Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A piece of furniture typically having a flat or sloping top for writing and often drawers or compartments.
- noun A table, counter, or booth at which specified services or functions are performed.
- noun A department of a large organization in charge of a specified operation.
- noun A lectern.
- noun A music stand in an orchestra.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To shut, up in or as if in a desk; treasure up.
- noun A table specially adapted for convenience in writing or reading, frequently made with a sloping top, which may lift on hinges to give access to an interior compartment, as in the ordinary form of school-desk, or combined with drawers, and sometimes with book-shelves; also, a frame or case with a sloping top, intended to rest on a table, and to hold a book or paper conveniently for reading or writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.”
- transitive verb To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun 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. - noun 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. - verb To shut up, as in a desk; to
treasure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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We may refer to all sets adapted to be mounted on a wall or partition as _wall telephones_, and to all in which the receiver, transmitter, and hook are provided with a standard of their own to enable them to rest on any flat surface, such as a desk or table, as _desk telephones_.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910
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*fawls offa desk chare* *Wabes floofy paw happeely from unnerneeth desk*
Nom Nom Nom Ding Ziiiip - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And the desk is a solid workspace which makes me feel 100x better.
And I was only short some screws. So close... tragic_elegance 2010
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The Bass speaker under the desk is an excellent foot rest.
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And the desk is a solid workspace which makes me feel 100x better.
And I was only short some screws. So close... tragic_elegance 2010
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Beneath the desk is my small collection of PULP and other really old manga published in pamphlet-comic format.
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One of them sits at the back of the class and pretends his desk is a machine gun (with accompanying noises) or a powerful car (with accompanying noises).
50 Anniversary 2009
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To answer a few questions, the keyboard area of the desk is a little higher then normal, so I can use the tablet easier.
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One of them sits at the back of the class and pretends his desk is a machine gun (with accompanying noises) or a powerful car (with accompanying noises).
Chapter News 2010
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"Joe doesn't have this big suite of offices, and his desk is the same size as everyone else's."
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Informally, legal institutions also shape choices through desk-clerk law, that is, advice given by the government functionaries who answer public inquiries at state and local agencies. These legal actors frequently mislead people and discourage unconventional naming choices as a result of ignorance or their own views about proper practice.
Changing Name Changing: Framing Rules and the Future of Marital Names See all articles by Elizabeth F. Emens 2023
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