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what is a table vs what a table is

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'What is a table' is a question asking for the definition or explanation of a table, while 'What a table is' is a statement that introduces or describes a table.

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what is a table

This phrase is correct and commonly used when asking for the definition or explanation of a table.

This phrase is used when you want to ask for the meaning or description of a table.

Examples:

What is a table made of?
Can you explain what a table is?
I don't understand, can you tell me what a table is?

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Come over here, because what we have here is a table laid for two, OK?
Although we are not all around a table.
Somebody in there mentioned that you had a table tennis table.
(To answer this question you may use a table as Table 6 below.
The members of the cartel agreed on a table fixing each others' market share and regularly updated this market sharing table in meetings.
This is achieved by introducing a table with variables cross-classified by industry and by sector (see table 9.11).
And a table is a table.
Thought you might make a table or something.
It's only 200 kuai a table.
We'll take a table for two, then.
With some beds and a table.
You only love me when there's a table between us.
I put it on a table and there were Vulcans nearby...
You were dancing on a table and fell off.
I booked a table at The Coral.
Friday we'd have a table reading of the next week's script.
I usually have a little stool and a table.
So, I put us a table somewhere.
There is a table, right here.
Scissors or a table knife make my heart ache.

Alternatives:

Can you explain the concept of a table?
What does the term 'table' mean?
Define a table for me.

what a table is

This phrase is correct and commonly used when introducing or describing a table.

This phrase is used when you want to introduce or describe a table in a statement.

Examples:

Let me show you what a table is.
I will explain what a table is used for.
She knows exactly what a table is.

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Will the Commission explain what a correlation table is?
It's like I don't even know what a wedding table is anymore, you know?
And a table is a table.
And all losers don't think a table is straight.
A bookcase near a table is very good... qi.
A table is included showing inflation outcomes for each Member State over the period 1997-2002 (harmonised indices of consumer prices (HICP) definition).
A table is provided in Annex C for the purposes of correlating citations of and references to the Articles of that Regulation with those of this Regulation.
I know a table is where a family lets go from the weariness of the day.
This table is generated automatically on the basis of tables on categories of intervention under each priority axis.
Flipping table is the worse behavior.
Without Lancelot this Table is nothing.
That table is reserved for someone else.
Although we are not all around a table.
This table is intended to specify data to be collected under Table 1(E) of the multiannual Union programme.
So if you're French or Spanish, to you, a table is kind of a girl, as opposed to if you are an English speaker.
Somebody in there mentioned that you had a table tennis table.
(To answer this question you may use a table as Table 6 below.
The members of the cartel agreed on a table fixing each others' market share and regularly updated this market sharing table in meetings.
This is achieved by introducing a table with variables cross-classified by industry and by sector (see table 9.11).
In the ESA, the product-by-product input-output table is the most important symmetric input-output table and this table is described here.

Alternatives:

Let me describe a table to you.
I will show you the concept of a table.
She understands the function of a table.

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