dressers.
- In the middle of each room was a low table with a vase of fresh flowers on it.
- I'll ask them to reserve the table next to us, if you want.
- You can use standard outdoor furniture or built-in tables and chairs, or carry pieces from inside the house for special occasions.
- Dropping her spoon with a clatter, Hope reached across the table to take the piece of paper from her sister.
- Mike leaned back in a folding chair behind a small round table in the corner.
- She looked up as Rachel arrived back at the table, holding a piece of paper in her hands.
- He made occasional furniture pieces such as tables and chairs, as well as picture frames.
- His eyes glittered as we approached the table laden with creams, cakes, pies, and other delectable delicacies.
- Around the edges of the room were pieces of furniture like tables and a few chairs.
- We got one loaf ourselves, and had one piece at a table right outside of the bakery.
Synonyms
bench, board, work surface, worktop, counter, desk, bar, buffet, stand, workbench, worktable, top, horizontal surface, surface
1. 1.1in singular Food provided in a restaurant or household.
  he was reputed to have the finest French table of the time
  Synonyms
  meal, food, fare, diet, board, menu, nourishment, nutriment
  eatables, rations, provisions
  informal spread, grub, chow, eats, nosh
  archaic victuals, vittles, viands
2. 1.2 A group seated at table for a meal.
  the whole table was in gales of laughter
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the end, the table settled on getting a jug of red lemonade and a jug of water.
  Some tables kept looking at me, for some reason, maybe it was my head.
  Everyone at the table seemed to instantly get up, and soon other tables followed suit.
  After he left we discovered that he had insisted on paying for the meal for the whole table.
3. 1.3the table A meeting place or forum for formal discussions held to settle an issue or dispute.
  the negotiating table
  Example sentencesExamples
  Both sides are to return to the table next week to resolve a number of outstanding peripheral issues.
  The ultimate goal for activists is to be invited to the table of the G8 meetings.
  I think we need to get people back to the table, back into discussions, begin to look at where we are.
  Let's just hope that he's not sitting round the table for the negotiations about the forthcoming strike.
  The mayor had to leave early, but he asked me to bring a couple issues to the table.
  Alberta said from the beginning the province should be at the table as Kyoto was negotiated.
  Oh, they told him he could still come in and sit at the conference table in the meeting room if he liked.
  He stormed out from the table and the meeting was concluded with dissatisfaction.
  Then after a few weeks, the two sides would return to the negotiating table to discuss the issues that divide them.
  None sitting around the table have left the union as a result of the dispute and they can think of only a handful who have.
  If you have got a voice at the table, then those sorts of issues will actually determine and steer the way that promotion processes develop.
  The eighteen who were left held our own meeting around the Council table.
  The Crown cannot force them to come to the table, negotiate, and reach resolutions.
  Bring your issues to the table so we can ail work on them together, presenting a united front.
  We should either launch a military attack or else go to the table and negotiate.
  The players' priority is to stay at the table and work out reasonable ways to address all the issues.
  There are a few factors that may be compelling India to talk about bringing the Kashmir issue to the table earlier rather than later.
  The unions will not sit at the table together and negotiate.
  Pragmatically, one needs to secure a space at the table before one can negotiate.
  He said the only way to deal with serious issues was to sit around the table and negotiate.
4. 1.4Bridge in singular The dummy hand (which is exposed on the table).
2A set of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns.
the population has grown, as shown in table 1
Example sentencesExamples
- The first column of the table indicates the signs of the zodiac.
- Joel has a couple of tables of figures showing stock comparisons, one from last week, and one from two years ago.
- A number of excellent tables, figures and flow charts are included for clinicians to use in practice.
- The abundance of figures, tables, charts, and examples help make the research results more understandable.
- Once you have that number, you simply use the look-up tables to figure out what your income tax is.
- While the text seems choppy at times due to an effort to cover so much material, the many figures, tables and graphs supplement the material well.
- The analogy that the argument posits thus falls nicely into a table with two columns and three rows.
- This chart shows the relationships in the rightmost column of the previous table.
- She lays it out in a table indicating in one column the story a reader might find in a first reading.
- The second column in the table shows the rental index from the consumer price index.
- Throughout the text useful diagrams and tables illustrate the content of the text.
- We, too, still love glossy printed pages with beautifully laid out figures, tables, and illustrations.
- This section includes many thoughtful hypotheses that are backed up by clearly illustrated tables and figures.
- Numerous charts, tables and figures are used to advantage throughout the book.
- He has a sophisticated program on the screen with the company logo and you see a list of all the shops' sales figures done in a table.
- This is shown by an increasing gradient of intervention down the columns of the table for all patient and hospital groups.
- For a detailed summary of the evidence on each herb, see the accompanying table on page 1840.
- Numerous figures and tables and a detailed index serve to enhance this slender volume even more.
- You should be able to put all your marketing pieces on a table and see that they go together.
- Figures, tables, and glossaries of terms promote an understanding of the materials presented.
Synonyms
list, chart, diagram, figure, graph, plan
catalogue, inventory, digest, enumeration, tabulation, index, directory, register, itemization, record
Computing graphic
1. 2.1 A list of rivals or competitors showing their positions relative to one another; a league table.
  the team's slide down the First Division table
  Example sentencesExamples
  Only two of the next fifteen league matches are against teams above Liverpool in the table.
  Gargrave have made it six wins from seven starts in the Craven Football League to stay at the head of the table.
  This result took Burley to the top of the table, a position they strengthened further with a win at Menston on Monday.
  Indeed another win tomorrow and defeat for Selby could see Railway leapfrog their North Yorkshire rivals in the table.
  But the result will satisfy neither side as they remain in the lower regions of the table with all their rivals still to play today.
  Then again, when has the table had any relevance on this topsy-turvy league?
  They filled five of the top ten positions in the championship table.
  If the game does go ahead Harrogate could go top of the table as their main rivals are involved in the Tetley's Bitter Cup.
  Reds have lost their opening three Super League games and are at the foot of the table.
  Half way up the table would be an excellent season taking into account the team and resources.
  Their current position in the table is a testament to the kind of hard work, patience and stability that is very rare in football nowadays.
  Rotherham were understandably delighted as the final whistle sealed their position on top of the table.
  With pounds for places in the Premiership, each move up the table is worth half a million pounds.
  Since then they have won ten of their last 11 league games to finish a creditable fourth in the final table.
  Hibs, even in defeat, will still believe they are capable of retaining their second position in the table.
  It leaves the league wide open at both ends of the table and a win next week for the Dalesmen is vital.
  So, apart from pushing for a more respectable position in the table, it is to the cup competitions that he is looking for salvation.
  At the time when he was forced into suspension United sat top of the table, with the best defensive record in the league.
  Eventually they were reeled in by the bigger teams but finished very creditably in the top quarter of the table.
  That said, Barnsley, rooted in the bottom half of the table, fully deserved a victory.
2. 2.2tables Multiplication tables.
  children at the school have spelling tests and learn their tables
3. 2.3Computing A collection of data stored in memory as a series of records, each defined by a unique key stored with it.
  Example sentencesExamples
  To this end, I created a new database to store the tables.
  Of course, this means that we must first have an appropriate table defined in our database.
  Database systems will seamlessly read the tables created by database systems from other vendors.
  Information on how addresses are translated is kept in a set of page tables stored in main memory.
  An example would be retro viruses that attack antivirus software by deleting virus definition tables or memory resident scanners.
3Architecture
A flat, typically rectangular, vertical surface; a panel.
1. 3.1 A horizontal moulding, especially a cornice.
2. 3.2 A slab of wood or stone bearing an inscription.
3. 3.3 A flat surface of a gem.
4. 3.4 A cut gem with two flat faces.
5. 3.5 Each half or quarter of a folding board for backgammon.

