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.

• 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.

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
• the options desk, the equities desk

Ellipsis of mixing desk.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

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

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

To equip with a desk or desks.transitive

• The teaching accommodation is to be as follows ;— Senior Mixed Department—Five rooms of equal area, four of which are each to be desked for forty scholars and one to be desked for thirty-two scholars
• Each row of desked benches was stepped up a step from the other until the top row of desked benches seemed to hit its high ceiling.

To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.transitive