Word Finder - tables

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Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

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A two-dimensional presentation of data.

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

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

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The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.

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To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.

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to table fines

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

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

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(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.

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

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The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.

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To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.

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To put on a table.

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

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Backgammon.

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The halves or quarters of a backgammon board.

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Any backgammon-like board game, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points".

There were three operating tables in the tent.

Tables were covered with white linen table cloths and adorned with violet colored napkins inside light gray napkin holders.

The brightly lit chamber was filled with tables and chairs.

Small tables seating four were well spaced for privacy, with candles lighting each table and an assortment of flatware she'd never seen before.

The tables were to be laden with all kinds of food.

This one has a whole list of junk, chairs, tables, clothes.

Now the tables were turned.

The cafeteria where she led him looked medieval at best, a stone hall with lines of crude picnic tables and dark hearths.

Three men, at three sepa­rate tables, evidently on the road for business, were all dining alone.

Taran followed his quick pace toward the door, watching as the advisors rose from their seats at the tables to join their master.

They were seated two tables away from Dean and appeared to be cele­brating something unusual in an otherwise Spartan life.

Most crowded around banquet tables still laden with foods from the night.

Jabbing it at him, she turned the tables, threatening him until he lay flat on the floor.

The results are published in his Hydrographical Tables in a convenient form for use.

Tables with designer shoes on them stood beside the truck.

There were three tables between the bar and the four booths that lined the far wall.

Memon presided over all before him, at times as still as the statues lining the halls and at times barking orders for more wine or shouting at servants who placed food wrong on the tables.

Just that fast, he'd turned the tables on her once more.

She followed the sounds of talking to discover the balcony was converted into a small buffet with café-style tables.

Tables towards the wider, more general and more humane jus gentium.

In the potential curves of the diagram the ordinates represent the hourly values expressed - as in Tables II.

The work is a small-sized quarto, containing fiftyseven pages of explanatory matter and ninety pages of tables.

The Madonna della Steccata (Our Lady of the Palisade), a fine church in the form of a Greek cross, erected between 1521 and 1539 after Zaccagni's designs, contains the tombs and monuments of many of the Bourbon and Farnese dukes of Parma, and preserves its pictures, Parmigiano's "Moses Breaking the Tables of the Law" and Anselmi's "Coronation of the Virgin."

The average value of the principal articles of import and export (special trade) over quinquennial periods following 1890 is shown in the two tables below.

The ancient town is chiefly celebrated for the famous Iguvine (less correctly Eugubine) Tables, which were discovered there in 1444, bought by the municipality in 1456, and are still preserved in the town hall.

The first period is represented, not by any complete table, but by the old unmodernised forms of Tables III.

It is necessary to notice, however, that although the general course of the stream of life is certain, there is not the same certainty as to the actual individual pedigrees of the existing forms. In the attempts to place existing creatures in approximately phylogenetic order, a striking change, due to a more logical consideration of the process of evolution, has become established and is already resolving many of the earlier difficulties and banishing from the more recent tables the numerous hypothetical intermediate forms so familiar in the older phylogenetic trees.

It sublimes in small rhombic tables or needles, and is slightly soluble in cold water, the solution possessing an acid reaction.

He also compiled astronomical tables and a treatise on the quadrant.

In correcting the elements of Delambre's solar tables he had been led to suspect an inequality overlooked by their constructor.

The investigation that brought about this result was probably the most laborious that had been made up to Airy's time in planetary theory, and represented the first specific improvement in the solar tables effected in England since the establishment of the theory of gravitation.

His request was immediately granted, and thus it came about that Hansen's famous Tables de la Lune were dedicated to La Haute Amiraute de sa Majeste la Reine de la Grande Bretagne et d'Mande.

While moving vehicles by capstans, turn tables, props, levers, &c...

If h is the water heat at the lower temperature, h l the water heat at the higher temperature, and L the latent heat at the higher temperature, the heat supply per pound of steam is equal to h1 - h2+L1, which, from the steam tables, with the values of the temperatures given, is equal to 1013 B.Th.U.

Though on her first landing Matilda only escaped capture through the misplaced chivalry of her opponent, she soon turned the tables upon him with the help of the Church and the barons of the west.

Count Agenor de Gasparin, in his Tables tournantes (Paris, 1854), gives an account of what seem to have been careful experiments, though they are hardly described in sufficient detail to enable us to form an independent judgment.

They convinced him that by some unknown force tables could be got to move without contact.

Among the ancients it was in request for poles, rafters, joists, and for the construction of winepresses, tables and musical instruments; and on that account was so valuable that a plantation of cypresses was considered a sufficient dowry for a daughter.

Elyrus stood at the foot of the White Mountains, just 1 Among the features common to the two were the syssitia, public tables, at which all the citizens dined in common.

At Vienna, from 1452, he was the pupil and associate of George Purbach (1423-1461), and they jointly undertook a reform of astronomy rendered necessary by the errors they detected in the Alphonsine Tables.

Their finances were indeed excellent; they kept regular accounts, and had already developed the modern principle of separating the civil list from the expenses of the government; but when they brought the tables of moneychangers into the temple, they were doing as the Templars had done before them, and were likely to suffer as the Templars had suffered.

In order to 'ascertain what modes of action are most conducive to the end in view, and what motives are best fitted to produce them, Bentham was led to construct marvellously exhaustive, though somewhat mechanical, tables of motives.

With all their elaboration, these tables are, however, defective, as omitting some of the highest and most influential springs of action.

Tables are constructed showing the fasted live weight, the carcase weight, and the weight of the various parts that are separated from and not included with the carcase.

While furnishing - almost unconsciously, however - additional evidence for overthrowing that classification, there is, nevertheless, no attempt made to construct a better one; and the elaborate tables of dimensions, both absolute and proportional, suggestive as is the whole tendency of the author's observations, seem not to lead to any very practical result, though the systematist's need to look beneath the integument, even in parts that are so comparatively little hidden as birds' feet, is once more made beyond all question apparent.

Another, Daniel Neal, in 1720, found Boston conversation " as polite as in most of the cities and towns in England, many of their merchants having the advantage of a free conversation with travellers; so that a gentleman from London would almost think himself at home at Boston, when he observes the number of people, their houses, their furniture, their tables, their dress and conversation, which perhaps is as splendid and showy as that of the most considerable tradesmen in London."

The tables were turned; and fighting on their own soil for the recovery of what was to them too a holy place, the Mahommedans easily carried the day.

It figured in astronomical tables until the time of Copernicus, but is now known to have no foundation in fact, being based on an error in Ptolemy's determination of precession.

The following tables show the total value of exports and imports arranged according to countries of origin or destination for1905-1906and 1908-1909; the same information for the year1905-1906with respect to the principal ports of the empire, and the tonnage of vessels cleared thereat during the year 1908-1909; and the value of the principal articles imported and exported for the year 1905-1906.

The tables on p. 440 show the respective lengths of the various Ottoman railways open and worked at the end of 1908 and the amount of kilometric guarantees which they carried - and the lengths, &c., of railways worked by the various companies according to the nationality of the concessionaire groups.