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desk
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
desk
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desk calculator (=a big one for using on a desk)
▪ He had a big fancy desk calculator.
a desk/table/dresser etc drawer
▪ The passports are in my desk drawer.
a table/desk/bedside lamp
▪ He read by the light of the bedside lamp.
an advice centre/service/desk/bureau
▪ They offer a 24-hour advice service to customers.
cash desk
check-in desk
▪ the check-in desk
city desk
desk clerk
▪ Leave the keys with the desk clerk.
desk clerk
desk job
desk jockey
desk tidy
front desk
help desk
hot desk
writing desk
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
front
▪ The unit is controlled from the front desk and it is programmed to accept cards with the correct codes.
▪ They are used to keep track of what happens in the classrooms and at the front desk.
▪ I marched to the front desk and enquired the price of single room for one night.
▪ Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.
▪ As front desk personnel come and go, training and retraining is crucial for the daily success of any system.
▪ A large black man sat behind the front desk with his sleeves rolled up.
▪ After checking in and taking a shower, I tried to ring Merrit from the front desk.
▪ Soon the big fellow did the same, fixing his trousers even as he passed the front desk with wet face averted.
large
▪ Evans looked pleased with himself as he settled behind his large antique desk.
▪ A large desk was opposite her, cluttered with paper, a typewriter and pencils.
▪ She sat in a small, windowless cubicle behind a large desk with five telephones in front of her.
▪ At one end stood a large desk.
▪ He sat at a large desk covered with papers, journals, medical books, a portable typewriter pushed to one end.
▪ The large mahogany writing desk was immaculately tidy.
▪ He is sitting behind his large desk and does not gesture you to sit.
▪ To 1982 again, to the high-ceilinged room in east Beirut where Pierre Gemayel sits behind his large oak desk.
■ NOUN
cash
▪ In a restaurant that place was the cash desk.
▪ Loretta was paying for the tickets at the cash desk when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
▪ He had planned to hold up the cash desk of an Oxford Street store.
▪ I paid the woman at the cash desk and smiled at her.
▪ Computer tags carry a coded message which the computer at the cash desk can read.
clerk
▪ The desk clerk was a worried, grey-haired man with steel-rimmed glasses and a medal.
▪ Al Perry, Hotel Congress desk clerk.
▪ There was no desk clerk in the notebook.
▪ On the third night, she went up ahead while he uncorked a bottle and shared it with the desk clerk.
▪ The same desk clerk was on duty when Kragan left the hotel two hours later, at nine in the evening.
▪ It had to be the desk clerk.
▪ At the time, he said, Jackson was working as a desk clerk at the hotel.
drawer
▪ Or at a pinch he might be able to squeeze himself into the desk drawer and hide.
▪ He kept a gun in his desk drawer at the office and one night I took it out and shot him.
▪ He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random.
▪ Keep the paper in a desk drawer or folder.
▪ Taking his magnifying glass from a desk drawer, he fell upon the plans and scrutinized each one intently without speaking.
▪ Notebooks filled margin to margin with my tiny scrawl spill out-of the desk drawers.
▪ There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer, he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.
▪ Put a copy in your locked desk drawer and another in the secret compartment of your briefcase.
help
▪ Upon contacting the help desk, your call will be logged and you will be asked to provide information concerning the problem.
▪ By and large, Windows 95 fixes this problem, which is what your help desk is probably talking about.
▪ In any organisation the most active and critical area is the computer support help desk.
▪ A help desk provides immediate quotations and on the spot cover if required.
▪ CustomerQ integrates customer support, call tracking, help desk and product defect tracking in a single module that includes Informix.
▪ These include communication the corporate help desk, probably with the help of remote diagnostic probes.
job
▪ A police surgeon had advised him to find a desk job within the force, but none had been available.
▪ Men who make a living working with their hands tend to believe the myth more than men with desk jobs.
▪ And it's a desk job at a moderate salary in London terms.
▪ You could find them working in the crime laboratory, the radio room, in desk jobs in headquarters.
▪ Now that he was to become a father, Stewart hoped for an 055 desk job in Washington.
lamp
▪ An ideal gift for any student is an adjustable desk lamp, the more flexible the better.
▪ The desk lamp with an emerald-green shade and small prints of Degas' dancers were the only distinctive features of the room.
▪ There was a shaded desk lamp by the telephone, and that was it.