verb ˈteɪb(ə)lˈteɪbəl

[with object]

1British Present formally for discussion or consideration at a meeting.
more than 200 amendments to the bill have already been tabled
Example sentencesExamples
- The amended by-laws will be tabled before the council's Portfolio Committees during May.
- MPs will be able to table amendments to the bill before its detailed consideration in the new year, before it goes to the House of Lords.
- They also tabled a motion that real estate tax be revoked.
- All the information that I have, and know of, I tabled yesterday afternoon.
- When do you expect to see the final report actually tabled in Parliament?
- The Youth Club proposal did not work and he was now tabling another solution.
- Well, the Auditor-General's report was tabled yesterday.
- A council report containing scorecards on the municipality's efforts was tabled at a council meeting on Tuesday.
- The discussions tabled during the meeting focused on creating a more unique festival atmosphere specific to Pattaya and reducing the time frame of the event.
- The team of management consultants at that meeting tabled a report.
- The same sources emphasise that the American has not yet formally tabled any bid for any further shares, never mind the Irish pair's vast holding.
- He was given the news when he telephoned the council, ahead of the July meeting at which the matter was tabled for discussion.
- The panel's report, to be tabled at Wednesday's meeting of the legislature, is based on evidence from 73 witnesses at 30 hearings held since December.
- Provincial budgets must be tabled in legislatures within 15 days of the national Budget being tabled.
- Proposals will be tabled today to get Colchester's community stadium off the ground.
- Plans for the reception centres are expected to be tabled at a meeting of the British, Italian, Spanish, French and German justice ministers in Florence in October.
- When a document is tabled in parliament, there is no obligation on journalists to give a balanced account.
- Proposals for structural reshuffles were also tabled at the meeting.
- The cola report isn't formally tabled, but no heads will roll for this menace to public health.
- The next provincial budget will be tabled on February 15, 2005.
Synonyms
submit, put forward, bring forward, propose, suggest, move, enter, lodge, file, introduce, air, moot, lay
2US Postpone consideration of.
I'd like the issue to be tabled for the next few months
Example sentencesExamples
- I move that that issue be tabled, that we may select a new First Councilor.
- Supervisors were set to vote to adopt the ordinance Monday but tabled the item after at least 20 massage therapists turned out for last night's meeting.
- We tabled the project, but remained on very good speaking terms.
- The abduction issue would be tabled if bilateral talks are resumed possibly later this month.
- I'm tabling the decisions for the moment.
- The plan was tabled only after a community outcry; the district has announced that it will hold a series of public forums on the subject.
- Following Council's usual practice, this motion was tabled, to be considered with other financial commitments at the end of the meeting.
- The motion passed, and discussion on the remaining proposed amendments was tabled until the November meeting.
- The proposal was tabled until the next meeting to allow the task force time to clearly define how the percentages would be determined.
- The Monroeville Planning Commission recommended approval of the rezoning, but Monroeville Council tabled the application.
- The decision has been tabled until completion, later this year, of the current reconstruction of the course.
- That matter has itself gotten a hearing from the board, which has dragged its feet on the question and tabled it for now.
- I would guess that any ‘reformation’ of the State department is tabled until after 2004.
Synonyms
postpone, put off, delay, defer, put back, hold off, hold over, carry over, reschedule, do later, shelve, stand over, pigeonhole, hold in abeyance, put in abeyance, mothball
3Sailing
Strengthen (a sail) by making a hem at the edge.

Phrases

lay something on the table

1Make something known so that it can be freely discussed.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘It is time to start laying the facts on the table,’ he said.
- If so-called public interest groups or non-profit corporations are accepting corporate money, lay it on the table.
- You just lay it on the table… what you like and what you want more of.
- He said every trader is prepared to lay their accounts on the table for inspection by the judge which was significant because similar cases were lost before elsewhere simply because only one trader was bringing action.
- Thus, they called this hearing to lay the issue on the table for discussion.
- Well, I suppose there's nothing like laying your trivia on the table at the outset so that anyone who's not up for some girlie chat can go put some shelves up in the kitchen.
- In other words, the opposition has laid our bona fides on the table and we have done that right here in the chamber during the committee debate.
- In an odd sense, sir, is this some progress in your mind, that they are finally laying the charges on the table?
- Death of a Superhero lays its credentials on the table as a novel of self-affirmation and self-belief.
- The process has to reveal the total capability provided by every program and lay the facts on the table for all to see.
2Postpone something indefinitely.

on the table

Offered for discussion.
our offer remains on the table
Example sentencesExamples
- They should simply take a big deep breath and adopt a number of the proposals now on the table.
- Several clubs have been in touch and there are already a number of offers on the table.
- In fact I am the only British leader that has ever said I would put the rebate on the table.
- I can deny that there are any proposals on the table and there is not likely to be, not at this stage.
- The proposal on the table would cut production workers' pay from about $27 an hour to $22 an hour on July 3.
- I did have my chance to go, the chairman told me there were two or three offers on the table.
- Workers have been offered a hefty redundancy package as part of a deal already on the table.
- The letter said you have seven days in which to sign, or the offer will not be on the table.
- If they have an alternative they should be coming forward and putting it on the table.
- He has given the council until the end of the month to put a plan of action on the table.

turn the tables

Reverse one's position relative to someone else, especially by turning a position of disadvantage into one of advantage.
police invited householders to a seminar on how to turn the tables on burglars
Example sentencesExamples
- Instead the operator turns the tables on the subscriber.
- She was tired of men taking open advantage of women and decided to turn the tables.
- But her kindness turns the tables on her cruel master.
- So researchers turned the tables on the cancer, taking advantage of a tumor's ability to attract the stem cells.
- Just when the book seems about to cross the border into out-and-out sadism, however, Elizabeth turns the tables on her stalker and strikes a blow for women everywhere.
- Very often these games involve him turning the tables on us.
- Having absorbed your comments on the state of journalism, I'm turning the tables.
- He times it carefully, and quickly turns the tables on the hermit, pressing his attack and his advantage.
- In effect, less powerful countries have an increased ability to obstruct the major powers, but they are in no position to turn the tables.
- I think we're turning the tables on you, Howard.

under the table

1Very drunk.
by 3.30 everybody was under the table
Synonyms
intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin
2(especially of making a payment) secretly or covertly.
he accepted a slew of payoffs under the table

Derivatives

tableful

nounPlural tablefuls ˈteɪb(ə)lfʊlˈteɪb(ə)lˌfʊl

A few years ago, I was sitting with a tableful of artists who agreed to an equally bleak, and equally wrong, assessment of art.
Example sentencesExamples
- It's rare to see a tableful of boisterous eaters shocked into introspective silence by a single bite of food.
- Then one evening he had timidly inserted himself into a tableful of them because the pub was packed - Saturday night - and the bar owner had yanked a chair up to this table for him.
- At least, that's the way I heard Monica tell the story at a Friar's Club tableful of comedians, all of whom nodded that he'd done that to them, as well.
- Of course, I also had to smile at the thought of a tableful of law professors grilling him.

Origin

Old English tabule 'flat slab, inscribed tablet', from Latin tabula 'plank, tablet, list', reinforced in Middle English by Old French table.

