WordType Logo

Word Type

Table can be a noun or a verb.

table used as a noun:

  1. An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
  2. A flat tray which can be used as a table.
  3. A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
  4. A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
    "The children were practising multiplication tables."
  5. A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
  6. The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
  7. One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

table used as a verb:

  1. To put on a table.
  2. To propose for discussion (from to put on the table)
    "The legislature tabled the amendment, so we will start discussing it now."
  3. To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
    "The legislature tabled the amendment, so we will not be discussing it until later."
  4. To tabulate; to put into a table.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

Related Searches

What type of word is table?

As detailed above, 'table' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: The children were practising multiplication tables.
  2. Noun usage: Don’t you know your tables?
  3. Noun usage: Here is a table of natural logarithms.
  4. Verb usage: The legislature tabled the amendment, so we will start discussing it now.
  5. Verb usage: The legislature tabled the amendment, so we will not be discussing it until later.
  6. Verb usage: The motion was tabled ensuring that it would not be taken until a later date.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of table are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of table, and guess at its most common usage.

Word Type

For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

Recent Queries