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Table (furniture), the Glossary

️Fri May 13 1927

A table is an item of furniture with a raised flat top and is supported most commonly by 1 to 4 legs (although some can have more).^[1]

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Aircraft

An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.

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Alabaster

Alabaster is a mineral and a soft rock used for carvings and as a source of plaster powder.

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Alarm clock

An alarm clock or alarm is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of people at a specified time.

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An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.

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Alvar Aalto

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism.

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Banquet

A banquet is a formal large meal where a number of people consume food together.

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Bar stools are a type of tall stool, often with a foot rest to support the feet.

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Bedroom

A bedroom or bedchamber is a room situated within a residential or accommodation unit characterised by its usage for sleeping.

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Billiard table

A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. Table (furniture) and billiard table are tables (furniture).

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Camping

Camping is a form of outdoor recreation or outdoor education involving overnight stays with a basic temporary shelter such as a tent.

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Card game

A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary).

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Caster

A caster (or castor) is an undriven wheel that is designed to be attached to the bottom of a larger object (the "vehicle") to enable that object to be moved.

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Chabudai

A is a short-legged table used in traditional Japanese homes. Table (furniture) and Chabudai are tables (furniture).

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Chair

A chair is a type of seat, typically designed for one person and consisting of one or more legs, a flat or slightly angled seat and a back-rest. Table (furniture) and chair are furniture.

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Charlemagne

Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.

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Château

A château (plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.

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Chess table

A chess table is a table built with features to make it useful for playing the game of chess. Table (furniture) and chess table are tables (furniture).

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Chessboard

A chessboard is a game board used to play chess.

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Coffee table

A coffee table is a low table designed to be placed in a sitting area for convenient support of beverages, remote controls, magazines, books (especially large, illustrated coffee table books), decorative objects, and other small items. Table (furniture) and coffee table are tables (furniture).

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Column

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.

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Couch

A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, chesterfield, or davenport, is a cushioned item of furniture for seating multiple people (although it is not uncommon for a single person to use a couch alone). Table (furniture) and couch are furniture.

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Dining room

A dining room is a room for consuming food.

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Drawer

A drawer is a box-shaped container inside a piece of furniture that can be pulled out horizontally to access its contents. Table (furniture) and drawer are furniture.

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Drawing board

A drawing board (also drawing table, drafting table or architect's table) is, in its antique form, a kind of multipurpose desk which can be used for any kind of drawing, writing or impromptu sketching on a large sheet of paper or for reading a large format book or other oversized document or for drafting precise technical illustrations (such as engineering drawings or architectural drawings). Table (furniture) and drawing board are furniture and tables (furniture).

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Drawing room

A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room.

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Drop-leaf table

A drop-leaf table is a table that has a fixed section in the center and a hinged section (leaf) on either side that can be folded down (dropped). Table (furniture) and drop-leaf table are tables (furniture).

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Folding table

A folding table is a type of folding furniture, a table with legs that fold up against the table top. Table (furniture) and folding table are tables (furniture).

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Forest Stewardship Council

The Forest Stewardship Council GmbH (FSC) is an international non-profit, multistakeholder organization established in 1993 that promotes responsible management of the world's forests via timber certification.

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Franz Mayer Museum

The Franz Mayer Museum (Museo Franz Mayer), in Mexico City opened in 1986 to house, display and maintain Latin America’s largest collection of decorative arts.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Furniture

Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks).

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Gateleg table

A gateleg table is a type of furniture first introduced in England in the 16th century. Table (furniture) and gateleg table are tables (furniture).

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Glasses

Glasses, also known as eyeglasses and spectacles, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically utilizing a bridge over the nose and hinged arms, known as temples or temple pieces, that rest over the ears.

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Great hall

A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages, and continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, although by then the family used the great chamber for eating and relaxing.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Guéridon

A guéridon is a small table supported by one or more columns, or sculptural human or mythological figures, often with a circular top. Table (furniture) and guéridon are furniture and tables (furniture).

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Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Kitchen

A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation in a dwelling or in a commercial establishment.

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Lanterloo

Lanterloo or loo is a 17th-century trick taking game of the trump family of which many varieties are recorded.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lectern

A lectern is a standing reading desk with a slanted top, on which documents or books are placed as support for reading aloud, as in a scripture reading, lecture, or sermon.

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Light fixture

A light fixture (US English), light fitting (UK English), or luminaire is an electrical lighting device containing one or more light sources, such as lamps, and all the accessory components required for its operation to provide illumination to the environment.

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Living room

In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room (Australian English), lounge (British English), sitting room (British English), or drawing room, is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment.

