desk
(noun) a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments
Source: WordNet® 3.1
desk (plural desks)
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 of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news.
• furniture
• chair
desk (third-person singular simple present desks, present participle desking, simple past and past participle desked)
(transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
(transitive) To equip with a desk or desks.
• KEDs, deks, keds, sked
Source: Wiktionary
Desk, n. Etym: [OE. deske, the same word as dish, disk. See Dish, and cf. Disk.]
1. 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. 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."
Desk, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desked; p. pr. & vb. n. Desking.]
Definition: To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
