tabulate

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Someone should tabulate, after this election, how many times the pundits have exposed themselves as incompetent boobs since the primaries.

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  1. transitive verb To arrange in tabular form; condense and list.
  2. transitive verb To cut or form with a plane surface.
  3. adjective Having a plane surface.

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  • I can tabulate, for instance, the Yorke family for the Taylors, Mr. Moore—Mr. Cartwright, and Mr. Helstone is page 444 p. 444 clearly meant for Mr. Robertson, though the authoress has evidently got her idea of his character through an unfavourable medium, and does not understand the full value of one of the most admirable characters I ever knew or expect to know. —  Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle
  • Residents brought out so many cubic pounds of e-waste last weekend officials have yet to tabulate exactly how much was collected, Keep Angleton Beautiful Executive Director Jamae Bowman said. —  The Facts: News
  • It is very easy to tabulate where you are and that is the first step to figuring out where you'd like to go. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • A spokesman for the United Church said it has been named in 1,100 claims, but he said the church had not done a "statistical analysis" to tabulate the number of claims for sexual abuse. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • Tools limiting drag distances to a range, would continue to tabulate past their allowed limits, which could result in the user dragging blindly with no effect until the drag distance fell between the limits again. —  20 Newest Free Software Downloads - Freeware Files.com
 

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  1. Latin tabula, writing + -ate1.

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  1. from Latin tabulatus, boarded, floored (New Latin shaped like a table, provided with tabulæ), from tabula, a, board, plank, table: see table.
  2. from Latin tabula, a table, + -ate. Cf. table, v.
 

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