n Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
n An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
n The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
n A flat tray which can be used as a table.
n A supply of food or entertainment.
n A service of Holy Communion.
n (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
n A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
n (poker, metonymically) The lineup of players at a given table.
n (roleplaying games, metonymically) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
n (waitstaff, metonymically) A group of diners at a given table or tables.
n A two-dimensional presentation of data.
n A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
n A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
n (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
n (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
n (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
n The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
v To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
v (now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
v (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
v (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.
v (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
v (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
v To put on a table.
v (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.