Definitions for DESK
dɛskdesk

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. desknoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. desknoun

   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. desknoun

   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. deskverb

   To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

4. Etymology: From desca, from discus.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Desknoun

   An inclining table for the use of writers or readers, made commonly with a box or repository under it.

   Etymology: disch, a table, Dutch.

   Tell her in the desk,
   That’s cover’d o’er with Turkish tapestry,
   There is a purse of ducats. William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errours.

   He is drawn leaning on a desk, with his bible before him. Izaak Walton, Angler.

   I have also been obliged to leave unfinished in my desk the heads of two essays. Alexander Pope.

   Not the desk with silver nails,
   Nor bureau of expence,
   Nor standish well japann’d, avails
   To writing of good sense. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. desk

   VV DESK is a football club from Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands. DESK plays in the Sunday Eerste Klasse (5th tier) in the 2013–14 season, after being eliminated from promotion play-offs the foregoing season.DESK won the national KNVB Amateur Cup for Sunday clubs in 1980.

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1. desk

   A desk is a piece of furniture with a flat or sloping surface used for writing, reading, or working, often outfitted with drawers or compartments for storage. It is commonly used in offices, schools, and homes.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Desknoun

   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. Desknoun

   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."

3. Deskverb

   to shut up, as in a desk; to treasure

4. Etymology: [OE. deske, the same word as dish, disk. See Dish, and cf. Disk.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Desk

   A desk is a generally wooded piece of furniture and a type of useful table often used in a school or office setting for various academic activities such as reading or writing on or using a computer. Desks often have one or more drawers, compartments, or pigeon holes to store office supplies and papers. Unlike a regular table, usually only one side of a desk is suitable to sit on. Not all desks have the form of a table. For instance, an armoire desk is a desk built within a large wardrobe-like cabinet, and a portable desk is light enough to be placed on a person's lap. Since many people lean on a desk while using it, a desk must be sturdy. Desk were first made from wood, but are slowly being converted into harder materials that last longer. A desk is also known as a bureau, counter, davenport, escritoire, lectern, reading stand, rolltop desk, school desk, workspace or writing desk. In Spanish a desk is called escritorio.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Desk

   desk, n. a sloping table for the use of writers or readers, often fitted with drawers, &c.: a shut-up writing-box: a pulpit or lectern.—n. Desk′-work, work done at a desk, professional labours of a clerk or author. [M. E. deske—L. discus. It is a variant of dish and disc.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. desk

   A type of furniture and product created and designed in various colors, materials, mechanisms, shapes, sizes and styles.

   The desk at the office was clean, neat and tidy.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 17, 2020  

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1. DESK

   What does DESK stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the DESK acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. • Table

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DESK' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2344

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DESK' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2139

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DESK' in Nouns Frequency: #942

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Anagrams for DESK »

1. sked

2. keds

How to pronounce DESK?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say DESK in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of DESK in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of DESK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of DESK in a Sentence

1. Nicole Sinder:

   What happened was work started seeping into my life time, it was a lot of working late and being stressed out. Just by looking at the desk I would think :' I have so many things to do tomorrow morning. I am already home. I might as well do them now...' Work really just became a full 24-hour thing.

2. Lorraine Loots:

   Selective attention to detail, at times, my studio is so chaotic that I need to clear a small space on my desk amidst the pile of papers, paints, plants and figurines just to be able to work, but I'd spend an hour erasing and rewriting a letter that's a fraction of a millimeter too low/high/big/small.

3. Alan Hedge:

   The problem with standing [at work] is that when you raise desk height for keyboard/mouse use, you need to also raise screen height about the desk or you get neck flexion, neck flexion.

4. Francisco Lopez-Jiminez:

   There are many ways to stand at work and to be active at work, and many of those things don’t require any special equipment, most buildings have stairs to use, long hallways to walk and people can be creative adapting their desk with simple ways to raise the monitor.

5. Corinne Rey:

   They fired at Wolinski, Cabu ., it lasted five minutes. I hid under a desk.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=DESK
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Desk
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=DESK
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/DESK
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=DESK
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=DESK
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=DESK