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Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.

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Masonite

Masonite board Back side of a masonite board Isorel, с. 1920 Quartrboard,http://trademarks.justia.com/712/68/quartrboard-71268992.html Quartrboard. First Use Anywhere Date: 1927-05-13 Masonite Corporation, c. 1930 Masonite (also called Quartboard and pressboard) is a type of hardboard (a kind of engineered wood) made of steam-cooked and pressure-molded wood fibers in a process patented by William H.

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Mechanism (engineering)

In engineering, a mechanism is a device that transforms input forces and movement into a desired set of output forces and movement.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Nest of tables

Nest of tables (also known as nested tables, nesting tables) is a set of few tables with progressively smaller heights and frames, so that they can be stacked when not in use. Table (furniture) and nest of tables are tables (furniture).

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Nightstand

A nightstand, alternatively night table, bedside table, daystand or bedside cabinet, is a small table or cabinet designed to stand beside a bed or elsewhere in a bedroom. Table (furniture) and nightstand are furniture and tables (furniture).

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Oval

An oval is a closed curve in a plane which resembles the outline of an egg.

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Parsons table

The Parsons table is a modernist square or rectangular table whose four legs are square in cross-section, flush with the edges of the top, and equal to it in thickness. Table (furniture) and Parsons table are tables (furniture).

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Pedestal

A pedestal or plinth is a support at the bottom of a statue, vase, column, or certain altars.

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Persians

The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.

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Picnic table

A picnic table (or picnic bench) is a table with benches (often attached), designed for working with and for outdoor dining. Table (furniture) and picnic table are tables (furniture).

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Pier table

A pier table is a table designed to be placed against a wall, either between two windows or between two columns. Table (furniture) and pier table are tables (furniture).

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

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Poker

Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules.

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Poker table

A poker table or card table is a table specifically designed for playing card games. Table (furniture) and poker table are tables (furniture).

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Rectangle

In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles.

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Refectory table

A refectory table is a highly elongated table used originally for dining in monasteries during Medieval times. Table (furniture) and refectory table are tables (furniture).

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Round table (furniture)

A round table is a table which has no "head" and no "sides", and therefore no one person sitting at it is given a privileged position and all are treated as equals. Table (furniture) and round table (furniture) are tables (furniture).

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Ruler

A ruler, sometimes called a rule, scale or a line gauge, is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a user estimates a length by reading from a series of markings called "rules" along an edge of the device.

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Semicircle

In mathematics (and more specifically geometry), a semicircle is a one-dimensional locus of points that forms half of a circle.

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Sewing

Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a sewing needle and thread.

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Sewing table

A sewing table or work table is a table or desk used for sewing. Table (furniture) and sewing table are furniture and tables (furniture).

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Shelf (storage)

A shelf (shelves) is a flat, horizontal plane used for items that are displayed or stored in a home, business, store, or elsewhere. Table (furniture) and shelf (storage) are furniture.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

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Sitting

Sitting is a basic action and resting position in which the body weight is supported primarily by the bony ischial tuberosities with the buttocks in contact with the ground or a horizontal surface such as a chair seat, instead of by the lower limbs as in standing, squatting or kneeling.

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Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.

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Square

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four sides of equal length and four equal angles (90-degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles).

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Table tennis

Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand.

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Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northern Myanmar.

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Technical drawing

Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed.

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Tip-top table

A Tip-top table is a folding table with the tabletop hinged so it can be placed into a vertical position when not used to save space. Table (furniture) and Tip-top table are tables (furniture).

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Train

A train (from Old French trahiner, from Latin trahere, "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight.

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Trapezophoron

A trapezophore, trapezophorum or trapezophoron is the leg or pedestal of a small side table, generally in marble, and carved with winged lions or griffins set back to back, each with a single leg, which formed the support of the pedestal on either side. Table (furniture) and trapezophoron are furniture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(furniture)

Also known as Dining table, Dining tables, Dinner table, End table, Kids' table, Pedestal table, Pembroke Table, Tea table, Tea table (furniture), Wooden Table.

, Living room, Marble, Masonite, Mechanism (engineering), Mesopotamia, Metal, Middle Ages, Nest of tables, Nightstand, Old English, Oval, Parsons table, Pedestal, Persians, Picnic table, Pier table, Plutarch, Poker, Poker table, Rectangle, Refectory table, Round table (furniture), Ruler, Semicircle, Sewing, Sewing table, Shelf (storage), Silver, Sitting, Slate, Square, Table tennis, Tea, Technical drawing, Tip-top table, Train, Trapezophoron, Trestle table, TV tray table, Wood, Workbench.

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