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tableau

About 1.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture.
  2. noun A vivid graphic scene of a group of people or objects arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.
  3. noun An arrangement of actors in static positions on stage, having the effect of pointing up a particular moment in the drama, conventionally revealed by opening tableau curtains (known as "tabs").
  4. noun A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.
  5. noun A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking.
  6. noun Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.
  7. noun A semantic tableau.
  8. noun A unit of a play, an opera, or a ballet with change of stage setting.

Similar words

tableau vivant picture painting chalkboard blackboard schedule tabular template chart matrix

Often followed by

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Word family

tab tableaus tableaux

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