Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To arrange in tabular form; condense and list.
- v. To cut or form with a plane surface.
- adj. Having a plane surface.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Shaped like a table; forming a tablature; tabular.
- Provided with tabulæ, as a coral: specifically applied to the Tabulata: as, a tubulate coral.
- To give a tabular or flat surface to; make or form as a table, or with tables.
- To put or form into a table or tables; collect or arrange in lines or eolumns; formulate tabularly: as, to tabulate statistics or a list of names.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.
- v. To shape with a flat surface.
WordNet 3.0
- v. arrange or enter in tabular form
- v. shape or cut with a flat surface
Etymologies
- From Late Latin tabulātus, perfect passive participle of tabulō ("I fit with planks"), from Latin tabula ("board, plank"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin tabula, writing + -ate1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In Bluespec, Lennart needed to introduce a 'tabulate' function which produces a table-driven implementation of its function argument.”
“Lennart then explored using 'tabulate' directly in Haskell, but found it next to impossible to get the GHC simplifier to do enough transformation.”
“Still, when you tabulate the net effect of all of Richmond's additions and subtractions, the tally leaves you contentedly in the plus column.”
The Washington Post: Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII'
“Remember -- the Census Bureau doesn't just tabulate the nation's population every decade, it also compiles important economic, employment, educational and demographic statistics that are used for everything from determining the allocation of federal funding, where to build new roads and how to market new products.”
“One of my jobs was touring the squadron barracks every morning with a clipboard to tabulate the damage and vandalism done by drunken airmen.”
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
“We asked Ms. Bocanegra to select an aspect of her piece to tabulate, a request she accommodated by calculating which words appear most frequently in her tale.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Divine Power of a Solitary Voice
“Not only have they taken the unprecedented action to deny extensions when unemployment is over seven percent, they've given the banks and those who tabulate the unemployed the precedent to codify those who've exhausted their unemployment as no longer unemployed.”
The Huffington Post: Janet Ritz: The Non-Mandated Society: Why Obama's Mortgage Programs Fail
“Despite this, the authorities were able to tabulate the vote expeditiously.”
The Huffington Post: Nikolas Kozloff: Part III: What Is the Brazilian Brand?
“The medical community, including scientists and places like the CDC measure incidence rates for diseases all the time and quite accurately .... they even tabulate the risk of occurence for things like epidemics.”
Senate health care bill to allow caps on annual benefits, Democratic aides say
“When we asked Brian Kulick, the artistic director of the off-Broadway Classic Stage Company, to tabulate which playwrights the company had most often produced in its 44-year history, he wasn't surprised to find Shakespeare atop the list, nor that Sophocles beat out the other Greek tragedians.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tabulate’.
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see ulater, alligator
Discombobulate-enkindled 'ulate' words.
discombobulate, undulate, perambulate, ululate, tabulate, postulate, particulate, articulate, inarticulate, populate, manipulate, capitulate and 95 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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GRE
partisan, erudite, insular, cosmopolitan, imperturbable, facetious, recapitulate, repudiate, inscrutable, baseness, bailiwick, freeloader and 315 more...
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hannah's Words
perpetuity, portmanteau, scintillate, elucidate, surreptitious, reticulate, cavilling, laudatory, milquetoast, inimitable, schadenfreude, ancillary and 212 more...
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