MEANING
To arrange information in a table with organized rows and columns.
Use it for
survey summaries; comparative tables; transparent countingMake the organization of evidence easy to inspect.
Words that belong together
- tabulate results
- tabulate frequencies
- tabulate responses by category
On the page
We tabulated attendance by school and month.
The appendix tabulates every source used to estimate the population.
Before interpreting the interviews, the team tabulated the frequency of recurring themes.
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Word forms
- Base
- tabulate / tabulates
- Past tense
- tabulated
- Past participle
- tabulated
- Present participle
- tabulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- tabulate / tabulates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are tabulating
- Present perfect
- have/has tabulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been tabulating
- Past
- tabulated
- Past continuous
- was/were tabulating
- Past perfect
- had tabulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been tabulating
- Future
- will tabulate / tabulates
- Future continuous
- will be tabulating
- Future perfect
- will have tabulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been tabulating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic. A presentation and counting operation; tabulating results does not itself interpret them. Often used for frequencies or comparable categories. Verb inflections [base, third-person singular, past, past participle, -ing]: tabulate, tabulates, tabulated, tabulated, tabulating. Derived family (not inflections): tabulation.
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