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  1. noun An article of furniture supported by one or more vertical legs and having a flat horizontal surface.
  2. noun The objects laid out for a meal on this article of furniture.
  3. noun The food and drink served at meals; fare: kept an excellent table.
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  • Propped against the table was a really filthy roll of what appeared through encrustations of mud to be a collection of prints tied together with an ancient piece of twine. —  Clutch of Constables—Ngaio Marsh—Roderick Allyn 25
  • And over there on the table is an open Bible, and on the open page is a pair of spectacles and a red, crumpled handkerchief. —  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3
  • Near the bottom of the table was the demoted Francis. —  Aeon One
  • However, Mrs. Sage gave the order, and Mr. Sage and two objecting gentlemen at the table were the most liberal participants of her hospitality. —  My Memories of Eighty Years
  • Lying upon the table was a telegram addressed to Mr. Scott, saying, “Your proposition for sleeping-cars is accepted.” Mr. Pullman read this involuntarily and before he had time to refrain. —  Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
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chair ·  floor ·  room ·  desk ·  box ·  bar ·  figure ·  side ·  board ·  book ·  plate ·  head

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table:   tables ·  tabling ·  tabled
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin tabula, board.

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  1. from Middle English table, tabill, from Old French table, French table = Provencal taula = Portuguese taboa, a board, = Spanish tabla = Italian tavola, a table, = Anglo-Saxon tæfel, tæfl, a tablet, die, = Dutch tafel = Old High German tavala, tavela, Middle High German tavele, tavel, G. tafel = Swedish tafel, taffel = Danish tavle, a table, from Latin tabula, a board, plank, a board to play on, a tablet for writing on, a writing, a book of accounts, a list of votes, a painted tablet, a picture, a votive tablet, a plot of ground, a bed, Middle Latin also a bench, table, etc.; apparently, with diminutive suffix -ula, from √ tab, seen also in taberna, a hut, shed (of boards) (see tabernacle, tavern); or with diminutive suffix -bula, from √ ta (√ tan), stretch (see thin). Hence tablature, entablature, tablet, tabulate, etc.
  2. In part from Old French tabler, from Middle Latin tabulare, board, floor; in part from the modern noun. Cf. tabulate.
 

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