tabling
noun8 senses
- 1A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.
- 2The letting of one timber into another by alternate…
- 3A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
- 4A setting-aside of a topic from discussion.
- 5The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
- 6Representing a company or organization (at an…
- 7board; support
- 8The uses of a table that contains the results of…
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A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.
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Business, Carpentry, Construction, Manufacturing The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
- On the luffs and after leaches of jibs the tabling ought to be 3 inches, on the foot 1 inches1867, James Grange, Hints to young shipmasters in drafting and cutting ships' rigging and sails:
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US 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.1978 April 22, “Woodstock, NY Rights Ordinance Killed in Rules Stalemate”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
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UK The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
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Metonymically Representing a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
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Obsolete 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 apparel1614, Richard Bernard, Terence in English:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences 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.