table

table
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. board, slab; desk, counter; food, diet, fare, cuisine, menu; index, compendium, catalog, chart, tabulation, list, schedule; tableland, plateau, mesa. See horizontal.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [A piece of furniture]
Syn. desk, pulpit, stand, board, counter, slab, dresser, bureau, lectern, sideboard, washstand, sink, horse, tea wagon, trivet; see also furniture .
Types of tables include: writing table, secretary, dining table, kitchen table, card table, drafting table, vanity table, operating table, altar table, retable, end table, coffee table, tea table, drop-leaf table, laboratory table, library table, refectory table.
2. [A statement in tabulated form]
Syn. schedule, digest, synopsis, report, record, chart, register, spreadsheet, compendium, index, appendix, table of contents, tabular illustration, statistics; see also summary .
3. [Food]
Syn. meat and drink, things to eat, spread; see food , meal 2 .
turn the tables*,
Syn. reverse, alter, switch; see change 1 .
under the table*,
4.
Syn. covertly, surreptitiously, not obviously; see secretly .
5.
Syn. into a stupor, dead-drunk, out cold; see drunk .
v.
Syn. postpone, defer, put off; see delay 1 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)
I
n.
1. furniture board, counter, sideboard, stand, dining room table, drop-leaf table, coffee table, end table, parsons table, buffet, writing table, desk.
2. list chart, graph, diagram, column, tabulation, index, register.
II
v.
postpone, delay, shelve, *put on the back burner, put aside, suspend, hold off, sideline, defer, pigeonhole, freeze.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun An orderly columnar display of data: chart, tabulation. See KNOWLEDGE. II verb To put off until a later time: adjourn, defer1, delay, hold off, hold up, postpone, remit, shelve, stay1, suspend, waive. Informal: wait. Idiom: put on ice. See DO.

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