Desk

Noun

 * 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.

Hypernyms

 * furniture

Coordinate terms

 * chair

Derived terms

 * desk job
 * reception desk

Verb

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

Adjectives for Desk
broad; secluded; ancient; battered; mahogany; flat; smooth; rickety; large; carved; Renaissance; polished; oak; dull; grimy; matutinal; reading; writing; spindle-legged; ransacked; roll-top.

Verbs for Desk
anchor to—; beat—; clutter up—; cover—; dust—; dawdle at—; erect—; flank—; litter —; lock—; pad—; plop at—; rummage in—; seal—; smite—; stack on—.

Thesaurus
agency, ambo, atelier, bar, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, board, buffet, butcher shop, company, concern, corporation, counter, escritoire, establishment, facility, firm, house, installation, institution, lectern, loft, organization, parlor, pulpit, reading desk, rostrum, secretaire, secretary, shop, stand, studio, sweatshop, table, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, writing table

Etymology
From desca, from  discus.

Noun

 * Arabic: مكتبية, منضدة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, писалище
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 书桌, 书桌,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: bureau, pupitre (school desk)
 * Georgian: საწერი მაგიდა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 机 (つくえ, tsukue)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: doşk, mase , mêze
 * Lojban:
 * Luhya:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bòrd-sgrìobhaidh ,
 * Serbian: pisaći sto
 * Spanish: escritorio, pupitre (school desk)
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: (school desk),  (otherwise)
 * Volapük: püpit


 * : scriptorio
 * : scriptorium

Anagrams

 * keds
 * sked