The earliest examples of the word, from Latin tabula, referred to a flat board, slab, or surface, and it did not grow legs until around 1300. One of the first meanings was a gaming board—in the case of backgammon the plural tables was used, because its board has two folding halves. Although this meaning had died out by the mid 18th century it is preserved in the expression turn the tables, which arose from the common practice of turning the board round between games so that a player had to play from what had previously been their opponent's position. The early sense of table is also found in tablet (Middle English) for a small slab of stone. The notion of a compressed drug or confection in the shape of a lozenge dates from the late 16th century. The word tabloid (late 19th century), based on tablet, was originally the proprietary name of a medicine sold in tablets; the term then came to denote any small medicinal tablet of any brand. The application of tabloid to a newspaper (early 20th century) is from the notion of the stories being concentrated into an easily digestible form. Table d′hôte adopted from French in the early 17th century is literally ‘host's table’. The term originally described a table in a hotel or restaurant where all guests ate together, which led to its use for a meal served there at a stated time and for a fixed price. See also carpet

Rhymes

Abel, able, Babel, cable, enable, fable, gable, label, Mabel, sable, stable

Definition of table in US English:

table

nounˈtābəlˈteɪbəl

1A piece of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, providing a level surface on which objects may be placed, and that can be used for such purposes as eating, writing, working, or playing games.
Example sentencesExamples
- Finally reaching an empty table by the window, she sat down hastily.
- You can use standard outdoor furniture or built-in tables and chairs, or carry pieces from inside the house for special occasions.
- I sat at an empty table in the corner, sunglasses still on.
- Buffy came back up in a fighting stance holding a splintered piece of the table out in front of her.
- Eventually, she resolved to hold her wrist down to the table so that her writing would be legible.
- Usually four students are placed at a large table, or four individual tables or desks pushed together.
- The woodwork in the show includes large furniture items like tables, benches and screens as well as plates, letters openers and wine corkstoppers.
- We got one loaf ourselves, and had one piece at a table right outside of the bakery.
- We were crowded around a single, circular lunch table in the cafeteria.
- In the middle of each room was a low table with a vase of fresh flowers on it.
- She looked up as Rachel arrived back at the table, holding a piece of paper in her hands.
- Also in the room was a table with chairs and two small dressers.
- I'll ask them to reserve the table next to us, if you want.
- His eyes glittered as we approached the table laden with creams, cakes, pies, and other delectable delicacies.
- Around the edges of the room were pieces of furniture like tables and a few chairs.
- He washed dishes and set the tables at a restaurant when he was a junior university student.
- Mike leaned back in a folding chair behind a small round table in the corner.
- There was a large marble table in the middle, surrounded by ten chairs.
- Dropping her spoon with a clatter, Hope reached across the table to take the piece of paper from her sister.
- He made occasional furniture pieces such as tables and chairs, as well as picture frames.
Synonyms
bench, board, work surface, worktop, counter, desk, bar, buffet, stand, workbench, worktable, top, horizontal surface, surface
1. 1.1in singular Food provided in a restaurant or household.
  he was reputed to have the finest French table of the time
  Synonyms
  meal, food, fare, diet, board, menu, nourishment, nutriment
2. 1.2 A group seated at table for a meal.
  the whole table was in gales of laughter
  Example sentencesExamples
  After he left we discovered that he had insisted on paying for the meal for the whole table.
  In the end, the table settled on getting a jug of red lemonade and a jug of water.
  Some tables kept looking at me, for some reason, maybe it was my head.
  Everyone at the table seemed to instantly get up, and soon other tables followed suit.
3. 1.3the table A meeting place or forum for formal discussions held to settle an issue or dispute.
  the negotiating table
  Example sentencesExamples
  The mayor had to leave early, but he asked me to bring a couple issues to the table.
  Pragmatically, one needs to secure a space at the table before one can negotiate.
  The unions will not sit at the table together and negotiate.
  Oh, they told him he could still come in and sit at the conference table in the meeting room if he liked.
  The Crown cannot force them to come to the table, negotiate, and reach resolutions.
  None sitting around the table have left the union as a result of the dispute and they can think of only a handful who have.
  The eighteen who were left held our own meeting around the Council table.
  Alberta said from the beginning the province should be at the table as Kyoto was negotiated.
  He stormed out from the table and the meeting was concluded with dissatisfaction.
  We should either launch a military attack or else go to the table and negotiate.
  If you have got a voice at the table, then those sorts of issues will actually determine and steer the way that promotion processes develop.
  Let's just hope that he's not sitting round the table for the negotiations about the forthcoming strike.
  Bring your issues to the table so we can ail work on them together, presenting a united front.
  Both sides are to return to the table next week to resolve a number of outstanding peripheral issues.
  The ultimate goal for activists is to be invited to the table of the G8 meetings.
  I think we need to get people back to the table, back into discussions, begin to look at where we are.
  There are a few factors that may be compelling India to talk about bringing the Kashmir issue to the table earlier rather than later.
  The players' priority is to stay at the table and work out reasonable ways to address all the issues.
  He said the only way to deal with serious issues was to sit around the table and negotiate.
  Then after a few weeks, the two sides would return to the negotiating table to discuss the issues that divide them.
4. 1.4Bridge in singular The dummy hand (which is exposed on the table)
  they made the hand easily with the aid of a club ruff on the table
2A set of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns.
the population has grown, as shown in table 1
a table of contents
Example sentencesExamples
- Figures, tables, and glossaries of terms promote an understanding of the materials presented.
- Throughout the text useful diagrams and tables illustrate the content of the text.
- This chart shows the relationships in the rightmost column of the previous table.
- The abundance of figures, tables, charts, and examples help make the research results more understandable.
- This section includes many thoughtful hypotheses that are backed up by clearly illustrated tables and figures.
- While the text seems choppy at times due to an effort to cover so much material, the many figures, tables and graphs supplement the material well.
- A number of excellent tables, figures and flow charts are included for clinicians to use in practice.
- She lays it out in a table indicating in one column the story a reader might find in a first reading.
- The analogy that the argument posits thus falls nicely into a table with two columns and three rows.
- Joel has a couple of tables of figures showing stock comparisons, one from last week, and one from two years ago.
- We, too, still love glossy printed pages with beautifully laid out figures, tables, and illustrations.
- He has a sophisticated program on the screen with the company logo and you see a list of all the shops' sales figures done in a table.
- Numerous charts, tables and figures are used to advantage throughout the book.
- This is shown by an increasing gradient of intervention down the columns of the table for all patient and hospital groups.
- The first column of the table indicates the signs of the zodiac.
- The second column in the table shows the rental index from the consumer price index.
- Once you have that number, you simply use the look-up tables to figure out what your income tax is.
- Numerous figures and tables and a detailed index serve to enhance this slender volume even more.
- You should be able to put all your marketing pieces on a table and see that they go together.
- For a detailed summary of the evidence on each herb, see the accompanying table on page 1840.
Synonyms
list, chart, diagram, figure, graph, plan
1. 2.1Computing A collection of data stored in memory as a series of records, each defined by a unique key stored with it.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Of course, this means that we must first have an appropriate table defined in our database.
  Database systems will seamlessly read the tables created by database systems from other vendors.
  An example would be retro viruses that attack antivirus software by deleting virus definition tables or memory resident scanners.
  Information on how addresses are translated is kept in a set of page tables stored in main memory.
  To this end, I created a new database to store the tables.
3Architecture
A flat, typically rectangular, vertical surface.
1. 3.1 A horizontal molding, especially a cornice.
2. 3.2 A slab of wood or stone bearing an inscription.
3. 3.3 A flat surface of a gem.
4. 3.4 A cut gem with two flat faces.
5. 3.5 Each half or quarter of a folding board for backgammon.

