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ON THE TABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise
Example:
the proposal is still on the table
Synonyms:
negotiable; on the table
Classified under:
Similar:
flexible (capable of being changed)
Context examples:
One of the doctor's medical books lay open on the table, half of the leaves gutted out, I suppose, for pipelights.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And sure enough there was a book on the table which had the air of being very recently closed: a volume of Shakespeare.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He looked rather doubtingly—rather confused; said something about honour,—glanced at Emma and at Harriet, and then seeing the book open on the table, took it up, and examined it very attentively.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His card was on the table when they came in from the morning's drive.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The fighting-men rose and took their hats off, except the fellow on the table, who continued to swing his legs and to look my uncle very coolly in the face.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But Lady Catherine seemed gratified by their excessive admiration, and gave most gracious smiles, especially when any dish on the table proved a novelty to them.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
When they were sat down, the farmer placed me at some distance from him on the table, which was thirty feet high from the floor.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I threw the letter on the table, and covered my face with my hands.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
His head dropped forward on the table and was buried in his hands.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I think the job on the table represents a very big advancement with a great deal of responsibility and power.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
