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.