verbˈtābəlˈteɪbəl

[with object]

1US Postpone consideration of.
I'd like the issue to be tabled for the next few months
Example sentencesExamples
- The proposal was tabled until the next meeting to allow the task force time to clearly define how the percentages would be determined.
- Following Council's usual practice, this motion was tabled, to be considered with other financial commitments at the end of the meeting.
- That matter has itself gotten a hearing from the board, which has dragged its feet on the question and tabled it for now.
- We tabled the project, but remained on very good speaking terms.
- The plan was tabled only after a community outcry; the district has announced that it will hold a series of public forums on the subject.
- The motion passed, and discussion on the remaining proposed amendments was tabled until the November meeting.
- I'm tabling the decisions for the moment.
- Supervisors were set to vote to adopt the ordinance Monday but tabled the item after at least 20 massage therapists turned out for last night's meeting.
- The Monroeville Planning Commission recommended approval of the rezoning, but Monroeville Council tabled the application.
- I move that that issue be tabled, that we may select a new First Councilor.
- The abduction issue would be tabled if bilateral talks are resumed possibly later this month.
- The decision has been tabled until completion, later this year, of the current reconstruction of the course.
- I would guess that any ‘reformation’ of the State department is tabled until after 2004.
Synonyms
postpone, put off, delay, defer, put back, hold off, hold over, carry over, reschedule, do later, shelve, stand over, pigeonhole, hold in abeyance, put in abeyance, mothball
2British Present formally for discussion or consideration at a meeting.
an MP tabled an amendment to the bill
Example sentencesExamples
- He was given the news when he telephoned the council, ahead of the July meeting at which the matter was tabled for discussion.
- The cola report isn't formally tabled, but no heads will roll for this menace to public health.
- Well, the Auditor-General's report was tabled yesterday.
- The panel's report, to be tabled at Wednesday's meeting of the legislature, is based on evidence from 73 witnesses at 30 hearings held since December.
- MPs will be able to table amendments to the bill before its detailed consideration in the new year, before it goes to the House of Lords.
- The next provincial budget will be tabled on February 15, 2005.
- Provincial budgets must be tabled in legislatures within 15 days of the national Budget being tabled.
- All the information that I have, and know of, I tabled yesterday afternoon.
- When do you expect to see the final report actually tabled in Parliament?
- The Youth Club proposal did not work and he was now tabling another solution.
- Plans for the reception centres are expected to be tabled at a meeting of the British, Italian, Spanish, French and German justice ministers in Florence in October.
- They also tabled a motion that real estate tax be revoked.
- A council report containing scorecards on the municipality's efforts was tabled at a council meeting on Tuesday.
- Proposals for structural reshuffles were also tabled at the meeting.
- When a document is tabled in parliament, there is no obligation on journalists to give a balanced account.
- The amended by-laws will be tabled before the council's Portfolio Committees during May.
- Proposals will be tabled today to get Colchester's community stadium off the ground.
- The discussions tabled during the meeting focused on creating a more unique festival atmosphere specific to Pattaya and reducing the time frame of the event.
- The team of management consultants at that meeting tabled a report.
- The same sources emphasise that the American has not yet formally tabled any bid for any further shares, never mind the Irish pair's vast holding.
Synonyms
submit, put forward, bring forward, propose, suggest, move, enter, lodge, file, introduce, air, moot, lay

Phrases

lay something on the table

1Make something known so that it can be freely and sensibly discussed.
Example sentencesExamples
- He said every trader is prepared to lay their accounts on the table for inspection by the judge which was significant because similar cases were lost before elsewhere simply because only one trader was bringing action.
- Well, I suppose there's nothing like laying your trivia on the table at the outset so that anyone who's not up for some girlie chat can go put some shelves up in the kitchen.
- ‘It is time to start laying the facts on the table,’ he said.
- The process has to reveal the total capability provided by every program and lay the facts on the table for all to see.
- In other words, the opposition has laid our bona fides on the table and we have done that right here in the chamber during the committee debate.
- Death of a Superhero lays its credentials on the table as a novel of self-affirmation and self-belief.
- You just lay it on the table… what you like and what you want more of.
- Thus, they called this hearing to lay the issue on the table for discussion.
- If so-called public interest groups or non-profit corporations are accepting corporate money, lay it on the table.
- In an odd sense, sir, is this some progress in your mind, that they are finally laying the charges on the table?
2Postpone something indefinitely.

on the table

Offered for discussion.
our offer remains on the table
Example sentencesExamples
- Workers have been offered a hefty redundancy package as part of a deal already on the table.
- I can deny that there are any proposals on the table and there is not likely to be, not at this stage.
- If they have an alternative they should be coming forward and putting it on the table.
- He has given the council until the end of the month to put a plan of action on the table.
- The letter said you have seven days in which to sign, or the offer will not be on the table.
- Several clubs have been in touch and there are already a number of offers on the table.
- I did have my chance to go, the chairman told me there were two or three offers on the table.
- The proposal on the table would cut production workers' pay from about $27 an hour to $22 an hour on July 3.
- They should simply take a big deep breath and adopt a number of the proposals now on the table.
- In fact I am the only British leader that has ever said I would put the rebate on the table.

turn the tables

Reverse one's position relative to someone else, especially by turning a position of disadvantage into one of advantage.
police invited householders to a seminar on how to turn the tables on burglars
Example sentencesExamples
- Very often these games involve him turning the tables on us.
- Instead the operator turns the tables on the subscriber.
- In effect, less powerful countries have an increased ability to obstruct the major powers, but they are in no position to turn the tables.
- Just when the book seems about to cross the border into out-and-out sadism, however, Elizabeth turns the tables on her stalker and strikes a blow for women everywhere.
- So researchers turned the tables on the cancer, taking advantage of a tumor's ability to attract the stem cells.
- But her kindness turns the tables on her cruel master.
- She was tired of men taking open advantage of women and decided to turn the tables.
- Having absorbed your comments on the state of journalism, I'm turning the tables.
- He times it carefully, and quickly turns the tables on the hermit, pressing his attack and his advantage.
- I think we're turning the tables on you, Howard.

under the table

1Very drunk.
by 3:30 everybody was under the table
Synonyms
intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin
2(especially of making a payment) secretly or covertly.
he accepted a slew of payoffs under the table

at table

Seated at a table eating a meal.
Example sentencesExamples
- But the origin of the singerie as a distinct genre is usually attributed to Claude Audran, who in 1709 painted an arbour with monkeys seated at table for the Château de Marly.
- I can't help hoping that the guest-leaders, seated at table in Okinawa, might read these words and ponder whom they are being hosted by.
- What stories might you tell of young people at table?
- Although Jesus sits at table with Pharisees at various times throughout the journey, teaching and preaching, it is the powerful whom he is rebuking.
- ‘Give us a lick of yon jam,’ is a request regularly heard at table.
- How one acts at table is how one prepares for God's sovereignty.
- First this: my thoughts are with all those people who will not have a loved one with them at table, in bed, in the classroom or at their side tomorrow.
- The woman who bathed Jesus' feet with her tears got the point; the men sitting at table with him didn't.
- In a similar vein, it is not entirely whimsical that at table we acknowledge with thanks the animal and vegetable life that makes possible our meal.
- Sometime before I leave I will sit at table, in the middle of dinner with 80 people, I will be tired and grumpy and bored with conversation and I will tip my head back, open my mouth, and scream.

