Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To arrange in tabular form; condense and list.
- transitive verb To cut or form with a plane surface.
- adjective Having a plane surface.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give a tabular or flat surface to; make or form as a table, or with tables.
- To put or form into a table or tables; collect or arrange in lines or eolumns; formulate tabularly: as, to
tabulate statistics or a list of names. - Shaped like a table; forming a tablature; tabular.
- Provided with tabulæ, as a coral: specifically applied to the Tabulata: as, a tubulate coral.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.
- transitive verb To shape with a flat surface.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Arrange in
tabular form; arrange into atable - verb To
list
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb arrange or enter in tabular form
- verb shape or cut with a flat surface
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lennart then explored using 'tabulate' directly in Haskell, but found it next to impossible to get the GHC simplifier to do enough transformation.
Planet Haskell 2010
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In Bluespec, Lennart needed to introduce a 'tabulate' function which produces a table-driven implementation of its function argument.
Planet Haskell 2010
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Not only have they taken the unprecedented action to deny extensions when unemployment is over seven percent, they've given the banks and those who tabulate the unemployed the precedent to codify those who've exhausted their unemployment as no longer unemployed.
Janet Ritz: The Non-Mandated Society: Why Obama's Mortgage Programs Fail Janet Ritz 2011
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One of my jobs was touring the squadron barracks every morning with a clipboard to tabulate the damage and vandalism done by drunken airmen.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Despite this, the authorities were able to tabulate the vote expeditiously.
Nikolas Kozloff: Part III: What Is the Brazilian Brand? Nikolas Kozloff 2010
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Not only have they taken the unprecedented action to deny extensions when unemployment is over seven percent, they've given the banks and those who tabulate the unemployed the precedent to codify those who've exhausted their unemployment as no longer unemployed.
Janet Ritz: The Non-Mandated Society: Why Obama's Mortgage Programs Fail Janet Ritz 2011
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Remember -- the Census Bureau doesn't just tabulate the nation's population every decade, it also compiles important economic, employment, educational and demographic statistics that are used for everything from determining the allocation of federal funding, where to build new roads and how to market new products.
The Census data dump begins Ed O 2010
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One of my jobs was touring the squadron barracks every morning with a clipboard to tabulate the damage and vandalism done by drunken airmen.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Still, when you tabulate the net effect of all of Richmond's additions and subtractions, the tally leaves you contentedly in the plus column.
Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII' Peter Marks 2010
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We asked Ms. Bocanegra to select an aspect of her piece to tabulate, a request she accommodated by calculating which words appear most frequently in her tale.
The Divine Power of a Solitary Voice Lizzie Simon 2011
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