Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Table

Table: noun - flatslab or board, usually a thin sheet of wood, stone, metal, a board, plate,slab, or tablet forming a surface; In architecture - a horizontal member projectingas a string course or cornice; flat rectangular vertical surface, sunk into orprojecting beyond the surrounding surface, a panel; board or other flat surfacefor a painted picture, the picture; In palmistry - a quadrangle between lines onthe palm of the hand; In anatomy - either of two dense bony layers of the skullseparated by the diploe; a flat plate or board used with or forming part of amechanism or apparatus; a flat metal plate for supporting something to beworked on; the upper part of the soundboard in an organ, perforated to admitair to the pipes; In a full table diamond – a diamond cut with a large flatupper surface surrounded by smaller facets, the flat surface of a table diamondor other gem; a flat elevated tract of land, tableland, plateau or flatmountain top; large flat circular sheet of crown glass; crystal of flattened orshort prismatic form; raised board at which people may sit, piece of furnitureconsisting of a raised flat top of wood, or other solid material, supported onone or more legs, and used to place things on for various purposes; company ofpeople at table, a group seated for dinner; an official body of people who dobusiness around a table; the provision of food for meals; supply of food in ahousehold; tabulated arrangement or statement; systematic display of numbers,words, or items in a definite and compact form; a display of information incolumns and lines occupying a single defined area; list, written or recited, ofmultiplications of two factors, weights, measures; collection of data stored inmemory as a series of records, each defined by a unique key stored with it.
'Jock, Henry, Glenda and Paul sat around the table, eatingcurry and discussing the end of season table of the Premier League.'
'When partying, which she did frequently, it wasn't uncommonfor Janice to step up onto the table, slip off her clothes and dance nude forall and sundry.'
'James created a table on the computer to show therelationship between the cost of items bought and the frequency of suchpurchases.'