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# table

«table» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of furniture with a flat top on legs, where you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (table, tables); verb (table, tables, tabled — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A table is a piece of furniture with a flat top on legs, where you eat, work or put things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#m1)

2) A table is also a set of numbers or words in rows and columns, like a times table or a timetable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#m2)

3) The table can mean the people sitting at it: «the whole table laughed». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

the place where things are put and taken away; a «times table» is a list of products (3 × 1, 3 × 2 …); in science a table of results records what we measured; phrases: «set the table», «clear the table», «at the table», «times tables»

### examples

- I put three spoons on the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#x1)
- There are 4 stamps on the table and 10 stamps in the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#x2)
- Mia takes 2 apples off the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#x3)
- Please set the table for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#x4)
- We learned the 7 times table today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#x5)
- Write your results in the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#x6)
- The bus table shows when the next bus comes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#x7)
- The whole table cheered when the cake arrived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#x8)
- The copyists sat at their tables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/#x9)

### note

A place, not an amount. «on the table and in the box» lists two parts to add. Trap: a «times table» is a list of products, not furniture. Countable: a table, tables. «Turn the tables» means to change who is winning.

### In the corpora

- [A bot can be a good practice partner, for example quizzing times tables.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/17/)
- [Some restaurants use simple robots, guided by sensors, to carry food to tables.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/15/)
- [Milk left out on a warm table goes sour because bacteria multiply fast in warmth and make acid; the fridge slows them down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/17/)
- [Think of an owl pellet on a classroom table: a ball of fur and tiny bones the owl coughed up, not poo.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/4/)
- [A little bottle labelled "DRINK ME" appears on the table, "which certainly was not here before", Alice says.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «table» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/table/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.