Origin

Old English tabule ‘flat slab, inscribed tablet’, from Latin tabula ‘plank, tablet, list’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French table.

单词	table
释义	Definition of table in English: table noun ˈteɪb(ə)lˈteɪbəl 1A piece of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, providing a level surface for eating, writing, or working at. she put the plate on the table he rang the restaurant to book a table for lunch Example sentencesExamples Usually four students are placed at a large table, or four individual tables or desks pushed together. There was a large marble table in the middle, surrounded by ten chairs. I sat at an empty table in the corner, sunglasses still on. We were crowded around a single, circular lunch table in the cafeteria. Buffy came back up in a fighting stance holding a splintered piece of the table out in front of her. Eventually, she resolved to hold her wrist down to the table so that her writing would be legible. The woodwork in the show includes large furniture items like tables, benches and screens as well as plates, letters openers and wine corkstoppers. Finally reaching an empty table by the window, she sat down hastily. He washed dishes and set the tables at a restaurant when he was a junior university student. Also in the room was a table with chairs and two small dressers. In the middle of each room was a low table with a vase of fresh flowers on it. I'll ask them to reserve the table next to us, if you want. You can use standard outdoor furniture or built-in tables and chairs, or carry pieces from inside the house for special occasions. Dropping her spoon with a clatter, Hope reached across the table to take the piece of paper from her sister. Mike leaned back in a folding chair behind a small round table in the corner. She looked up as Rachel arrived back at the table, holding a piece of paper in her hands. He made occasional furniture pieces such as tables and chairs, as well as picture frames. His eyes glittered as we approached the table laden with creams, cakes, pies, and other delectable delicacies. Around the edges of the room were pieces of furniture like tables and a few chairs. We got one loaf ourselves, and had one piece at a table right outside of the bakery. Synonyms bench, board, work surface, worktop, counter, desk, bar, buffet, stand, workbench, worktable, top, horizontal surface, surface 1.1in singular Food provided in a restaurant or household. he was reputed to have the finest French table of the time Synonyms meal, food, fare, diet, board, menu, nourishment, nutriment eatables, rations, provisions informal spread, grub, chow, eats, nosh archaic victuals, vittles, viands 1.2 A group seated at table for a meal. the whole table was in gales of laughter Example sentencesExamples In the end, the table settled on getting a jug of red lemonade and a jug of water. Some tables kept looking at me, for some reason, maybe it was my head. Everyone at the table seemed to instantly get up, and soon other tables followed suit. After he left we discovered that he had insisted on paying for the meal for the whole table. 1.3the table A meeting place or forum for formal discussions held to settle an issue or dispute. the negotiating table Example sentencesExamples Both sides are to return to the table next week to resolve a number of outstanding peripheral issues. The ultimate goal for activists is to be invited to the table of the G8 meetings. I think we need to get people back to the table, back into discussions, begin to look at where we are. Let's just hope that he's not sitting round the table for the negotiations about the forthcoming strike. The mayor had to leave early, but he asked me to bring a couple issues to the table. Alberta said from the beginning the province should be at the table as Kyoto was negotiated. Oh, they told him he could still come in and sit at the conference table in the meeting room if he liked. He stormed out from the table and the meeting was concluded with dissatisfaction. Then after a few weeks, the two sides would return to the negotiating table to discuss the issues that divide them. None sitting around the table have left the union as a result of the dispute and they can think of only a handful who have. If you have got a voice at the table, then those sorts of issues will actually determine and steer the way that promotion processes develop. The eighteen who were left held our own meeting around the Council table. The Crown cannot force them to come to the table, negotiate, and reach resolutions. Bring your issues to the table so we can ail work on them together, presenting a united front. We should either launch a military attack or else go to the table and negotiate. The players' priority is to stay at the table and work out reasonable ways to address all the issues. There are a few factors that may be compelling India to talk about bringing the Kashmir issue to the table earlier rather than later. The unions will not sit at the table together and negotiate. Pragmatically, one needs to secure a space at the table before one can negotiate. He said the only way to deal with serious issues was to sit around the table and negotiate. 1.4Bridge in singular The dummy hand (which is exposed on the table). 2A set of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns. the population has grown, as shown in table 1 Example sentencesExamples The first column of the table indicates the signs of the zodiac. Joel has a couple of tables of figures showing stock comparisons, one from last week, and one from two years ago. A number of excellent tables, figures and flow charts are included for clinicians to use in practice. The abundance of figures, tables, charts, and examples help make the research results more understandable. Once you have that number, you simply use the look-up tables to figure out what your income tax is. While the text seems choppy at times due to an effort to cover so much material, the many figures, tables and graphs supplement the material well. The analogy that the argument posits thus falls nicely into a table with two columns and three rows. This chart shows the relationships in the rightmost column of the previous table. She lays it out in a table indicating in one column the story a reader might find in a first reading. The second column in the table shows the rental index from the consumer price index. Throughout the text useful diagrams and tables illustrate the content of the text. We, too, still love glossy printed pages with beautifully laid out figures, tables, and illustrations. This section includes many thoughtful hypotheses that are backed up by clearly illustrated tables and figures. Numerous charts, tables and figures are used to advantage throughout the book. He has a sophisticated program on the screen with the company logo and you see a list of all the shops' sales figures done in a table. This is shown by an increasing gradient of intervention down the columns of the table for all patient and hospital groups. For a detailed summary of the evidence on each herb, see the accompanying table on page 1840. Numerous figures and tables and a detailed index serve to enhance this slender volume even more. You should be able to put all your marketing pieces on a table and see that they go together. Figures, tables, and glossaries of terms promote an understanding of the materials presented. Synonyms list, chart, diagram, figure, graph, plan catalogue, inventory, digest, enumeration, tabulation, index, directory, register, itemization, record Computing graphic 2.1 A list of rivals or competitors showing their positions relative to one another; a league table. the team's slide down the First Division table Example sentencesExamples Only two of the next fifteen league matches are against teams above Liverpool in the table. Gargrave have made it six wins from seven starts in the Craven Football League to stay at the head of the table. This result took Burley to the top of the table, a position they strengthened further with a win at Menston on Monday. Indeed another win tomorrow and defeat for Selby could see Railway leapfrog their North Yorkshire rivals in the table. But the result will satisfy neither side as they remain in the lower regions of the table with all their rivals still to play today. Then again, when has the table had any relevance on this topsy-turvy league? They filled five of the top ten positions in the championship table. If the game does go ahead Harrogate could go top of the table as their main rivals are involved in the Tetley's Bitter Cup. Reds have lost their opening three Super League games and are at the foot of the table. Half way up the table would be an excellent season taking into account the team and resources. Their current position in the table is a testament to the kind of hard work, patience and stability that is very rare in football nowadays. Rotherham were understandably delighted as the final whistle sealed their position on top of the table. With pounds for places in the Premiership, each move up the table is worth half a million pounds. Since then they have won ten of their last 11 league games to finish a creditable fourth in the final table. Hibs, even in defeat, will still believe they are capable of retaining their second position in the table. It leaves the league wide open at both ends of the table and a win next week for the Dalesmen is vital. So, apart from pushing for a more respectable position in the table, it is to the cup competitions that he is looking for salvation. At the time when he was forced into suspension United sat top of the table, with the best defensive record in the league. Eventually they were reeled in by the bigger teams but finished very creditably in the top quarter of the table. That said, Barnsley, rooted in the bottom half of the table, fully deserved a victory. 