Array vs. Table — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Array and Table
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Array
An array is a systematic arrangement of similar objects, usually in rows and columns.
Table
A set of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
The population has grown, as shown in table 1
Array
To set out for display or use; place in an orderly arrangement
Arrayed the whole regiment on the parade ground.
Table
A piece of furniture with a flat top and one or more legs, providing a level surface for eating, writing, or working at
She put the plate on the table
He rang the restaurant to book a table for lunch
Array
To dress, especially in fine clothes; adorn.
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Table
A flat, typically rectangular, vertical surface; a panel.
Array
An orderly, often imposing arrangement
An array of royal jewels.
Table
Present formally for discussion or consideration at a meeting
More than 200 amendments to the bill have already been tabled
Array
An impressively large number, as of persons or objects
An array of heavily armed troops.
An array of spare parts.
Table
Postpone consideration of
I'd like the issue to be tabled for the next few months
Array
Splendid attire; fine clothing.
Table
Strengthen (a sail) by making a hem at the edge.
Array
A rectangular arrangement of quantities in rows and columns, as in a matrix.
Table
A piece of furniture usually supported by one or more legs and having a flat top surface on which objects can be placed
A dinner table.
A poker table.
Array
Numerical data linearly ordered by magnitude.
Table
The objects laid out for a meal on this article of furniture.
Array
An arrangement of usually identical devices, often sensors, that function as a unit
An array of solar panels.
Table
The food and drink served at meals; fare
Kept an excellent table.
Array
(Computers) A group of memory elements accessed by one or more indices.
Table
The company of people assembled around a table, as for a meal.
Array
Clothing and ornamentation.
Table
Either of the leaves of a backgammon board.
Array
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Table
Tables(Obsolete) The game of backgammon.
Array
A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
Table
A plateau or tableland.
Array
An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
Table
A flat facet cut across the top of a precious stone.
Array
Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
Drawn up in battle array
Table
A stone or gem cut in this fashion.
Array
A large collection.
We offer a dazzling array of choices.
Table
The front part of the body of a stringed instrument.
Array
(mathematics) Common name for matrix.
Table
The sounding board of a harp.
Array
(programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
Table
(Architecture) A raised horizontal surface or continuous band on an exterior wall; a stringcourse.
Array
(legal) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
Table
A part of the human palm framed by four lines, analyzed in palmistry.
Array
(military) A militia.
Table
An orderly arrangement of data, especially one in which the data are arranged in columns and rows in an essentially rectangular form.
Array
A group of hedgehogs.
Table
An abbreviated list, as of contents; a synopsis.
Array
A microarray.
Table
An engraved slab or tablet bearing an inscription or device.
Array
To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.
Table
(Anatomy) The inner or outer flat layer of bones of the skull separated by the diploe.
Array
To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
Table
Tables A system of laws or decrees; a code
The tables of Moses.
Array
(legal) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
Table
To put or place on a table.
Array
Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
Wedged together in the closest array.
Table
To postpone consideration of (a piece of legislation, for example); shelve.
Array
The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
A gallant array of nobles and cavaliers.
Table
To enter in a list or table; tabulate.
Array
An imposing series of things.
Their long array of sapphire and of gold.
Table
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
Array
Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
Table
An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
Set that dish on the table over there, please.
Array
A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
Table
The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
Array
To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
By torch and trumpet fast arrayed,Each horseman drew his battle blade.
These doubts will be arrayed before their minds.
Table
A flat tray which can be used as a table.
Array
To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; - applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen.
In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed.
Table
A supply of food or entertainment.
The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
Array
To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
Table
A service of Holy Communion.
Array
An orderly arrangement;
An array of troops in battle order
Table
(backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
Array
An impressive display;
It was a bewildering array of books
His tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall
Table
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
Array
Especially fine or decorative clothing
Table
The lineup of players at a given table.
That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event
Array
An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics
Table
A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
Array
Lay out in a line
Table
A group of diners at a given table or tables.
Table 9 wants another round of beers.
John always gets the best tips because he gets the best tables! It's not fair!
Array
Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
Table
A two-dimensional presentation of data.
Table
A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
Table
A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
The children were practising multiplication tables.
Don’t you know your tables?
Here is a table of natural logarithms.
Table
A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
Table
(sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
Table
(musical instruments) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
Table
The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
Table
To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
To table fines
Table
To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
Table
(obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
Table
(non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
Table
To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something.
The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.
The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.
Table
To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
Table
To put on a table.
Table
(nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
Table
A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble.
Table
A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet
And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
And stand there with your tables to gleanThe golden sentences.
Table
Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced.
The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which, with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don Philip, is a most incomparable table.
St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant.
Table
Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule.
Table
A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.
Table
An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.
We may againGive to our tables meat.
The nymph the table spread.
Table
A list of substances and their properties; especially, the a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
Table
Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.
Table
Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc.
Table
The company assembled round a table.
I drink the general joy of the whole table.
Table
The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.
Mistress of a fairer tableHath not history for fable.
Table
One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploë, in the walls of the cranium.
Table
A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table.
Table
The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice.
Table
A circular plate of crown glass.
A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an average nine pounds.
Table
The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
Table
A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; - called also perspective plane.
Table
The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.
Table
To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
Table
To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation.
Table
To supply with food; to feed.
Table
To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
Table
To lay or place on a table, as money.
Table
In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.
Table
To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
Table
To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
Table
To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.
Table
A set of data arranged in rows and columns;
See table 1
Table
A piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs;
It was a sturdy table
Table
A piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it;
I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant
Table
Flat tableland with steep edges;
The tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water
Table
A company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game;
He entertained the whole table with his witty remarks
Table
Food or meals in general;
She sets a fine table
Room and board
Table
Hold back to a later time;
Let's postpone the exam
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