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(Q14748)Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.

The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards{{,}} or draughts.

A flat tray which can be used as a table.

A supply of food or entertainment.

A service of Holy Communion.

(backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.

A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.

A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

(metonym) The lineup of players at a given table.

(metonym) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.

(metonym) A group of diners at a given table or tables.

A two-dimensional presentation of data.

A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.

A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.

(databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.

(sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.

(musical instruments) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.

The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.

A flat gravestone supported on pillars.

(biblical) A writing tablet.

(tabulate) To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.

(give food to)) (rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.

(depict) (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.

(add to the agenda) (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.

(remove from the agenda) (US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve {{gloss|to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something}}.

(join with coaks) (obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.

(put onto a table) To put on a table.

(colloquial) To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.

(reinforce (sails)) (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.