desk

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. 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.
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 (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
3. A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
4. Short for mixing desk.
5. A station for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations.

Verb

1. To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
2. To equip with a desk or desks.
3. To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.

Concepts

bureau

pupitre

bureau des dépêches

table

comptoir

secrétaire

lutrin

établi

barre

caisse

département

scriban

écritoire

banc

escritoire

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɛsk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English deske, desque, from Medieval Latin desca, modified from Old Italian desco, from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. See also German Tisch, "table".

Phrases

He's in the desk .

Il est dans le bureau.