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Table (disambiguation); Tables; Tabular

tables         
multiplication tables.
Tables game         
  • ''Seis, dos, y as'' from the 13th century [[Libro de los juegos]]
  • Backgammon set from around the 10th century, China
  • nard]] to the Indian [[Raja]]s
  • A tables board found in the shipwreck of the [[Mary Rose]]
  • Vasa]]''.
  • Roman ''[[Ludus duodecim scriptorum]]'' board from the 2nd century, Aphrodisias
  • The situation in Zeno's game of tabula when he had an unlucky dice throw
  • tavla]]'' in [[Turkey]].
  • ''The Backgammon Players'' by [[Theodoor Rombouts]], 1634
CLASS OF BOARD GAMES
Brädspel; Tables (board games); Backgammon variant; Long gammon; Bradspel; Braedspel; Tables board; Tables (board game); Tables (board game family); Tables family; Tables games
Tables games are a class of board game that includes backgammon and which are played on a tables board, typically with two rows of 12 vertical markings called points. Players roll dice to determine the movement of pieces.
table         
n.
piece of furniture
1) to lay (esp. BE), set (esp. AE) a table
2) to clear a table
3) a card; coffee; dining-room; dressing; drop-leaf; end; folding; kitchen; night; operating; ping-pong; pool; tray; writing table
4) (AE) a training table (for members of a team)
5) around, round a table (to sit around a table)
6) at the table/at table (BE) ('while eating') (we never discuss politics at the dinner table)
table for conducting discussions, negotiations
negotiating session
7) a bargaining, conference, negotiating; round table
8) at the table (at the negotiating table)
enumeration, list
9) to compile, draw up a table
10) a conversion; genealogy; mortality; multiplication; periodic table
11) logarithmic tables
12) in a table (to give data in tables)
level
13) a water table
misc.
14) to turn the tables on smb. ('to reverse the roles in a struggle with smb.'); under the table ('illegally')

Wikipedia

Table

Table may refer to:

  • Table (furniture), a piece of furniture with a flat surface and one or more legs
  • Table (landform), a flat area of land
  • Table (information), a data arrangement with rows and columns
  • Table (database), how the table data arrangement is used within databases
  • Calligra Tables, a spreadsheet application
  • Mathematical table
  • Table (parliamentary procedure)
  • Tables (board game)
  • Table, surface of the sound board (music) of a string instrument
  • Al-Ma'ida, the fifth surah of the Qur'an, usually translated as “The Table”
  • Water table
Pronunciation examples for tables
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2. table.
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3. table.
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4. tables.
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5. table.
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Examples of use of tables
1. Oxford University only began to publish the tables, known as the Norrington tables, in 2005.
2. League tables continue to be a failed system." Key stage 2 tables 2005 key stage 2 results by LEA
3. They remember mnemonics and their multiplication tables.
4. "If the DR common core main budgeting tables (DR tables 1 to 3) showed separately the spending under each of the budgeting control aggregates, DEL and AME, by area of business," asks one, "would you still require SBI tables 3.1 and 3.2 for the ‘complex‘ departments (ie would Tables 3.3 and 3.4 be sufficient)?" Answers by September 12, please.
5. Some answers were predictable; there is still no enthusiasm for league tables or statutory tests, with 73% of heads calling for the abolition of performance tables.