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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tabulate
verb
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▪ By Saturday night, the ballots are tabulated, the discussions complete.
▪ The league tabulated votes on 12 key environmental issues in the House and 14 in the Senate.
▪ The results, tabulated by computer, were predictable.
▪ The values tabulated here give us a measure of comparison for Kaimann's experimental results.
▪ There are many examples taken from the original literature and corresponding tabulated values.
▪ They promised results within four or five minutes of when they were tabulated by the state.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tabulate

Tabulate \Tab"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tabulating.] [L. tabula a table. See Tabular.]

  1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.

    A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures.
    --I. Taylor.

  2. To shape with a flat surface.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tabulate

"to put into form of a table, collect or arrange in columns," 1734, from Latin tabula (see table (n.)) + -ate (2). Earlier in the more literal Latin sense "lay a floor" (1650s). Related: Tabulated; tabulating.

Wiktionary
tabulate

vb. 1 Arrange in tabular form; arrange into a table. 2 To list#Verb.

WordNet
tabulate
  1. v. arrange in tabular form [syn: tabularize, tabularise]

  2. shape or cut with a flat surface

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Usage examples of "tabulate".

The AS ran the ship, while humans made small decisions based on the minute fraction of tabulated information it provided them through holographic panes and DNIs.

In tabulated form, The Shadow inscribed four names: Shelburne Thorne Towson Whilton These were the four most vitally concerned.

At present, Smedley was tabulating the articles from the case and would be quite pleased to have Cranston come over and help him, if only it would put an end to the unrequested teletype messages from his New York friend, Police Commissioner Weston.

The Army had begun to use machines for cryptology in 1936, when Hollerith tabulating machines facilitated the compiling of codes.

FBI and AEC are equipped with such computerlike memories that they could understand and evaluate the results of the spectrographic and NAA testing without tabulating or recording literally thousands of multi-digit figures.

When we see the formations tabulated in written works, or when we follow them in nature, it is difficult to avoid believing that they are closely consecutive.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils and haricots--those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certificated aridities calling themselves human food!

Guided by theoretical considerations, I thought that some interesting results might be obtained in regard to the nature and relations of the species which vary most, by tabulating all the varieties in several well-worked floras.

They are not in ignorance, for the highest authorities know perfectly well that every year many hundreds of helpless and hopeless degenerates or defectives are committed to prison and tabulated as habitual criminals.

In addition, I mentioned factors disqualifying big mammalian candidates for domestication, but I did not tabulate how many candidates are disqualified by each factor on each continent.

KING: We don't know that it did, because the gross receipts from around the country aren't all in and tabulated yet.

It was equipped with 26 radio receivers, apparatus for intercepting both high and low-speed transmissions, a directionfinder, and tabulating machinery.

As it was, she fell often beneath his reptilian eye, her dreamy insufficiencies and languishments tabulated and filed away for future reference.

She was content just to admire the genuine panorama, ignoring the various graphic displays that oscillated and scrolled across the consoles as they tabulated the results of the sensor sweeps.

Among the world's thousands of wild grass species, Blumler tabulated the 56 with the largest seeds, the cream of nature's crop: the grass species with seeds at least 10 times heavier than the median grass species (see Table 8.