Table



GRE 考研

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.搁置, 不加考虑
• ［英］ v.搁置, 不加考虑 ( to remove from consideration indefinitely)
• ［类］ 反义词: consider ( 考虑)
• ［例］ The investigation was temporarily tabled due to more pressing business.

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Usage: often attributive
• Etymology: Middle English, from Old English tabule & Anglo-French table; both from Latin tabula board, tablet, list
• Date: before 12th century
• 1. tablet 1a
• 2.
  • a. plural backgammon
  • b. one of the two leaves of a backgammon board or either half of a leaf
• 3.
  • a. a piece of furniture consisting of a smooth flat slab fixed on legs
  • b.
    • (1) a supply or source of food
    • (2) an act or instance of assembling to eat ; meal <sit down to table>
  • c.
    • (1) a group of people assembled at or as if at a table
    • (2) a legislative or negotiating session <the bargaining table>
• 4. stringcourse
• 5.
  • a. a systematic arrangement of data usually in rows and columns for ready reference
  • b. a condensed enumeration ; list <a table of contents>
• 6. something that resembles a table especially in having a plane surface: as
  • a. the upper flat surface of a cut precious stone — see brilliant illustration
  • b.
    • (1) tableland
    • (2) a horizontal stratum

II. transitive verb (tabled; tabling)

• Date: 15th century
• 1. to enter in a table
• 2.
  • a. British to place on the agenda
  • b. to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration indefinitely
  • c. to put on a table

III. adjective

• Date: 1547
• 1. suitable for a table or for use at a table <a table lamp>
• 2. suitable for serving at a table <table grapes>
• 3. proper for conduct at a table <table manners>

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