Bread and Table

noun

• Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
  • synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life
• Informal terms for money.
  • synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

verb

• Cover with bread crumbs.
  • usage: "bread the pork chops before frying them"

• (a.) To spread.
• (v.t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.
• (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
• (n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

noun

• A set of data arranged in rows and columns.
  • usage: "see table 1"
  • synonyms: tabular array
• A piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs.
  • usage: "it was a sturdy table"
• A piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it.
  • usage: "I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant"
• Flat tableland with steep edges.
  • usage: "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water"
  • synonyms: mesa
• A company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game.
  • usage: "he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks"
• Food or meals in general.
  • usage: "she sets a fine table"; "room and board"
  • synonyms: board

verb

• Hold back to a later time.
  • usage: "let's postpone the exam"
  • synonyms: postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off
• Arrange or enter in tabular form.
  • synonyms: tabularize, tabularise, tabulate

• (n.) A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written or painted; a tablet.
• (n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts.
• (v.t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
• (v.t.) To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
• (v.t.) To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
• (n.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium.
• (n.) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.
• (n.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane.
• (n.) Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing or the like, may be produced.
• (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) a memorandum book.
• (n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; especially, a band of stone or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table.
• (n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table.
• (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
• (n.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.
• (v.i.) To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
• (v.t.) To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
• (v.t.) To lay or place on a table, as money.
• (v.t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
• (n.) The company assembled round a table.
• (n.) A circular plate of crown glass.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.
• (v.t.) To supply with food; to feed.