desk
IPA: dˈɛsk
noun
- A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
- 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.
- A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
- A station for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations.
- Short for mixing desk. [Synonym of mixing console]
verb
- (transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
- (transitive) To equip with a desk or desks.
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Examples of "desk" in Sentences
- The bed is by the desk.
- The desk was neatly organized.
- There is sphericity on my desk.
- The desk should be built solid.
- The chair is in front of the desk.
- They enclosed the desks with cloth.
- The desk is eighty centimeters long.
- For the nightmare thing on the reference desk.
- Mathematics is the desk with the least crossover.
- That is disruptive to the very existence of the desks.
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