Meaning of desk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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. lessenaar, skoolbank مَكْتَب писалище escrivaninha psací stůl der Schreibtisch skrivebord; arbejdsbord γραφείο, έδρα, θρανίοescritorio, pupitre, mostrador kirjutuslaud میز کار؛ میز تحریر pöytä bureau שוּלחָן כְּתִיבָה मेज pisaći stol, školska klupa íróasztal meja tulis skrifborð scrivania 机 책상 rašomasis stalas rakstāmgalds; (skolas) sols; pults; (kasiera, ...
   etc
6. A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms
7. A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
8. enscritorio;front ___ → mesa de admisión.
9. Ellipsis of mixing desk
10. Ellipsis of mixing desk.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
11. A piece of furniture typically having a flat top for writing, reading, or using a computer, and often drawers or compartments.
12. A station for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations
13. A station for a string player in an orchestra, consisting of a chair and a music stand, or a row of such stations.
14. A table, counter, or booth at which specified services or functions are performed: an information desk; a reception desk.
15. A department of a large organization in charge of a specified operation: a newspaper's city desk.
16. A lectern.
17. A music stand in an orchestra.
18. (Furniture) a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments
19. (Furniture) a service counter or table in a public building, such as a hotel: information desk.
20. (Furniture) a support, lectern, or book rest for the book from which services are read in a church

Equivalents

Examples

“She organized her notes neatly on her desk before starting the project.”

“The desk was cluttered with papers and books, making it hard to concentrate.”

“He sat at his desk for hours, trying to finish the report.”

“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.”

“the city desk, the sports desk”

“the options desk, the equities desk”

“Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk.”

“The first four desks of cellos play separate parts, making a lush, Impressionist harmony.”

“[…]at best a competent viola player occupies a first desk, 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.”

“First desk: Lalance, chevalier de, composer; Meslay, Masson de, President of the exchequer, amateur; Blasius, Pierre, the elder, professor of music; Second desk:[…]”

“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.)”

CEFR level