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English

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Atypewriter on a desk

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishdeske,desque, fromMedieval Latindesca, modified fromOld Italiandesco, fromLatindiscus.Doublet ofdais,disc,discus,dish,disk, anddiskos. See alsoGermanTisch, "table".

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Noun

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desk (pluraldesks)

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  1. Atable,frame, orcase, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use ofwriters andreaders. It often has adrawer orrepository underneath.
    She organized her notes neatly on herdesk before starting the project.
    Thedesk was cluttered with papers and books, making it hard to concentrate.
    He sat at hisdesk for hours, trying to finish the report.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers'desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
  2. A reading table orlectern to support the book from which theliturgicalservice is read, differing from thepulpit from which thesermon ispreached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
  3. Adepartment tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
    the citydesk, the sportsdesk
    the optionsdesk, the equitiesdesk
  4. Ellipsis ofmixing desk.
    • 2009, Rick Snoman,Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques, page69:
      Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into thedesk.
  5. Astation for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations.
    The first fourdesks of cellos play separate parts, making a lush, Impressionist harmony.
    • 2003, Sheila M. Nelson,The Violin and Viola: History, Structure, Techniques‎[1], page158:
      […]at best a competent viola player occupies a firstdesk, so that he may play the occasional solos for that instrument; but I have even seen this function performed by the leaderof the first violins.
    • 2006, Gabriel Banat,The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow‎[2], page270:
      Firstdesk: Lalance, chevalier de, composer; Meslay, Masson de, President of the exchequer, amateur; Blasius, Pierre, the elder, professor of music; Seconddesk:[…]
    • 2014, Reuben Hersh,Peter Lax, Mathematician‎[3], page46:
      Lori performed for years with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski as a first-desk violinist. (She says that Stokowski was not a Russian but an Englishman named Stokes. His Russian accent varied a lot.)

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Translations

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table for writing and reading
lectern—seelectern
team in a news outlet specialized on a topic
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Verb

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desk (third-person singular simple presentdesks,present participledesking,simple past and past participledesked)

  1. (transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; totreasure.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
  2. (transitive) Toequip with a desk or desks.
    • 1775, Henry VII (King of England),The will of king Henry vii[ed. by T. Astle.]., page 6:
      But also that the said Chapell bedesked, and the windowes of our said Chapell be glased, with Stores, Ymagies, Armes, Bagies ami Cognossaunts, as is by us redily divised, and in picture delivered to the Priour of Saunt Bartilmews besid Smythfel, maistre of the works of our said Chapell;
    • 1914,The Builder - Volume 106, page528:
      The teaching accommodation is to be as follows ;— Senior Mixed Department—Five rooms of equal area, four of which are each to bedesked for forty scholars and one to bedesked for thirty-two scholars
    • 2001, Bonnie M Gulan,A Collection of Nodding Off Stories, page64:
      Each row ofdesked benches was stepped up a step from the other until the top row ofdesked benches seemed to hit its high ceiling.
  3. (transitive, journalism) Toreject (anarticle submitted to anewspaper oracademicjournal etc.) on initialreceipt, withoutreviewing it further.

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Adjective

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desk

  1. alternative form ofdosk
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