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tabletop

tabletop

26 2.1
The flat top of a table where you put things
  • noun
  • /ˈteɪbəlˌtɑp/
translation icon : tapa de la mesa
  • During the dinner party, the tabletop was adorned with candles and flowers for a festive atmosphere.
  • a flat tabletop
  • a small tabletop
  • tabletop photography

This here is the tabletop of my die filer.

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Examples

  • But now, the table itself has been switched and the new tabletop has a built-in video screen with a frame matching Picard's prop.

  • There were lace doilies on the tabletops and antimacassars on the backs of the armchairs.

    Academic text (1999)
  • There is a small shelf under the tabletop.

  • Soon, the tabletop overflowed with food and the last of their sweet wine.

  • The room here is dominated by a tabletop architectural model of a large-scale construction project.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Simon made him a marble tabletop, shelves for dishes, and a sink.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • The apparatus for the Rod-and-Frame Test is a tabletop-sized, rectangular box.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Oriental vases and pewter samovars lurked on every tabletop, threatening to break with each of his steps.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • The craftsman applied a protective finish to the wooden tabletop before displaying his work.

  • The children spread their art supplies across the tabletop to begin their creative project.

Synonyms

countertop
vstabletop
34 2.7

A flat surface on top of kitchen or bathroom cabinets for preparing food and holding things

is the flat upper surface of movable furniture used for placing items or work
desktop
vstabletop
10 2.4

The flat top of a desk where you work or put things

is the flat upper surface of general furniture for placing items or working
work surface
vstabletop
4 2.7

A flat surface like a table or countertop where you do work

is the flat upper surface of a single furniture piece rather than any work area
benchtop
vstabletop
1 3.5

A flat surface in a kitchen, laboratory, or workshop where you do work

is the flat upper surface used more for placing objects on general furniture

How Big

work surface
4 2.7
tabletop
26 2.1
tray
311 1.0

Surface Forms

tabletop singular
tabletops plural

Morphology

tabletop = table + top (transparent) = table + top

The meaning is directly deducible from 'table' + 'top' as the upper surface of a table.

Etymology

Tabletop is made of the simple parts table and top. Table once meant a 'flat board' and top means the 'highest part', so tabletop is the flat upper surface of a table where you put things or work.