table of contents
目录,总目,目次
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- : an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- : such a piece of furniture specifically used for serving food to those seated at it.
- : the food placed on a table to be eaten: She sets a good table.
- : a group of persons at a table, as for a meal, game, or business transaction.
- : a gaming table.
- : a flat or plane surface; a level area.
- : a tableland or plateau.
- : a concise list or guide: The table of contents in the front of the book includes chapter names and page numbers.
- : an arrangement of words, numbers, or signs, or combinations of them, as in parallel columns, to exhibit a set of facts or relations in a definite, compact, and comprehensive form; a synopsis or scheme.
- : Astronomy. the constellation Mensa.
- : a flat and relatively thin piece of wood, stone, metal, or other hard substance, especially one artificially shaped for a particular purpose.
- : Architecture. a course or band, especially of masonry, having a distinctive form or position.a distinctively treated surface on a wall.
- : a smooth, flat board or slab on which inscriptions may be put.
- : tables, the tablets on which certain collections of laws were anciently inscribed: the tables of the Decalogue. the laws themselves.
- : Anatomy. the inner or outer hard layer or any of the flat bones of the skull.
- : Music. a sounding board.
- : Jewelry. the upper horizontal surface of a faceted gem.a gem with such a surface.
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ta·bled, ta·bling.
- : to place on a table.
- : to enter in or form into a table or list.
- : Parliamentary Procedure. Chiefly U.S.to lay aside for future discussion, usually with a view to postponing or shelving the matter indefinitely.British.to present for discussion.
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- : of, relating to, or for use on a table: a table lamp.
- : suitable for serving at a table or for eating or drinking: table grapes.
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Examples
If primary producers captured one percent of the incipient solar energy, then those were the chips on the table to get passed around.
We don’t actually come together at the same table until the script is complete.
Net-neutrality advocates took that as a victory, but it is only now that the CJEU has confirmed that zero rating is off the table.
I think we have a resolution that will allow us to process next week and put protein on America’s table.
Our tables ended up being next to each other’s, so we kept talking.
He gets up and goes over to their table and introduces himself, and he says, ‘Hello, I’m Oliver Reed.
Joel Osteen wants to talk about muting your cell phone at the dinner table.
A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.
That means any response that could result in physical damage inside North Korea is off the table.
A table creaking under the weight of a Christmas banquet, a classic celebration of binge eating and drinking.
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
There were at least a dozen ladies seated round the big table at the Parsonage.
Miss Smith immediately rises from the table, puts up her dear little mouth to her papa to be kissed.
He sighed as he laid the papers on the table; for he thought the task would be a harder one than even his own immolation.