desk | Lernwerd

Forms

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.
- He sat at his desk for hours, trying to finish the report.
- She organized her notes neatly on her desk before starting the project.
- The desk was cluttered with papers and books, making it hard to concentrate.
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.
- The book that I bought is on the desk.
- The key is on the desk.
- Put the book on my desk.
3.A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
- The book that I bought is on the desk.
- The key is on the desk.
- Put the book on my desk.
4.Ellipsis of mixing desk.
- Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk.

1.To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.
2.To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
3.To equip with a desk or desks.
- Each row of desked benches was stepped up a step from the other until the top row of desked benches seemed to hit its high ceiling.

Common· #1949

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.