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单词 table
释义 ta·ble
I. \ˈtābəl\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English tabule & Old French table; both from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin tabula table, from Latin, board, tablet, writing tablet, record, document, list; perhaps akin to Old High German dili, dilla plank, plank floor — more at thill
1.
 a. obsolete : a flat slab (as of wood or stone)
  < the inner part of the temple is … covered with great tables of porphyry — Thomas Washington >
 b.
  (1) : tablet 1a(1)
   < leave a table in the middle of the panel — Fiske Kimball >
   < write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it — Hab 2:2 (Authorized Version) >
  (2) : a set of laws inscribed on tablets
   < the Twelve Tables of Roman law >
   < tables of the decalogue >
 c. obsolete
  (1) : tablet 1b
   < asked for a writing table, and wrote … his name — Lk 1:63 (Authorized Version) >
  (2) : an indelible record
   < the everlasting tables of right reason — Richard Bentley †1742 >
2.
 a.
  (1) tables plural : backgammon
  (2) : one of the two leaves of a backgammon board or either half of a leaf
   < white's inner table is opposite black's inner table >
   < play into the home table >
 b. : a game board
3.
 a.
  (1) : a piece of furniture consisting of a smooth flat slab fixed on legs or other support and variously used (as for eating, writing, working, or playing games)
  (2) : an operating or examining table
   < put the patient on the table >
  (3) : an official bench or rostrum
   < the original of the letter … must be delivered at the table by the member who makes the complaint — T.E.May >
 b.
  (1) : a supply or regular source of food or the manner of its preparation : board, fare
   < their farms were better and their tables more bountiful than most — R.H.Shryock >
   < spent his teens … as a poor relation at the table of his mother's family — American Guide Series: New York >
   < the table the landlady set was really something special and we ate all we could hold — Emmett Kelly >
  (2) : an act or instance of assembling to eat : meal, sitting
   < sit down to table with an ambassador — Agnes M. Miall >
   < if visitors can see into the kitchen while at table, no doubt they will offer to help with the washing up — G.F.Lawson >
   < still hoping … he'll get to eat at the first table — F.B.Gipson >
 c.
  (1) : a group of people (as diners, committeemen, or players in a game) assembled at or as if at a table
   < the table then spoke of … how bracing the air was — James Joyce >
   < a table of aldermen >
   < a table of bridge >
   < a famous poker table, which challenged all comers — Harvey Fergusson >
  (2) : a legislative or negotiating session
   < an ill-armed victor lacks power at the peace table — F.E.Hill >
4.
 a. : the altar or altar rail at which communicants receive Holy Communion
 b. : eucharist 1a
5.
 a. : a flat usually raised band or projecting ledge on a wall : stringcourse, water table
 b. archaic : panel 3b(2)
6.
 a. : a tabular arrangement of data
  < results of this survey are given in tables in the appendix >
 specifically : a systematic arrangement (as of numerical values) usually in parallel rows or columns for ready reference
  < table of weights and measures >
  < table of logarithms >
  < multiplication table >
 b. : a condensed enumeration : list, synopsis
  < table of contents >
  < table of organization >
  < offer his little table of oppositions and … let it stand — Carlos Baker >
7. : something that resembles a table especially in having a plane surface: as
 a.
  (1) : the principal facet at the top of a brilliant — see brilliant illustration
  (2) : table diamond
 b.
  (1) : tableland
  (2) : level — see water table
 c. obsolete
  (1) : picture
  (2) : the surface on which a picture is painted
  (3) : a plane of perspective
 d.
  (1) : the external or internal layer of compact bone of the skull separated by cancellous diploe
  (2) : the flat worn upper surface of a tooth (as of a horse)
 e. archaic : a large round sheet of crown glass
 f. : a flat or short prismatic crystal
 g.
  (1) : a flat plate in a machine tool that is often movable and is usually provided with T slots on its upper surfaces to which work can be fastened while it is being processed
  (2) : a concentrating table (as for washing or screening coal ore) : settling trough : run
 h. : a long flat-bottomed slightly inclined trough down which a slurry of starch and gluten flows slowly so that the heavier starch particles settle out while the gluten runs off
 i. : belly 5f

- on the table
- under the table
II. adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from table (I)
1. obsolete : of or relating to backgammon
 < your table players, and other gamesters — James Mabbe >
2.
 a. : of, relating to, or used on a table
  < table mat >
  < table lamp >
  < table model >
  < gambling-license holders must pay a table tax to the state — J.F.McDonald >
 b. : raised or processed for table use : suitable for human consumption
  < table bird >
3. : resembling a table : having a plane surface
 < table rock >
 < table reef >
 < table-jawed tweezers >
4. : tabular
 < table matter >
 < table work >
5. : of, relating to, or mounted on the table of a machine
 < table vise >
 < tool has more teeth in cutters allowing for increased table feed per minute — Steel >
III. verb
(tabled ; tabled ; tabling \-b(ə)liŋ\ ; tables)
Etymology: Middle English tablen, from table (I)
transitive verb
1. : to enter on a table : tabulate
 < quarterly distribution … is as tabled below — T.J.Grayson >
2. : to provide with food : feed
 < tabled in midmorning they ate sour pickles — Thomas Wolfe >
3.
 a. Britain : to place on the agenda : submit for discussion
  < research groups prepare the draft bills tabled by … parliamentary representatives — Barbara & Robert North >
 b. : to lay on the table
  < the hydroelectric project has been tabled, revived, tabled again — E.W.Smith >
 c. : to put on a table
  < ale, for which he too used to table his twopence — Thomas Carlyle >
  < florists tabled a large … assortment of cut flowers — Gardeners' Chronicle >
4.
 a. archaic : scarf IV 1
 b. : to strengthen (a sail) by making a broad hem on the edges attached to the boltrope
5. : to wash or screen on a table
 < table ground ore >
6. : to sediment (starch) by use of a table
intransitive verb
archaic : to take food : board, eat
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