table
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of usesFurniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.: An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
» Could we have a table outside?
Könnten wir einen Tisch im Freien bekommen?
Можно нам столик на улице?
Можна нам сісти за столик на вулиці?
Можна, ми сядемо за столик на дворі?
Meaning
31 sensesFurniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
(countable)An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
Set that dish on the table over there, please.
a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
(countable)A flat tray which can be used as a table.
подно́сpodnós
підно́сpidnós
(broadly, countable)A supply of food or entertainment.
The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
food or meals in general
(countable, metonymically)A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
(countable)A service of Holy Communion.
(countable)The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
(countable)One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into an inner and outer table.
One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into an inner and outer table.
(countable, historical, plural)The game of backgammon, or any of several related games.
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game; a meeting at a table.
a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game; a meeting at a table.
(uncountable)The act of assembling to eat; a gathering to eat, especially at a restaurant.
Time to come to table.
Join us at the table I booked at the restaurant.
(metonymically)The lineup of players at a given table.
That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event.
(metonymically)A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
Examples
3466 sentencesCould we have a table outside?
Можна нам сісти за столик на вулиці?
ruМожно нам столик на улице?
deKönnten wir einen Tisch im Freien bekommen?
Put the gun on the table.
Поклади пістолет на стіл.
ruПоложи пистолет на стол.
deLeg die Pistole auf den Tisch.
The table doesn't take much room.
Стіл не займає багато місця.
ruСтол не занимает много места.
deDer Tisch nimmt nicht viel Platz weg.
This table is made of wood.
Цей стіл - дерев'яний.
ruЭтот стол сделан из дерева.
deDieser Tisch ist aus Holz.
Don't put books on the table.
Не клади книги на стіл.
ruНе клади книги на стол.
deLeg keine Bücher auf den Tisch.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul,Inherited from Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (“board”); also as tæfl, tæfel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”). The sense of “piece of furniture” is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used bēod or bord instead for this meaning: see board. Doublet of tabula and tavla.
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Forms
plural: tablesSynonyms
5 synonyms- a set of data arranged in rows and columns:tabular array
- food or meals in general:board
- flat tableland with steep edges:mesa
Word family
130 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A1Home and furniture — Because the lesson uses it
- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- on the table
- under the table
- set the table
- the kitchen table
- table near the
- off the table
- at the table
- dining room table
- at a table
- clear the table
- a table near
- kitchen table