table
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 →
2) A table is also a set of numbers or words in rows and columns, like a times table or a timetable. tree →
3) The table can mean the people sitting at it: «the whole table laughed». tree →
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 →
- There are 4 stamps on the table and 10 stamps in the box. tree →
- Mia takes 2 apples off the table. tree →
- Please set the table for dinner. tree →
- We learned the 7 times table today. tree →
- Write your results in the table. tree →
- The bus table shows when the next bus comes. tree →
- The whole table cheered when the cake arrived. tree →
- The copyists sat at their tables. tree →
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.
- Some restaurants use simple robots, guided by sensors, to carry food to tables.
- Milk left out on a warm table goes sour because bacteria multiply fast in warmth and make acid; the fridge slows them down.
- Think of an owl pellet on a classroom table: a ball of fur and tiny bones the owl coughed up, not poo.
- A little bottle labelled "DRINK ME" appears on the table, "which certainly was not here before", Alice says.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «table» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.