What is a table?
We rarely think about the meaning of words thatcalled ordinary and familiar to us things. And we know exactly what they mean. For example: "This is a chair, it's sitting on it, it's a table, you eat it!". And yet sometimes it is interesting to know even about what a table is. What is the origin and meaning of this word? Is it always used to refer to the subject behind which one is sitting and eating? We'll tell you about this.
In the most accessible and understandable interpretation for usthe table denotes a piece of furniture with a horizontal surface raised above the floor, intended for placing different objects on it. But even these tables can be kitchen, dining, writing, magazine and so on. The table can be the subject not only of household furniture, but special: an operating table, a pool table, an office table, a bar table, a chess table.
This word is also used to denote objects and phenomena that do not have a direct relationship to furniture. For example:
- a table, like food or food: a diet table, a table;
- table, as a branch in the establishment of the sphere of narrow services: address table, table of orders, a table of finds;
- table, denoting the process of reigning in Ancient Rus, the throne: the Kiev table;
- a table is a hill or a mountain with a flat top and steep slopes.
The desktop is also called the computer screen,an area designed to work with shortcuts to quick access to applications. More details about this you can read in the article What is the desktop. Perhaps you will be interested in another article about tables: How to decorate a table.
The very same word is of Slavic originfrom the word from "xtlati" - to steal, lay. And related words to him: bed, insole, litter. By the way, the word "chair" also comes from the Slavic "astlati".
