See Also: Tabular(medicine)
tabular(dictionary)
tabular(dictionary)

adze (oh) and tabular (iou)


adze (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: adesa]
a sharp tool with the blade at a right angle to the handle, used to shape wood

tabular (iou)



tabular adjective. M17.
[Latin tabularis, from tabula TABLE noun: see -AR1.]
Having the form of a table, tablet, or slab; broad and flat; consisting of, or tending to split into, pieces of this form; spec. (of a crystal etc.) of a short prismatic form with a broad flat base and top. M17.
tabular iceberg, tabular berg a flat-topped iceberg which has broken away from an ice-shelf. tabular spar the mineral wollastonite.
H. R. Schoolcraft At the head of the grave a tabular piece of cedar..is set. J. D. Dana Levynite occurs in crystals, usually tabular.
a. Of a number, quantity, etc.: entered in, or calculated by means of, a table or tables. E18.
b. Printing. Of matter to be printed: organized in the form of a table. L18.
c. Of the Nature of or pertaining to a table, scheme, or systematic display; set down or arranged systematically, as in lines and columns. E19.
J. Bentham A set of systematic and tabular diagrams.
tabularly adverb M19.