Definitions for DESK
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. desknoun

   a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. desknoun

   A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

2. desknoun

   A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.

3. deskverb

   To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

4. Etymology: From desca, from discus.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Desknoun

   An inclining table for the use of writers or readers, made commonly with a box or repository under it.

   Etymology: disch, a table, Dutch.

   Tell her in the desk,
   That’s cover’d o’er with Turkish tapestry,
   There is a purse of ducats. William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errours.

   He is drawn leaning on a desk, with his bible before him. Izaak Walton, Angler.

   I have also been obliged to leave unfinished in my desk the heads of two essays. Alexander Pope.

   Not the desk with silver nails,
   Nor bureau of expence,
   Nor standish well japann’d, avails
   To writing of good sense. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. desk

   VV DESK is a football club from Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands. DESK plays in the Sunday Eerste Klasse (5th tier) in the 2013–14 season, after being eliminated from promotion play-offs the foregoing season.DESK won the national KNVB Amateur Cup for Sunday clubs in 1980.

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1. desk

   A desk is a piece of furniture with a flat or sloping surface used for writing, reading, or working, often outfitted with drawers or compartments for storage. It is commonly used in offices, schools, and homes.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Desknoun

   a table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath

2. Desknoun

   a reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."

3. Deskverb

   to shut up, as in a desk; to treasure

4. Etymology: [OE. deske, the same word as dish, disk. See Dish, and cf. Disk.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Desk

   A desk is a generally wooded piece of furniture and a type of useful table often used in a school or office setting for various academic activities such as reading or writing on or using a computer. Desks often have one or more drawers, compartments, or pigeon holes to store office supplies and papers. Unlike a regular table, usually only one side of a desk is suitable to sit on. Not all desks have the form of a table. For instance, an armoire desk is a desk built within a large wardrobe-like cabinet, and a portable desk is light enough to be placed on a person's lap. Since many people lean on a desk while using it, a desk must be sturdy. Desk were first made from wood, but are slowly being converted into harder materials that last longer. A desk is also known as a bureau, counter, davenport, escritoire, lectern, reading stand, rolltop desk, school desk, workspace or writing desk. In Spanish a desk is called escritorio.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Desk

   desk, n. a sloping table for the use of writers or readers, often fitted with drawers, &c.: a shut-up writing-box: a pulpit or lectern.—n. Desk′-work, work done at a desk, professional labours of a clerk or author. [M. E. deske—L. discus. It is a variant of dish and disc.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. desk

   A type of furniture and product created and designed in various colors, materials, mechanisms, shapes, sizes and styles.

   The desk at the office was clean, neat and tidy.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 17, 2020  

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1. DESK

   What does DESK stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the DESK acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Table

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DESK' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2344

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DESK' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2139

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DESK' in Nouns Frequency: #942

Anagrams for DESK »

1. sked

2. keds

How to pronounce DESK?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say DESK in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of DESK in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of DESK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of DESK in a Sentence

1. Elizabeth Dodson:

   Most people have boxes in the closet filled with owners manuals, folders of paper in a desk about the mortgage and sales documents when you bought the home, a stack of product brochures for a home remodel you are planning for, a box of utility bills on the desk, and post-it notes and paper lists of all the things you need to fix or maintain the home, all of this paper scattered everywhere in the home means it takes you forever to find something, and it mentally wears on you about how unorganized you really are.

2. President Trump:

   I strongly supported the House of Representatives Pain-Capable bill, which would end painful, late-term abortions nationwide, i call upon the Senate to pass this important law and send it to my desk for signing.

3. Josh Brown:

   You have to assume that you are going to be the troubleshooting desk, clients did not hire you to give them an 800 number.

4. Susan Allen:

   You can't just set up a desk in your kids' playroom and take the deduction.

5. Director Erin Buckmaster:

   We really thought the chair was too big behind the desk but Buster Brown behind the desk's loved it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=DESK
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Desk
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=DESK
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/DESK
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=DESK
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=DESK