2.2tables Multiplication tables. children at the school have spelling tests and learn their tables 2.3Computing A collection of data stored in memory as a series of records, each defined by a unique key stored with it. Example sentencesExamples To this end, I created a new database to store the tables. Of course, this means that we must first have an appropriate table defined in our database. Database systems will seamlessly read the tables created by database systems from other vendors. Information on how addresses are translated is kept in a set of page tables stored in main memory. An example would be retro viruses that attack antivirus software by deleting virus definition tables or memory resident scanners. 3Architecture A flat, typically rectangular, vertical surface; a panel. 3.1 A horizontal moulding, especially a cornice. 3.2 A slab of wood or stone bearing an inscription. 3.3 A flat surface of a gem. 3.4 A cut gem with two flat faces. 3.5 Each half or quarter of a folding board for backgammon. verb ˈteɪb(ə)lˈteɪbəl [with object] 1British Present formally for discussion or consideration at a meeting. more than 200 amendments to the bill have already been tabled Example sentencesExamples The amended by-laws will be tabled before the council's Portfolio Committees during May. MPs will be able to table amendments to the bill before its detailed consideration in the new year, before it goes to the House of Lords. They also tabled a motion that real estate tax be revoked. All the information that I have, and know of, I tabled yesterday afternoon. When do you expect to see the final report actually tabled in Parliament? The Youth Club proposal did not work and he was now tabling another solution. Well, the Auditor-General's report was tabled yesterday. A council report containing scorecards on the municipality's efforts was tabled at a council meeting on Tuesday. The discussions tabled during the meeting focused on creating a more unique festival atmosphere specific to Pattaya and reducing the time frame of the event. The team of management consultants at that meeting tabled a report. The same sources emphasise that the American has not yet formally tabled any bid for any further shares, never mind the Irish pair's vast holding. He was given the news when he telephoned the council, ahead of the July meeting at which the matter was tabled for discussion. The panel's report, to be tabled at Wednesday's meeting of the legislature, is based on evidence from 73 witnesses at 30 hearings held since December. Provincial budgets must be tabled in legislatures within 15 days of the national Budget being tabled. Proposals will be tabled today to get Colchester's community stadium off the ground. Plans for the reception centres are expected to be tabled at a meeting of the British, Italian, Spanish, French and German justice ministers in Florence in October. When a document is tabled in parliament, there is no obligation on journalists to give a balanced account. Proposals for structural reshuffles were also tabled at the meeting. The cola report isn't formally tabled, but no heads will roll for this menace to public health. The next provincial budget will be tabled on February 15, 2005. Synonyms submit, put forward, bring forward, propose, suggest, move, enter, lodge, file, introduce, air, moot, lay 2US Postpone consideration of. I'd like the issue to be tabled for the next few months Example sentencesExamples I move that that issue be tabled, that we may select a new First Councilor. Supervisors were set to vote to adopt the ordinance Monday but tabled the item after at least 20 massage therapists turned out for last night's meeting. We tabled the project, but remained on very good speaking terms. The abduction issue would be tabled if bilateral talks are resumed possibly later this month. I'm tabling the decisions for the moment. The plan was tabled only after a community outcry; the district has announced that it will hold a series of public forums on the subject. Following Council's usual practice, this motion was tabled, to be considered with other financial commitments at the end of the meeting. The motion passed, and discussion on the remaining proposed amendments was tabled until the November meeting. The proposal was tabled until the next meeting to allow the task force time to clearly define how the percentages would be determined. The Monroeville Planning Commission recommended approval of the rezoning, but Monroeville Council tabled the application. The decision has been tabled until completion, later this year, of the current reconstruction of the course. That matter has itself gotten a hearing from the board, which has dragged its feet on the question and tabled it for now. I would guess that any ‘reformation’ of the State department is tabled until after 2004. Synonyms postpone, put off, delay, defer, put back, hold off, hold over, carry over, reschedule, do later, shelve, stand over, pigeonhole, hold in abeyance, put in abeyance, mothball 3Sailing Strengthen (a sail) by making a hem at the edge. Phrases lay something on the table 1Make something known so that it can be freely discussed. Example sentencesExamples ‘It is time to start laying the facts on the table,’ he said. If so-called public interest groups or non-profit corporations are accepting corporate money, lay it on the table. You just lay it on the table… what you like and what you want more of. He said every trader is prepared to lay their accounts on the table for inspection by the judge which was significant because similar cases were lost before elsewhere simply because only one trader was bringing action. Thus, they called this hearing to lay the issue on the table for discussion. Well, I suppose there's nothing like laying your trivia on the table at the outset so that anyone who's not up for some girlie chat can go put some shelves up in the kitchen. In other words, the opposition has laid our bona fides on the table and we have done that right here in the chamber during the committee debate. In an odd sense, sir, is this some progress in your mind, that they are finally laying the charges on the table? Death of a Superhero lays its credentials on the table as a novel of self-affirmation and self-belief. The process has to reveal the total capability provided by every program and lay the facts on the table for all to see. 2Postpone something indefinitely. on the table Offered for discussion. our offer remains on the table Example sentencesExamples They should simply take a big deep breath and adopt a number of the proposals now on the table. Several clubs have been in touch and there are already a number of offers on the table. In fact I am the only British leader that has ever said I would put the rebate on the table. I can deny that there are any proposals on the table and there is not likely to be, not at this stage. The proposal on the table would cut production workers' pay from about $27 an hour to $22 an hour on July 3. I did have my chance to go, the chairman told me there were two or three offers on the table. Workers have been offered a hefty redundancy package as part of a deal already on the table. The letter said you have seven days in which to sign, or the offer will not be on the table. If they have an alternative they should be coming forward and putting it on the table. He has given the council until the end of the month to put a plan of action on the table. turn the tables Reverse one's position relative to someone else, especially by turning a position of disadvantage into one of advantage. police invited householders to a seminar on how to turn the tables on burglars Example sentencesExamples Instead the operator turns the tables on the subscriber. She was tired of men taking open advantage of women and decided to turn the tables. But her kindness turns the tables on her cruel master. So researchers turned the tables on the cancer, taking advantage of a tumor's ability to attract the stem cells. Just when the book seems about to cross the border into out-and-out sadism, however, Elizabeth turns the tables on her stalker and strikes a blow for women everywhere. Very often these games involve him turning the tables on us. Having absorbed your comments on the state of journalism, I'm turning the tables. He times it carefully, and quickly turns the tables on the hermit, pressing his attack and his advantage. In effect, less powerful countries have an increased ability to obstruct the major powers, but they are in no position to turn the tables. I think we're turning the tables on you, Howard. under the table 1Very drunk. by 3.30 everybody was under the table Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin 2(especially of making a payment) secretly or covertly. he accepted a slew of payoffs under the table Derivatives tableful nounPlural tablefuls ˈteɪb(ə)lfʊlˈteɪb(ə)lˌfʊl A few years ago, I was sitting with a tableful of artists who agreed to an equally bleak, and equally wrong, assessment of art. Example sentencesExamples It's rare to see a tableful of boisterous eaters shocked into introspective silence by a single bite of food. Then one evening he had timidly inserted himself into a tableful of them because the pub was packed - Saturday night - and the bar owner had yanked a chair up to this table for him. At least, that's the way I heard Monica