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📊 To make a table 🪨 To make flat surfaces
to tabulate

to tabulate

1 7.4
Make a thing have one or more flat sides
  • verb
  • /ˈtæbjʊˌleɪt/
  • Specialized
: aplanar
  • In order to build the new cabinet, he needed to tabulate the edges of the wood precisely for a smooth finish.

Examples

  • The carpenter had to tabulate the wooden planks to create a level surface for the table.

  • Before painting, she decided to tabulate the edges of the canvas to ensure clean lines.

  • I've got this, you know, the skull is not any of these things that we can tabulate up, he says.

Synonyms

to flatten
vsto tabulate
86 2.6

Make something flat and smooth by pressing it

uses cutting to create flat faces rather than merely pressing flat
to plane
vsto tabulate
2 7.5

To make a surface smooth by shaving thin layers of wood

shapes by cutting to produce one or more flat faces

How Flat

to plane
2 7.5
to tabulate
  • Specialized
1 7.4
to shape
64 2.0
to cut
∞ 1.0
to chip
86 2.3

Surface Forms

tabulate infinitive
tabulated past
tabulated past participle
tabulating present participle
tabulates third person singular

Morphology

tabulate = table (semi-transparent) = tabul + ate

Formally derived from 'table' + '-ate', but the meaning 'to make flat surfaces' is a specialized/technical sense that may not be obvious to general learners.

Etymology

Tabulate also comes from the Latin tabula, meaning 'table' or 'board'. Because a 'table' is flat, the word can mean 'to make flat surfaces', so when people say rocks are tabulated they mean the rocks have flat, board-like sides.