What's the difference between list and table?

List


Definition:

  • (n.) A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat.
  • (v. t.) To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.
  • (v. i.) To hearken; to attend; to listen.
  • (v. t.) To listen or hearken to.
  • (v. i.) To desire or choose; to please.
  • (v. i.) To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.
  • (n.) Inclination; desire.
  • (n.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.
  • (n.) A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet.
  • (n.) A limit or boundary; a border.
  • (n.) The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
  • (n.) A stripe.
  • (n.) A roll or catalogue, that is row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate.
  • (n.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.
  • (n.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
  • (n.) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.
  • (n.) The first thin coat of tin.
  • (n.) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
  • (v. t.) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border.
  • (v. t.) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
  • (v. t.) To enroll; to place or register in a list.
  • (v. t.) To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
  • (v. t.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.
  • (v. i.) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
  • (3) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (4) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
  • (5) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
  • (6) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
  • (7) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
  • (8) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
  • (9) The result shows that the great majority of children recorded considerably higher discrimination scores when the tests were performed with their individual hearing aids than with the test lists presented through the audiometer and the TDH-49 earphone.
  • (10) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (11) Both enzyme species released 3-methyladenine, 7-methylguanine, and 3-methylguanine, listed in the order of decreasing activity.
  • (12) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
  • (13) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
  • (14) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
  • (15) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (16) Subjects also rated the pleasantness of 29 foods listed on a questionnaire.
  • (17) The "Dream Toys" for Christmas list includes a few old favourites alongside some new, and sparkly, additions.
  • (18) Failure to meet these deadlines, and others listed in the judgement, face a daily fine of 150,000 reais.
  • (19) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
  • (20) At posttreatment, subjects in both active treatments reported significant improvement on self-report and interview measures of depression while subjects in the waiting list condition reported minimal change.

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).