drawing table

noun

: a table with a surface adjustable for elevation and angle of incline

Examples of drawing table in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The pressure campaign forced Johnson back to the drawing table. —Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 15 Jan. 2025

Political and technical hurdles may have largely sidelined thorium fuel and molten-salt-reactor research for the last five decades, but both are definitely back on the drawing table. —Emily Waltz, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2024

But those remarks were made before Friday's weak jobs report, which has sent economists back to the drawing table. —Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2024

Miyazaki has previously suggested that The Boy and the Heron will be his last feature — but the 82-year-old anime legend has publicly retired twice before, only to eventually return to his drawing table. —Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2024

The ruling meant thousands of businesses that ship commercial data to the U.S. had to figure out an alternative and EU-U.S. negotiators were forced back to the drawing table. —Stephanie Bodoni, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2022

Go back to the drawing table. —Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2022

Today in Ohio Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission said their staff has returned to the drawing table for one more attempt at a state legislative map that passes constitutional muster -- and staves off the Ohio Supreme Court’s threat to find them in contempt. —Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022

Chef/owner Daniel Del Prado has converted a former bakery behind his Martina into a takeout/dine-in hybrid, anchoring the stylish space with a white-tiled pizza oven that looks like it was plucked off architect Frank Gehry’s drawing table. —Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1706, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for drawing table

• damnable
• disable
• enable
• roundtable
• timetable
• turntable
• unable
• unstable
• able
• chaebol
• fable
• label