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desk

(dĕsk)

1. A piece of furniture typically having a flat top for writing, reading, or using a computer, and often drawers or compartments.

2. A table, counter, or booth at which specified services or functions are performed: an information desk; a reception desk.

3. A department of a large organization in charge of a specified operation: a newspaper's city desk.

4. A lectern.

5. A music stand in an orchestra.

[Middle English deske, from Medieval Latin desca, table, from Old Italian desco, from Latin discus, quoit; see disk.]

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desk

(dɛsk)

1. (Furniture) a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments

2. (Furniture) a service counter or table in a public building, such as a hotel: information desk.

3. (Furniture) a support, lectern, or book rest for the book from which services are read in a church

4. (Journalism & Publishing) the editorial section of a newspaper, etc, responsible for a particular subject: the news desk.

5. (Furniture)

a. a music stand shared by two orchestral players

b. these two players

6. (Furniture) (modifier)

a. made for use at a desk: a desk calendar.

b. done at a desk: a desk job.

[C14: from Medieval Latin desca table, from Latin discus disc, dish]

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desk

(dɛsk)

n.

1. an article of furniture having a broad, usu. level, writing surface, as well as drawers or compartments for papers, writing materials, etc.

2. a frame for supporting a book from which the service is read in a church.

3. the section of a large organization, as a newspaper, having responsibility for particular operations: the city desk.

4. a table or counter, as in a library or office, at which a specific job is performed or a service offered: the information desk.

5. a stand used to support sheet music.

6. (in an orchestra) a seat or position assigned by rank (usu. used in combination): a first-desk flutist.

adj.

7. of a size or form suitable for use on a desk: a desk dictionary.

8. done at or based on a desk, as in an office or schoolroom: a desk job.

[1350–1400; Middle English deske < Medieval Latin desca, descus desk, lectern.]

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Noun

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

davenport - a small decorative writing desk

drawer - a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out

escritoire, secretaire, writing table, secretary - a desk used for writing

table - a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs; "it was a sturdy table"

writing desk - a desk for writing (usually with a sloping top)

desk

noun table, bureau, work surface, lectern, writing desk, secretaire A large portrait hung behind his desk. see tables and desks

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Translations

مَكْتَب

psací stůl

skrivebordarbejdsbord

Schreibtisch Pult

γραφείο επιτραπέζιος

escritorio pupitre mostrador

työpöytäkirjoituspöytä

bureaubureau des dépêchescomptoir écritoire pupitre

שולחן

pisaći stol

íróasztal

skrifborðskrifborî

scrivania cassa

机

책상

darba vietapultsrakstāmgaldssols

bureau

kateter skrivebord

biurko

escrivaninha secretária

стол

okencepisalna miza

skrivbordskolbänk

dawati

โต๊ะ

masa sıra

bàn giấy

书桌办公桌

desk

[desk]

A. N

1. (in office, study etc) → escritorio m, mesa f de trabajo (Scol) → pupitre m; (= bureau) → escritorio m

2. (= section) [of ministry, newspaper] → sección f

3. (Brit) (in airport, hospital) → mostrador m; (in shop, restaurant, for payment) → caja f; (in hotel) → recepción f

B. CPD desk clerk N (US) → recepcionista mf
desk diary N → agenda f de escritorio
desk job N → trabajo m de oficina
desk lamp N → lámpara f de escritorio
desk pad N → bloc m de notas
desk study N → estudio m sobre el papel

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

desk

[ˈdɛsk] n

(in office) → bureau m

(for pupil) → pupitre m

(British) (in shop, restaurant) → caisse f

(in hotel, at airport) → réception f

(= department) news desk, sports deskdesk-bound [ˈdɛskbaʊnd] adj → sédentairedesk clerk n (US) → réceptionniste mfdesk diary n → agenda m de bureaudesk job n → travail m de bureaudesk lamp n → lampe f de bureaudesk pad n → bloc-notes m

