Shelve vs. Table — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Shelve and Table
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Shelve
To place or arrange on a shelf
Shelved the products in the grocery store.
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
Shelve
To put aside as though on a shelf
"As usual, Dixon shelved this question" (Kingsley Amis).
Table
A set of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
The population has grown, as shown in table 1
Shelve
(transitive) To place on a shelf.
The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.
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Table
A flat, typically rectangular, vertical surface; a panel.
Shelve
(transitive) To set aside; to quit or postpone.
They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.
Table
Present formally for discussion or consideration at a meeting
More than 200 amendments to the bill have already been tabled
Shelve
To furnish with shelves.
To shelve a closet or a library
Table
Postpone consideration of
I'd like the issue to be tabled for the next few months
Shelve
(slang) To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.
Table
Strengthen (a sail) by making a hem at the edge.
Shelve
To have sex with.
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.
Shelve
(intransitive) To slope; to incline; to form into shelves.
Table
The objects laid out for a meal on this article of furniture.
Shelve
A rocky ledge or shelf.
Table
The food and drink served at meals; fare
Kept an excellent table.
Shelve
To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.
Table
The company of people assembled around a table, as for a meal.
Shelve
To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim.
Table
Either of the leaves of a backgammon board.
Shelve
To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.
Table
Tables(Obsolete) The game of backgammon.
Shelve
Hold back to a later time;
Let's postpone the exam
Table
A plateau or tableland.
Shelve
Place on a shelve;
Shelve books
Table
A flat facet cut across the top of a precious stone.
Table
A stone or gem cut in this fashion.
Table
The front part of the body of a stringed instrument.
Table
The sounding board of a harp.
Table
(Architecture) A raised horizontal surface or continuous band on an exterior wall; a stringcourse.
Table
A part of the human palm framed by four lines, analyzed in palmistry.
Table
An orderly arrangement of data, especially one in which the data are arranged in columns and rows in an essentially rectangular form.
Table
An abbreviated list, as of contents; a synopsis.
Table
An engraved slab or tablet bearing an inscription or device.
Table
(Anatomy) The inner or outer flat layer of bones of the skull separated by the diploe.
Table
Tables A system of laws or decrees; a code
The tables of Moses.
Table
To put or place on a table.
Table
To postpone consideration of (a piece of legislation, for example); shelve.
Table
To enter in a list or table; tabulate.
Table
Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
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.
Table
The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
Table
A flat tray which can be used as a table.
Table
A supply of food or entertainment.
The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
Table
A service of Holy Communion.
Table
(backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
Table
A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
Table
The lineup of players at a given table.
That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event
Table
A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
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!
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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