desk
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
desk/desk/
▶noun
- 1 a piece of furniture with a flat or sloped surface at which one can read, write, or do other work.
- 2 a counter in a hotel, bank, airport, etc.
- 3 a specified section of a news organization: the sports desk.
- 4 Music a position in an orchestra at which two players share a music stand.
– origin ME: from med. L. desca, prob. based on Provençal desca ‘basket’ or Ital. desco ‘table, butcher's block’, both based on L. discus (see discus).
'desk' also found in these Oxford entries:
anglepoise
- blotter
- bureau
- carrel
- cash desk
- city desk
- clerk
- davenport
- desk job
- desk jockey
- desktop
- drawer
- escritoire
- faldstool
- front desk
- inkwell
- in tray
- kneehole
- mixing desk
- out tray
- partners' desk
- pedestal
- prie-dieu
- roll-top desk
- secretaire
