Sentence examples for a tabletop on from inspiring English sources

No one is entirely sure why, but by the early 16th century that meaning had begun to disappear from the language, and a cupboard was no longer a tabletop on which to use or display one's crockery, but a covered recess in which to store it.

They then add a sheet of polymer perpendicularly across the two carbon pieces, like a tabletop on two short legs.

In 2005 an art historian at the University of Pennsylvania, Christine Poggi, inquired whether the sculpture, as MoMA had exhibited it, was missing a component, a round slice of cardboard that had originally formed a "tabletop" on which the guitar had rested.

Thus, interface designers can focus on the development of domain-specific interactions by mapping user's actions on a tabletop to a personal interface on his/her mobile device.

In contrast, the IBM researchers say their new fabrication tool sits on a tabletop at one-fifth to one-tenth the cost.

"It's very much like the experience one had as a child, playing with figures on a tabletop or on a rug," Kaiser says.

Their task was to rap their knuckles on a tabletop to the rhythm of the chosen tune as they thought about it in their heads.

Unlike an ordinary laptop that needs to be placed flat and upright on a tabletop or on a pair of knees, the ViewPad could be held in a variety of sitting and slumping positions.

You will need to have some way of soaking your hair in the coffee; a reclining chair and a shallow bowl resting on a tabletop is one possible method.

Stanford and Russian nuclear scholars work together in a tabletop exercise on preventing nuclear terrorism.

And nearly every work is animated by some lush bit of painting: a tabletop laid on in a single broad stroke, a background color that has a life of its own or some other passage of deft but declarative brushwork.