DESK

desk

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

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.

Hypernyms

• furniture

Coordinate terms

• chair

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• KEDs, deks, keds, sked

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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