tables English

Meaning tables meaning

What does tables mean?

tables noun

— Backgammon.

— (backgammon) The halves or quarters of a backgammon board.

— Any backgammon-like board game, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points".

Synonyms tables synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as tables?

tables English » English

one who makes lists

list-maker

inventories

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How do I use tables in a sentence?

Simple sentences

There are tables at the restaurant.

The fork made its way to Western tables several hundred years later, but it was not immediately accepted.

She waits tables for a living.

Chairs and tables were damaged.

The tables have turned.

There are no tables in the room.

This is the first time I've ever wiped all the tables.

Tom was sitting three tables away from us.

Tom sat down at one of the tables.

At school, we had to recite times tables parrot-fashion.

Let's sit at one of the tables near the back.

The teacher caned the children if they misbehaved or were unable to recite their times tables.

The heavy oak tables were covered with snow-white linen.

Put the tables end to end.

The children are learning the multiplication tables by heart.

They don't use chairs or tables.

In this room there are over 50 tables.

Tom was sitting alone at one of the tables near the door.

I'm not wiping your tables.

I'm waiting tables.

Movie subtitles

Bros before. tables.

As you can see, we have plenty of open tables.

Excuse me but it is not allowed to move tables into passage.

Let's dance while they're fixing the tables.

Get those tables together.

Slaves, bring tables!

To the tables, everybody, and stuff yourselves!

Dirty tables aggravate me.

He gives such big tips that we at the other tables feel hard done by.

Chairs, tables, up against the windows!

You mean, on your roulette tables.

He never went near those roulette tables.

He ain't got no tables on the ceiling.

Are you playing the tables much here?

Go wait on the tables!

He just won you at the gambling tables.

You mean on your roulette tables.

We'll all remember. He never went near those tables.

Where you like to sit? We used to come here years ago and there used to be tables outside.

Get back to your tables!

Mother St John thinks dusty tables shock God.

Later, I'll bring in the birdcage, roulette wheels, dice tables.

They don't build billiard tables today like they used to do in Grandfather's day.

The tables where kids play Ju-Ji-Mon, that's the realm of the nerds.

People from nearby tables came over.

Dirty tables aggravate me. -You're gonna make this shot, you know.

Barricade the doors! Chairs, tables, up against the windows!

These are your tables.

All right, the room is full of roulette tables!

I like roulette tables.

Dice. Chuck-a-luck. Roulette tables.

We will go to the casino again. but upstairs to the tables, if you like.

Get back to your tables. Get back here.

Get back to your tables.

I must go and order the tables.

News and current affairs

After the US military action in Iraq, the tables may be turning in surprising ways.

Investment bankers wait with bated breath for the merger and acquisition league tables, even though the link between a high ranking and profitability is somewhere between loose and non-existent.

So far, the message from the most recent tables is not too alarming for the incumbents.

Since it does not include equations or statistical tables, they would argue, it is not serious work that is worthy of scholarly attention.

It had no chance to learn - and probably never will - that picnic tables and garbage cans are defended by forest rangers with orders to kill.

Interest in the arcane principles of finance has always been an inclination particular to people who love to pore over numerical tables and study mathematical formulas.

Whereas the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been an island of violence and turmoil in a relatively stable (if oppressed) region, now the tables are turned.

Indeed, the US falls below Greece and Slovakia, countries that people do not typically regard as role models or as competitors with the US at the top of the league tables.

Although Egypt's generals are by no means as threatened as their Algerian counterparts were in December 1991, they do have enough power to flip the tables.

At the end of a day digging coal, teaching children, or waiting tables, Russians now want reasonable services, a logical tax system, and regular paychecks.

Either way, there is no doubting the global obsession with league tables nowadays.

Indeed, one senses a certain satisfaction in some countries that have been the targets of human rights criticism by the US; now they sense an opportunity to turn the tables.

Now, the tables have turned, with American leaders on the receiving end of such calls.

In Russia, however, the KGB is famous for turning the tables in any struggle with the Kremlin apparat.

Just because European governments have failed to put bread on their constituents' tables doesn't mean that the European Central Bank should likewise fail in its job of promoting price stability in the euro zone.

LONDON - There was a time when league tables were to be found only on the sports pages of newspapers.

Bank league tables have been with us for a while, and now tend to be based on capital strength, rather than asset volume, which is an improvement of sorts, but still not very meaningful.

There are also now several different league tables - which are generating considerable angst - that rank financial centers based largely on surveys of firms.

Water tables are dropping where farmers are lucky enough to have wells, and rainfall has become increasingly unpredictable.

There are school and university league tables, rankings of companies on profitability or corporate social responsibility, tables of happiness indicators by country, and tables that attempt to rank consumer brands by value.