0 a small, low table on which coffee is served or books and magazines are arranged
1 a low table usually placed in front of a sofa (= long, soft seat) on which to set drinks, magazines, and other small objects
People put lamps, coffee tables, or plants in them so they feel like they’re driving in their living room.
He walked into the living room and sat across the coffee table from them.
She picked up the tin robot he'd given her from the coffee table and turned it over in her hands, staring up its skirts at the tuna-fish illustration and the Japanese ideograms.
There was a stack of guitar magazines on the battered coffee table, and a cozy sofa with an afghan folded neatly on one arm.
The direct object is the patient "the coffee table" in the first sentence, and there is no direct object in the second sentence.
The first tangible project produced by the foundation was a coffee table book titled, self-published in 1976.
Indi wakes up and loses her footing, causing her to fall through a glass coffee table and badly cutting her face.
Daltrey's wife was laughing so hard she knocked over the coffee table in the screening room.