desk

Meaning

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

desk

table

bureau

writing desk

writing table

bench

lectern

stand

writing-desk

office

school desk

desktop

counter

department

board

reading-desk

reading-stand

seat

cabinet

law office

high

table use

office desk

agency

branch

desk-bound

seated

sedentary

sitting

writing-table

escritoire

secretary

settee

settle

davenport

bed

frame

stage

support

unit

work table

worktable

place

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɛsk/

Etymology

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".

Sentences

He's in the desk .