desk
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
“She organized her notes neatly on her desk before starting the project.”
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.
A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
“the city desk, the sports desk”
A station for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations.
“The first four desks of cellos play separate parts, making a lush, Impressionist harmony.”
Verb 3 meanings
To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
To equip with a desk or desks.
To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.
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".
DESK at a glance
DESK has 4 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (D 2 + E 1 + S 1 + K 5) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,355 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with desk
All rhymes- HELPDESK18
- NEWSDESK16
- COPYDESK20
- ARABESK13
- BURLESK13
- HUMORESK17
- YESK11
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