tabling
English edit
Verb edit
tabling
- present participle and gerund of table
Noun edit
tabling (plural tablings)
- A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
- Synonym: tabulation
- (carpentry) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
- (nautical) A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
- 1867, James Grange, Hints to young shipmasters in drafting and cutting ships' rigging and sails:
- On the luffs and after leaches of jibs the tabling ought to be 3 inches, on the foot 1 inches
- (US) A setting-aside of a topic from discussion.
- 1978 April 22, “Woodstock, NY Rights Ordinance Killed in Rules Stalemate”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
- The Woodstock Town Board dropped the controversial anti-discrimination ordinance after a meeting marked by a series of tablings and withdrawals of various resolutions.
- (UK) The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
- (obsolete) board; support
- 1614, Richard Bernard, Terence in English:
- 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
- (programming) 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.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tabling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)