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desk

n → Schreibtisch m; (for pupils, master) → Pult nt; (in shop, restaurant) → Kasse f; (in hotel) → Empfang m; (Press) → Ressort nt

desk

desk-bound

adj → an den Schreibtisch gebunden

desk clerk

n (US) → Empfangschef m, → Empfangsdame f

desk diary

n → Tischkalender m

desk editor

n → Lektor(in) m(f), → Manuskriptbearbeiter(in) m(f); (Press) → Ressortchef(in) m(f)

desk

desk job

n → Bürojob m

desk lamp

n → Schreibtischlampe f

desk pad

n → Schreibunterlage f

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desk

[dɛsk] n (in office) → scrivania (Scol) (in hotel, at airport) → banco (Brit) (in shop, restaurant) → cassa
desk diary → agenda da tavolo
desk job → lavoro d'ufficio
desk lamp → lampada da tavolo

desk

(desk) noun

a piece of furniture, often like a table, for sitting at while writing, reading etc. She kept the pile of letters in a drawer in her desk.

desk

→ مَكْتَب psací stůl skrivebord Schreibtisch γραφείο escritorio työpöytä bureau pisaći stol scrivania 机 책상 bureau skrivebord biurko escrivaninha, secretária стол skrivbord โต๊ะ sıra bàn giấy 办公桌

desk

n. enscritorio;

front ___ → mesa de admisión.

May I use your desk? → Mohu použít váš stůl? → Må jeg bruge Deres bord? → ¿Me permite usar su mesa? → Je peux utiliser votre bureau ? → Mogu li sjesti za vaš stol? → Posso usare la sua scrivania? → 책상 좀 쓸 수 있을까요? → Mag ik uw bureau gebruiken? → Kan jeg låne skrivebordet? → Eu posso usar sua mesa? → Kan jag använda ert skrivbord? → Masanızı kullanabilir miyim? → 我可以用您的办公桌吗？

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With a snappy "Good-morning, Pitcher," Maxwell dashed at his desk as though he were intending to leap over it, and then plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him.

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Next day Amy was rather late at school, but could not resist the temptation of displaying, with pardonable pride, a moist brown-paper parcel, before she consigned it to the inmost recesses of her desk. During the next few minutes the rumor that Amy March had got twenty- four delicious limes (she ate one on the way) and was going to treat circulated through her `set', and the attentions of her friends became quite overwhelming.

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As he sunk to the floor I wheeled around with my back toward the nearest desk, expecting to be overwhelmed by the vengeance of his fellows, but determined to give them as good a battle as the unequal odds would permit before I gave up my life.

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Here, finding myself well screened from public view, I broke open the desk with the help of the stone, and began to look over the contents.

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There were a couple of long old rickety desks, cut and notched, and inked, and damaged, in every possible way; two or three forms; a detached desk for Squeers; and another for his assistant.

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Every day he took a mysterious book out of his desk and absorbed himself in it at times when no classes were reciting.

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He searched amongst the papers on his desk and brought out at last a flimsy half-sheet of notepaper which he studied carefully.

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Stryver, leaning his arms confidentially on the desk: whereupon, although it was a large double one, there appeared to be not half desk enough for him: "I am going to make an offer of myself in marriage to your agreeable little friend, Miss Manette, Mr.

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The individual at the desk rose and departed, closing the door as he went out.

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One Sunday morning in the summer as he sat by his desk in the room with a large Bible opened be- fore him, and the sheets of his sermon scattered about, the minister was shocked to see, in the upper room of the house next door, a woman lying in her bed and smoking a cigarette while she read a book.

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Unopened letters and unsorted papers lay strewn about the desk. In the midst of these tokens of prostrated energy and dismissed hope, the master of the Counting-house stood idle in his usual place, with his arms crossed on the desk, and his head bowed down upon them.

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This difficulty overcome, he took his seat at the desk.

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