tabletop
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈteɪbəlˌtɑp/
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- 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.
- This here is the tabletop of my die filer.
- Which is neat, but I literally shattered a glass tabletop once with my hot styling tool.
- It's like a table top, and that tabletop is supported by these pillars or legs under the table.
- If I wanted something that was floor length, I could use the tabletop as a guide to cut my hem, that sort of thing.
Examples
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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.
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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.
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Soon, the tabletop overflowed with food and the last of their sweet wine.
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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.
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The children spread their art supplies across the tabletop to begin their creative project.
Synonyms
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2.7
A flat surface on top of kitchen or bathroom cabinets for preparing food and holding things
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2.4
The flat top of a desk where you work or put things
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2.7
A flat surface like a table or countertop where you do work
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3.5
A flat surface in a kitchen, laboratory, or workshop where you do work
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Morphology
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.