tell the story at a Friar's Club tableful of comedians, all of whom nodded that he'd done that to them, as well. Of course, I also had to smile at the thought of a tableful of law professors grilling him. Origin Old English tabule 'flat slab, inscribed tablet', from Latin tabula 'plank, tablet, list', reinforced in Middle English by Old French table. The earliest examples of the word, from Latin tabula, referred to a flat board, slab, or surface, and it did not grow legs until around 1300. One of the first meanings was a gaming board—in the case of backgammon the plural tables was used, because its board has two folding halves. Although this meaning had died out by the mid 18th century it is preserved in the expression turn the tables, which arose from the common practice of turning the board round between games so that a player had to play from what had previously been their opponent's position. The early sense of table is also found in tablet (Middle English) for a small slab of stone. The notion of a compressed drug or confection in the shape of a lozenge dates from the late 16th century. The word tabloid (late 19th century), based on tablet, was originally the proprietary name of a medicine sold in tablets; the term then came to denote any small medicinal tablet of any brand. The application of tabloid to a newspaper (early 20th century) is from the notion of the stories being concentrated into an easily digestible form. Table d′hôte adopted from French in the early 17th century is literally ‘host's table’. The term originally described a table in a hotel or restaurant where all guests ate together, which led to its use for a meal served there at a stated time and for a fixed price. See also carpet Rhymes Abel, able, Babel, cable, enable, fable, gable, label, Mabel, sable, stable noun.1 phr. Definition of table in US English: table nounˈtābəlˈteɪbəl 1A piece of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, providing a level surface on which objects may be placed, and that can be used for such purposes as eating, writing, working, or playing games. Example sentencesExamples Finally reaching an empty table by the window, she sat down hastily. You can use standard outdoor furniture or built-in tables and chairs, or carry pieces from inside the house for special occasions. I sat at an empty table in the corner, sunglasses still on. Buffy came back up in a fighting stance holding a splintered piece of the table out in front of her. Eventually, she resolved to hold her wrist down to the table so that her writing would be legible. Usually four students are placed at a large table, or four individual tables or desks pushed together. The woodwork in the show includes large furniture items like tables, benches and screens as well as plates, letters openers and wine corkstoppers. We got one loaf ourselves, and had one piece at a table right outside of the bakery. We were crowded around a single, circular lunch table in the cafeteria. In the middle of each room was a low table with a vase of fresh flowers on it. She looked up as Rachel arrived back at the table, holding a piece of paper in her hands. Also in the room was a table with chairs and two small dressers. I'll ask them to reserve the table next to us, if you want. His eyes glittered as we approached the table laden with creams, cakes, pies, and other delectable delicacies. Around the edges of the room were pieces of furniture like tables and a few chairs. He washed dishes and set the tables at a restaurant when he was a junior university student. Mike leaned back in a folding chair behind a small round table in the corner. There was a large marble table in the middle, surrounded by ten chairs. Dropping her spoon with a clatter, Hope reached across the table to take the piece of paper from her sister. He made occasional furniture pieces such as tables and chairs, as well as picture frames. Synonyms bench, board, work surface, worktop, counter, desk, bar, buffet, stand, workbench, worktable, top, horizontal surface, surface 1.1in singular Food provided in a restaurant or household. he was reputed to have the finest French table of the time Synonyms meal, food, fare, diet, board, menu, nourishment, nutriment 1.2 A group seated at table for a meal. the whole table was in gales of laughter Example sentencesExamples After he left we discovered that he had insisted on paying for the meal for the whole table. In the end, the table settled on getting a jug of red lemonade and a jug of water. Some tables kept looking at me, for some reason, maybe it was my head. Everyone at the table seemed to instantly get up, and soon other tables followed suit. 1.3the table A meeting place or forum for formal discussions held to settle an issue or dispute. the negotiating table Example sentencesExamples The mayor had to leave early, but he asked me to bring a couple issues to the table. Pragmatically, one needs to secure a space at the table before one can negotiate. The unions will not sit at the table together and negotiate. Oh, they told him he could still come in and sit at the conference table in the meeting room if he liked. The Crown cannot force them to come to the table, negotiate, and reach resolutions. None sitting around the table have left the union as a result of the dispute and they can think of only a handful who have. The eighteen who were left held our own meeting around the Council table. Alberta said from the beginning the province should be at the table as Kyoto was negotiated. He stormed out from the table and the meeting was concluded with dissatisfaction. We should either launch a military attack or else go to the table and negotiate. If you have got a voice at the table, then those sorts of issues will actually determine and steer the way that promotion processes develop. Let's just hope that he's not sitting round the table for the negotiations about the forthcoming strike. Bring your issues to the table so we can ail work on them together, presenting a united front. Both sides are to return to the table next week to resolve a number of outstanding peripheral issues. The ultimate goal for activists is to be invited to the table of the G8 meetings. I think we need to get people back to the table, back into discussions, begin to look at where we are. There are a few factors that may be compelling India to talk about bringing the Kashmir issue to the table earlier rather than later. The players' priority is to stay at the table and work out reasonable ways to address all the issues. He said the only way to deal with serious issues was to sit around the table and negotiate. Then after a few weeks, the two sides would return to the negotiating table to discuss the issues that divide them. 1.4Bridge in singular The dummy hand (which is exposed on the table) they made the hand easily with the aid of a club ruff on the table 2A set of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns. the population has grown, as shown in table 1 a table of contents Example sentencesExamples Figures, tables, and glossaries of terms promote an understanding of the materials presented. Throughout the text useful diagrams and tables illustrate the content of the text. This chart shows the relationships in the rightmost column of the previous table. The abundance of figures, tables, charts, and examples help make the research results more understandable. This section includes many thoughtful hypotheses that are backed up by clearly illustrated tables and figures. While the text seems choppy at times due to an effort to cover so much material, the many figures, tables and graphs supplement the material well. A number of excellent tables, figures and flow charts are included for clinicians to use in practice. She lays it out in a table indicating in one column the story a reader might find in a first reading. The analogy that the argument posits thus falls nicely into a table with two columns and three rows. Joel has a couple of tables of figures showing stock comparisons, one from last week, and one from two years ago. We, too, still love glossy printed pages with beautifully laid out figures, tables, and illustrations. He has a sophisticated program on the screen with the company logo and you see a list of all the shops' sales figures done in a table. Numerous charts, tables and figures are used to advantage throughout the book. This is shown by an increasing gradient of intervention down the columns of the table for all patient and hospital groups. The first column of the table indicates the signs of the zodiac. The second column in the table shows the rental index from the consumer price index. Once you have that number, you simply use the look-up tables to figure out what your income tax is. Numerous figures and tables and a detailed index serve to enhance this slender volume even more. You should be able to put all your marketing pieces on a table and see that they go together. For a detailed summary of the evidence on each herb, see the accompanying table on page 1840. Synonyms list, chart, diagram, figure, graph, plan 2.1Computing A collection of data stored in memory as a series of records, each defined by a unique key stored with it. Example sentencesExamples Of course, this means that we must first have an appropriate table defined in our database. Database systems will seamlessly read the tables created by database systems from other vendors. An example would be retro viruses that attack antivirus software by deleting virus definition tables or memory resident scanners. Information on how addresses are translated is kept in a set of page tables stored in main memory. To this end, I created a new database to store the tables. 