table

1. 1.

   hold back to a later time

   “let's postpone the exam”

   Synonymspostponeproroguehold overput overshelveset backdeferremitput off

   Broaderdelay

   Narrowercallholdsuspendprobatereprieve
2. 2.

   arrange or enter in tabular form

   Synonymstabularizetabularisetabulate

   Broaderarrange

Other forms of table

plural

tables·

past tense

tabled·

present participle

tabling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about table

What does table mean?

table means "a set of data arranged in rows and columns". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in table?

table has 2 syllables: ta-ble. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˈteɪbəl/.

What is another word for table?

Close synonyms include tabular array, mesa, board, postpone, prorogue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is table a common word?

table is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with table?

3 words rhyme with table. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.