Skip to content

tabling

noun

  1. make available for consideration
  2. act of postponing consideration of
L1464546 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

noun

  1. A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.
  2. The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
  3. A broad hem on the edge of a sail.

    On the luffs and after leaches of jibs the tabling ought to be 3 inches, on the foot 1 inches

  4. A setting-aside of a topic from discussion.

    The Woodstock Town Board dropped the controversial anti-discrimination ordinance after a meeting marked by a series of tablings and withdrawals of various resolutions.

  5. The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
  6. Representing a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
  7. board; support

    My daughter hath there already now of me ten poundes, which I account to be given for her tabling : after this ten poundes will follow another, for her apparel

  8. The uses of a table that contains the results of subproblems which can then be used later in the solving of a problem when the same subproblem arises again.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of table