table

• food or meals in general
• hold back to a later time
• To supply with food
• A memorandum book
• flat tableland with steep edges
• a set of data arranged in rows and columns
• a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
• a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it
• a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
• arrange or enter in tabular form
• A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board
• A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted
• Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced
• Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view
• A view of the contents of a work
• A list of substances and their properties
• Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc
• The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand
• An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working
• Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of
• The company assembled round a table
• One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium
• A stringcourse which includes an offset
• The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played
• One of the divisions of a backgammon board
• The games of backgammon and of draughts
• A circular plate of crown glass
• The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles
• A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon
• The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened
• To form into a table or catalogue
• To delineate, as on a table
• To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping
• To lay or place on a table, as money
• In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table
• To enter upon the docket
• To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope
• To live at the table of another

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