A table is a type of furniture comprising an open, flat surface supported by a base or legs. It may be used to hold articles such as food or papers at a convenient or comfortable height when sitting, and is therefore often used in conjunction with chairs.
A table on which meals are served in a dining room
a table at which meals are served; "he helped her clear the dining table"; "a feast was spread upon the board"
(Dining Tables) The first dining tables of which survivors remain are the type known as refectory tables. They are made usually of oak, and one of the earliest, at Penshurst Place in Kent, has a typical thick top of joined planks supported on three separate trestles.
A fine-grained gray, green, or bluish metamorphic rock easily split into smooth, flat pieces
A flat piece of slate used for writing on, typically framed in wood, formerly used in schools
A flat piece of such rock used as roofing material
(formerly) a writing tablet made of slate
designate or schedule; "He slated his talk for 9 AM"; "She was slated to be his successor"
thin layers of rock used for roofing
Cover (something) with tiles
a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
cover with tiles; "tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom"
Arrange (two or more windows) on a computer screen so that they do not overlap
Slates drive me bats
Detail of slates on the roof of a boathouse, Glen Muick, Scotland. August 2006.
Slate
Couldn't pass up trying to capture the light play on a slate walkway.