What's the difference between fable and table?

Fable


Definition:

  • (n.) A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
  • (n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
  • (n.) Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
  • (n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
  • (v. i.) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
  • (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (2) Young adolescents typically operate under a state of cognitive egocentricism or "personal fable" such that they perceive themselves invulnerable to many risks, such as pregnancy.
  • (3) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
  • (4) Development factors include pre- operational thinking, which prevents future planning and may require experience with sex to learn about it, and egocentricism, which implies an imaginary audience and the personal fable that "it will never happen to me."
  • (5) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
  • (6) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies First up is the debut teaser for The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies, the final instalment in Peter Jackson's epic three-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien 's whimsical fantasy fable.
  • (7) 7 Nightswimming REM's biggest album – 18m copies sold internationally and counting – was as southern a record as Murmur or Fables of the Reconstruction.
  • (8) My paper, in fable form, addresses some of the conditions in the United States and in Canada which reduce the ability of members of the community from making improvements in their health and changes to the health care system.
  • (9) Timbuktu, his most recent narrative of a dog's life by a canine narrator, aims for the simplicity of fable; some found it just simplistic.
  • (10) Examined is the clinical use of fables in the evaluation of child sexual abuse.
  • (11) And another on the Esalen Institute , the most fabled of these.
  • (12) The high-minded answer to that would offer an Enlightenment fable of dispassionate scientific curiosity.
  • (13) Mailbox What we say: Mailbox is one of the better ways to attain the fabled Inbox Zero – or at least try to – by swiping unwanted emails aside like they’re unwanted matches in Tinder.
  • (14) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
  • (15) Dr Mohamed Diagayeté is in an agitated state as he stands in front of stacks of green metal cases containing thousands of invaluable ancient manuscripts from the fabled medieval city of Timbuktu, northern Mali .
  • (16) Phil Johnson explains the continuing faith in these stories by reference to scripture: “The Bible says people like fables.
  • (17) When most of his colleagues fled Iran in the wake of the 1979 revolution, Kiarostami stayed put, shooting his acclaimed neo-realist fables about rural life and human mysteries, and picking up prizes from the world at large.
  • (18) The connection was his then-editor Jeremy Thomas (now a fabled producer) , whose uncle Gerald directed the whole series.
  • (19) The efficacy of the fable assessment technique is discussed, as are issues in the use of projective assessment with children.
  • (20) The Blairites, as ever, neurotically fear the fabled lurch to the left, and will not go quietly.

Table


Definition:

  • (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
  • (n.) A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet
  • (n.) a memorandum book.
  • (n.) Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced.
  • (n.) Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule.
  • (n.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.
  • (n.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
  • (n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc.
  • (n.) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.
  • (n.) An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.
  • (n.) Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.
  • (n.) The company assembled round a table.
  • (n.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium.
  • (n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table.
  • (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
  • (n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table.
  • (n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts.
  • (n.) A circular plate of crown glass.
  • (n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
  • (n.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane.
  • (n.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.
  • (v. t.) To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
  • (v. t.) To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
  • (v. t.) To supply with food; to feed.
  • (v. t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
  • (v. t.) To lay or place on a table, as money.
  • (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.
  • (v. t.) To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
  • (v. t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
  • (v. i.) To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (2) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
  • (3) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (4) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
  • (5) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
  • (6) One is that the issue of whether the World Cup should go ahead in Russia and Qatar still firmly remains on the table.
  • (7) But what about phenomena such as table tipping and Ouija boards?
  • (8) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
  • (9) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
  • (10) Table I shows the effect of increasing concentrations of propolis in tryptose-agar (TA).
  • (11) The first one is a region with iodine insufficiency; the second one is a region where the people use table salt in excess.
  • (12) These findings suggest that development of standard ECG tables in which SMR and sex have been taken into account might enhance interpretation during adolescence.
  • (13) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
  • (14) A table of the lengths of statistically significant intervals for various sampling interval lengths, numbers of subjects, and autocorrelation parameters is presented.
  • (15) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
  • (16) The results are summarized in Table I, indicating that the ratio of formation of the cis product (2) increases as a solvent becomes more polar.
  • (17) The properties of these tumour-associated "antigens" in the membrane of rat sarcomata are summarized below: [Table: see text]
  • (18) The inner table of the skull over the lesion was eroded.
  • (19) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
  • (20) The increase of the spleen weight after infection was significantly smaller in the immunized groups (Table 2).