tabulate

[ verb tab-yuh-leyt; adjective tab-yuh-lit, -leyt ]

/ verb ˈtæb yəˌleɪt; adjective ˈtæb yə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

SEE SYNONYMS FOR tabulate

verb (used with object), tab·u·lat·ed, tab·u·lat·ing.

to put or arrange in a tabular, systematic, or condensed form; formulate tabularly.

verb (used without object), tab·u·lat·ed, tab·u·lat·ing.

to operate the tab key on a typewriter; to tab.

adjective

shaped like a table or tablet; tabular.

having transverse septae, as certain corals.

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Origin of tabulate

1590–1600; (adj.) <Late Latin tabulātus, past participle of tabulāre to fit with planks, floor; see table, -ate¹; (v.) <Latin tabul(a), for table + -ate¹

SYNONYMS FOR tabulate

1 order, rank, sort, group, classify.

SEE SYNONYMS FOR tabulate

OTHER WORDS FROM tabulate

tab·u·la·ble, adjectivetab·u·la·tion, nounnon·tab·u·lat·ed, adjectivepre·tab·u·late, verb (used with object), pre·tab·u·lat·ed, pre·tab·u·lat·ing.

pre·tab·u·la·tion, nounre·tab·u·late, verb (used with object), re·tab·u·lat·ed, re·tab·u·lat·ing.un·tab·u·la·ble, adjectiveun·tab·u·lat·ed, adjective

Words nearby tabulate

tabret, Tabriz, tabular, tabula rasa, tabularize, tabulate, tabulator, tabun, TAC, tacamahac, Tacan

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Example sentences from the Web for tabulate

Doctors have a vast platform to investigate, tabulate, and disseminate just how miserable they are.
Study Says Doctors More Burned Out Than Others, But It’s Not Really a Malady|Kent Sepkowitz|August 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Each salad was given a rank in each category, which were averaged to tabulate the final ranks.
40 Salads That Can Kill You|The Daily Beast|July 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST
My note-books were charged with facts ready to tabulate—facts, too, that interested me keenly.
Incredible Adventures|Algernon Blackwood
We will tabulate them, so they will leave their proper impression.
The Vice Bondage of a Great City or the Wickedest City in the World|Robert O. Harland

Preach and tabulate as you will, the English palate—which is the supreme judge—rejects this farinaceous makeshift.
Expository Writing|Mervin James Curl
The misprints in the Epigrammata are so numerous, that it is deemed expedient to tabulate them according to our numbering.
The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2)|Richard Crashaw
Let us tabulate the facts and the modes of accounting for them.
The Story of the Earth and Man|J. W. Dawson

British Dictionary definitions for tabulate

tabulate

verb (ˈtæbjʊˌleɪt) (tr)

Also: tabularize (ˈtæbjʊləˌraɪz) to set out, arrange, or write in tabular form

to form or cut with a flat surface

adjective (ˈtæbjʊlɪt, -ˌleɪt)

having a flat surface

(of certain corals) having transverse skeletal plates

Derived forms of tabulate

tabulable, adjectivetabulation, noun

Word Origin for tabulate

C18: from Latin tabula a board

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tabulate

verb (used with object), tab·u·lat·ed, tab·u·lat·ing.