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Table vs. Chart — What's the Difference?

Table vs. Chart — What's the Difference?

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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

Chart

A chart is a graphical representation for data visualization, in which "the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart". A chart can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of quality structure and provides different info.

Table

A set of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
The population has grown, as shown in table 1

Chart

A sheet of information in the form of a table, graph, or diagram
The doctor recorded her blood pressure on a chart

Table

A flat, typically rectangular, vertical surface; a panel.
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Chart

Make a map of (an area)
Cook charted the coasts and waters of New Zealand

Table

Present formally for discussion or consideration at a meeting
More than 200 amendments to the bill have already been tabled

Chart

(of a record) sell enough copies to enter the music charts at a particular position
The record will probably chart at about No. 74

Table

Postpone consideration of
I'd like the issue to be tabled for the next few months

Chart

A map showing coastlines, water depths, or other information of use to navigators.

Table

Strengthen (a sail) by making a hem at the edge.

Chart

An outline map on which specific information, such as scientific data, can be plotted.

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.

Chart

A sheet presenting information in the form of graphs or tables.

Table

The objects laid out for a meal on this article of furniture.

Chart

See graph1.

Table

The food and drink served at meals; fare
Kept an excellent table.

Chart

Often charts A listing of best-selling recorded music or other items
A hit single that reached number 3 on the charts.

Table

The company of people assembled around a table, as for a meal.

Chart

To make a chart of.

Table

Either of the leaves of a backgammon board.

Chart

To plan (something) in detail
Is charting a course to destruction.

Table

Tables(Obsolete) The game of backgammon.

Chart

To be ranked on a chart of best-selling items
A song that charted at the number one position last week.

Table

A plateau or tableland.

Chart

A map.

Table

A flat facet cut across the top of a precious stone.

Chart

A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.

Table

A stone or gem cut in this fashion.

Chart

A navigator's map.

Table

The front part of the body of a stringed instrument.

Chart

A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.

Table

The sounding board of a harp.

Chart

A tabular presentation of data; a table.

Table

(Architecture) A raised horizontal surface or continuous band on an exterior wall; a stringcourse.

Chart

A diagram.

Table

A part of the human palm framed by four lines, analyzed in palmistry.

Chart

A graph.

Table

An orderly arrangement of data, especially one in which the data are arranged in columns and rows in an essentially rectangular form.

Chart

A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
I snuck a look at his chart. It doesn't look good.

Table

An abbreviated list, as of contents; a synopsis.

Chart

A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
They're at the top of the charts again this week.

Table

An engraved slab or tablet bearing an inscription or device.

Chart

A written deed; a charter.

Table

(Anatomy) The inner or outer flat layer of bones of the skull separated by the diploe.

Chart

Synonym of coordinate chart.

Table

Tables A system of laws or decrees; a code
The tables of Moses.

Chart

(transitive) To draw a chart or map of.
Chart the seas

Table

To put or place on a table.

Chart

(transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.
We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.

Table

To postpone consideration of (a piece of legislation, for example); shelve.

Chart

(transitive) To record systematically.

Table

To enter in a list or table; tabulate.

Chart

To appear on a hit-recording chart.
The song has charted for 15 weeks!
The band first charted in 1994.

Table

Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

Chart

A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

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.

Chart

A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.

Table

The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.

Chart

A written deed; a charter.

Table

A flat tray which can be used as a table.

Chart

To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.

Table

A supply of food or entertainment.
The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.

Chart

A visual display of information

Table

A service of Holy Communion.

Chart

A map designed to assist navigation by air or sea

Table

(backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.

Chart

Make a chart of;
Chart the territory

Table

A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

Chart

Plan in detail;
Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam Hussein

Table

The lineup of players at a given table.
That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event

Chart

Represent by means of a graph;
Chart the data

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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