3Architecture A flat, typically rectangular, vertical surface. 3.1 A horizontal molding, especially a cornice. 3.2 A slab of wood or stone bearing an inscription. 3.3 A flat surface of a gem. 3.4 A cut gem with two flat faces. 3.5 Each half or quarter of a folding board for backgammon. verbˈtābəlˈteɪbəl [with object] 1US Postpone consideration of. I'd like the issue to be tabled for the next few months Example sentencesExamples The proposal was tabled until the next meeting to allow the task force time to clearly define how the percentages would be determined. Following Council's usual practice, this motion was tabled, to be considered with other financial commitments at the end of the meeting. That matter has itself gotten a hearing from the board, which has dragged its feet on the question and tabled it for now. We tabled the project, but remained on very good speaking terms. The plan was tabled only after a community outcry; the district has announced that it will hold a series of public forums on the subject. The motion passed, and discussion on the remaining proposed amendments was tabled until the November meeting. I'm tabling the decisions for the moment. Supervisors were set to vote to adopt the ordinance Monday but tabled the item after at least 20 massage therapists turned out for last night's meeting. The Monroeville Planning Commission recommended approval of the rezoning, but Monroeville Council tabled the application. I move that that issue be tabled, that we may select a new First Councilor. The abduction issue would be tabled if bilateral talks are resumed possibly later this month. The decision has been tabled until completion, later this year, of the current reconstruction of the course. I would guess that any ‘reformation’ of the State department is tabled until after 2004. Synonyms postpone, put off, delay, defer, put back, hold off, hold over, carry over, reschedule, do later, shelve, stand over, pigeonhole, hold in abeyance, put in abeyance, mothball 2British Present formally for discussion or consideration at a meeting. an MP tabled an amendment to the bill Example sentencesExamples He was given the news when he telephoned the council, ahead of the July meeting at which the matter was tabled for discussion. The cola report isn't formally tabled, but no heads will roll for this menace to public health. Well, the Auditor-General's report was tabled yesterday. The panel's report, to be tabled at Wednesday's meeting of the legislature, is based on evidence from 73 witnesses at 30 hearings held since December. MPs will be able to table amendments to the bill before its detailed consideration in the new year, before it goes to the House of Lords. The next provincial budget will be tabled on February 15, 2005. Provincial budgets must be tabled in legislatures within 15 days of the national Budget being tabled. All the information that I have, and know of, I tabled yesterday afternoon. When do you expect to see the final report actually tabled in Parliament? The Youth Club proposal did not work and he was now tabling another solution. Plans for the reception centres are expected to be tabled at a meeting of the British, Italian, Spanish, French and German justice ministers in Florence in October. They also tabled a motion that real estate tax be revoked. A council report containing scorecards on the municipality's efforts was tabled at a council meeting on Tuesday. Proposals for structural reshuffles were also tabled at the meeting. When a document is tabled in parliament, there is no obligation on journalists to give a balanced account. The amended by-laws will be tabled before the council's Portfolio Committees during May. Proposals will be tabled today to get Colchester's community stadium off the ground. The discussions tabled during the meeting focused on creating a more unique festival atmosphere specific to Pattaya and reducing the time frame of the event. The team of management consultants at that meeting tabled a report. The same sources emphasise that the American has not yet formally tabled any bid for any further shares, never mind the Irish pair's vast holding. Synonyms submit, put forward, bring forward, propose, suggest, move, enter, lodge, file, introduce, air, moot, lay Phrases lay something on the table 1Make something known so that it can be freely and sensibly discussed. Example sentencesExamples He said every trader is prepared to lay their accounts on the table for inspection by the judge which was significant because similar cases were lost before elsewhere simply because only one trader was bringing action. Well, I suppose there's nothing like laying your trivia on the table at the outset so that anyone who's not up for some girlie chat can go put some shelves up in the kitchen. ‘It is time to start laying the facts on the table,’ he said. The process has to reveal the total capability provided by every program and lay the facts on the table for all to see. In other words, the opposition has laid our bona fides on the table and we have done that right here in the chamber during the committee debate. Death of a Superhero lays its credentials on the table as a novel of self-affirmation and self-belief. You just lay it on the table… what you like and what you want more of. Thus, they called this hearing to lay the issue on the table for discussion. If so-called public interest groups or non-profit corporations are accepting corporate money, lay it on the table. In an odd sense, sir, is this some progress in your mind, that they are finally laying the charges on the table? 2Postpone something indefinitely. on the table Offered for discussion. our offer remains on the table Example sentencesExamples Workers have been offered a hefty redundancy package as part of a deal already on the table. I can deny that there are any proposals on the table and there is not likely to be, not at this stage. If they have an alternative they should be coming forward and putting it on the table. He has given the council until the end of the month to put a plan of action on the table. The letter said you have seven days in which to sign, or the offer will not be on the table. Several clubs have been in touch and there are already a number of offers on the table. I did have my chance to go, the chairman told me there were two or three offers on the table. The proposal on the table would cut production workers' pay from about $27 an hour to $22 an hour on July 3. They should simply take a big deep breath and adopt a number of the proposals now on the table. In fact I am the only British leader that has ever said I would put the rebate on the table. turn the tables Reverse one's position relative to someone else, especially by turning a position of disadvantage into one of advantage. police invited householders to a seminar on how to turn the tables on burglars Example sentencesExamples Very often these games involve him turning the tables on us. Instead the operator turns the tables on the subscriber. In effect, less powerful countries have an increased ability to obstruct the major powers, but they are in no position to turn the tables. Just when the book seems about to cross the border into out-and-out sadism, however, Elizabeth turns the tables on her stalker and strikes a blow for women everywhere. So researchers turned the tables on the cancer, taking advantage of a tumor's ability to attract the stem cells. But her kindness turns the tables on her cruel master. She was tired of men taking open advantage of women and decided to turn the tables. Having absorbed your comments on the state of journalism, I'm turning the tables. He times it carefully, and quickly turns the tables on the hermit, pressing his attack and his advantage. I think we're turning the tables on you, Howard. under the table 1Very drunk. by 3:30 everybody was under the table Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin 2(especially of making a payment) secretly or covertly. he accepted a slew of payoffs under the table at table Seated at a table eating a meal. Example sentencesExamples But the origin of the singerie as a distinct genre is usually attributed to Claude Audran, who in 1709 painted an arbour with monkeys seated at table for the Château de Marly. I can't help hoping that the guest-leaders, seated at table in Okinawa, might read these words and ponder whom they are being hosted by. What stories might you tell of young people at table? Although Jesus sits at table with Pharisees at various times throughout the journey, teaching and preaching, it is the powerful whom he is rebuking. ‘Give us a lick of yon jam,’ is a request regularly heard at table. How one acts at table is how one prepares for God's sovereignty. First this: my thoughts are with all those people who will not have a loved one with them at table, in bed, in the classroom or at their side tomorrow. The woman who bathed Jesus' feet with her tears got the point; the men sitting at table with him didn't. In a similar vein, it is not entirely whimsical that at table we acknowledge with thanks the animal and vegetable life that makes possible our meal. Sometime before I leave I will sit at table, in the middle of dinner with 80 people, I will be tired and grumpy and bored with conversation and I will tip my head back, open my mouth, and scream. Origin Old English tabule ‘flat slab, inscribed tablet’, from Latin tabula ‘plank, tablet, list’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French table. noun.1 phr.
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