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# tabulate

«tabulate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to arrange it in a table, in rows and columns, so it is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (tabulate, tabulates, tabulated, tabulating)

### meaning for a pupil

To tabulate information is to arrange it in a table, in rows and columns, so it is easy to read and compare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tabulate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and science lessons, pupils tabulate results: they collect data from an experiment or survey and put it in a table before drawing a graph. Phrases: «tabulate the results», «tabulate the data».

### examples

- We tabulated the results of our plant experiment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tabulate/#x1)
- Tabulate how many pets each pupil has. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tabulate/#x2)
- The scientist tabulated the temperatures for each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tabulate/#x3)
- First tabulate the data, then draw a bar chart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tabulate/#x4)
- The survey answers were tabulated by the computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tabulate/#x5)
- She tabulated her pocket money spending in a notebook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tabulate/#x6)

### note

Formal school word; you can also say «put in a table». Noun: «tabulation». In maths, tabulating makes totals and differences easy to see: add the column to find the total.

### Trees and pragmatics

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