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動詞

tabling

1. present participle and gerund of table

名詞

tabling (plural tablings)

1. A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.

   Synonym: tabulation

2. (carpentry) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
3. (nautical) A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
   • 1867, James Grange, Hints to young shipmasters in drafting and cutting ships' rigging and sails:

     On the luffs and after leaches of jibs the tabling ought to be 3 inches, on the foot 1 inches

4. (US) A setting-aside of a topic from discussion.
   • 1978 April 22, “Woodstock, NY Rights Ordinance Killed in Rules Stalemate”, in Gay Community News, page 6:

     The Woodstock Town Board dropped the controversial anti-discrimination ordinance after a meeting marked by a series of tablings and withdrawals of various resolutions.

5. (UK) The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
6. (metonymic) Representing a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
7. (obsolete) board; support
   • 1614, Richard Bernard, Terence in English:

     My daughter hath there already now of me ten poundes, which I account to be given for her tabling : after this ten poundes will follow another, for her apparel

8. (programming) The uses of a table that contains the results of subproblems which can then be used later in the solving of a problem when the same subproblem arises again.

アナグラム

• batling, blating