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table

Tisch

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Englisch > Deutsch
table
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] Tisch
[1] The table is set for four persons.
Der Tisch ist für vier Personen gedeckt.
Englisch > Englisch
table
1. subst. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
2. subst. An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
3. subst. A flat tray which can be used as a table.
4. subst. (poker, metonym) The lineup of players at a given table.
That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event
5. subst. A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game.
6. subst. A service of Holy Communion.
7. subst. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
8. subst. A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
9. subst. A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
The children were practising multiplication tables.
Don’t you know your tables?
Here is a table of natural logarithms.
10. subst. (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
11. subst. (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
12. subst. (musical instruments) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
13. subst. (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
14. subst. The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
15. v. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
to table fines
16. v. (now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
17. v. (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
18. v. (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
19. v. (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.
The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.
20. v. (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
21. v. To put on a table.
22. v. (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
Deutsch > Englisch
Tisch
1. subst. table (a piece of furniture with a relatively deep surface at roughly waist or knee level); (specific uses include:)
2. subst. dining table, dinner table
Kommt, der Tisch ist gedeckt! - Come, the table is set!
3. subst. desk (table used for writing)
Legen amerikanische Chefs wirklich die Füße auf den Tisch? - Do American bosses really put their feet on the desk?
4. subst. bench, workbench (table at which manual work is done)
5. subst. (figuratively, now only in compounds and expressions) meal (food served or eaten as a repast)
Herr Weber ist zu Tisch. - Mr Weber is at lunch.