desk

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English [edit]

A typewriter on a desk

Etymology [edit]

From Medieval Latin desca, from Latin discus.

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desk (plural desks)

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  1. 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. 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.

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Verb [edit]

desk (third-person singular simple present desks, present participle desking, simple past and past participle desked)

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

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