What does desk mean?

Definitions for desk
dɛskdesk

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. desknoun

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

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  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.

Wikipedia

  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 Dictionary

  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.]

Wikidata

  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 Dictionary

  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 Contribution

  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. 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

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  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. President Biden:

    I'm asking every House member, member of the House of Representatives to vote yes on both these bills right now, send the infrastructure bill to my desk, send the Build Back Better bill to the Senate.

  2. Health Minister Agnes Buzyn:

    It's when they're close, because they're friends or because they shared a desk.

  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. Ryan Salame:

    This is just the next step how you stay more competitive. Each desk is trying to be more competitive and making better systems, it's just a by-product of spreads coming in so much that I can't update in the chat fast enough to give people the pricing they're expecting.

  5. Tanner Miller:

    It's been currently sitting at [sic] the governor's desk waiting for a response for it to be signed, hopefully a follow through on his promise, the same promise that he made that he would welcome me back down, and I'd be able to create another memory for my son.

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