▪ From the desk lamp, glassy nuclei of brightness followed the words he wrote.
▪ The daylight did not penetrate far into the room where only his desk lamp was lit.
▪ In the bald white light of my desk lamp I took another look-and there were more eggs now than before.
▪ It is operated by the light from an ordinary desk lamp to provide an excellent level of illumination at its screen.
▪ I switched the desk lamp off, and sat in darkness.
news
▪ This can cause problems on the news desk and does not create a very good impression.
▪ But try telling that to the news desk.
▪ That evening, Scott took his place at the news desk and ran an eye over his script.
▪ Contacts: News editors and news desk reporters, picture editors, specialist editors and correspondents.
▪ I told the news desk they should send some one else, one of the junior reporters.
▪ When he was taken ill, I ran the news desk.
reception
▪ Dragging her mind back to the matter in hand, and mumbling apologies, she wormed her way to the reception desk.
▪ A recent high-school graduate sat at the reception desk.
▪ The two women behind the reception desk avoided her eye.
▪ I worked reception desk and switchboard.
▪ And with this in mind she returned to the reception desk to ask Stella if she could use the phone.
▪ As I walked through the door one of the two book-end bouncers began to saunter over to the reception desk.
▪ The foyer, too, was empty as she walked across it, nodding to the girl behind the reception desk.
▪ I wasn't sure if that girl at the reception desk understood my message when I asked you to phone me.
top
▪ Three feet of desk top separated them.
▪ The desk top had a brown wood-grain Formica finish.
▪ She was struggling to reach the bell under her desk top.
▪ It always banged on the desk top, each morning, before he remembered to tuck it below his tie.
▪ As he waited for it to be answered he drummed lightly on the desk top.
▪ For example, the underlying metaphor for the working space on the screen, is a desk top.
▪ They are quiet and clean, fit on a desk top and will soon match the quality of print produced by typesetting.
▪ Dalgliesh saw that his desk top was almost clear.
■ VERB
leave
▪ They have to clock out when leaving their desk and clock back in before returning.
▪ Our chairman, John Gutfreund, left his desk at the head of the trading floor and went for a walk.
▪ The tape she left on the desk.
▪ Every week we practice leaving our desks quickly, crossing our arms over our heads, lying still on the classroom floor.
▪ For one thing this would prevent people from leaving their desks to find a more private area where they can light up.
▪ A week into his job, he found a cartoon left anonymously on his desk.
▪ They left their writing desks and poured into the streets, led by Master Ferrebourg himself.
▪ By this means, scholars from other universities world-wide will have improved access to the library's collections without leaving their desks.
lie
▪ He opened his diary which was lying on his desk and checked by name against his written entry.
▪ He picked up the file that lay on the desk and flipped it open.
▪ A long envelope from personnel relations lay on my desk with my name typed on it in bold print.
▪ For four weeks I let it lie on my desk, unwilling to take the final step.
▪ His hands trembled, lying on the desk.
▪ Rust pointed to it lying on his desk.
move
▪ Emily moved to the desk and sat down, spreading the pages of figures out before her.
▪ Ralph drew back his window curtain, moved his desk so that the sun kept his tea warm.
▪ Kate saw his bulky form moving towards her desk.
▪ With mounting excitement which neither betrayed they moved over to the desk and peered intently at the blotter.
▪ By the time she came back Sylvia had moved her desk and found a new best friend.
▪ As he moved from his desk he slipped and spattered the page with blots.
▪ I have known a life transformed simply by moving a desk to a more advantageous position.
▪ She moved behind the desk towards him.
reach
▪ The passenger must pass through a security gate before reaching the check-in desk.
▪ Each piece of legislation therefore still faces pitfalls before either reaches the president's desk for signature.
▪ He reached into his desk and pulled out a current code manual.
▪ Under current law, the president is required to either sign or veto in its entirety any legislation that reaches his desk.
▪ Another batch of letters has reached my desk, some pleading, others offering help to my more unfortunate patients.
▪ He agreed to restore the money once a testing bill he supported reached his desk.
▪ He reached across his desk to a small black metal box and triggered a switch.
return
▪ He returned to his desk and checked the names of the fourteen banks.
▪ Solution Use the computer in company library then return to desk to check voice mail every hour or two.
▪ And with this in mind she returned to the reception desk to ask Stella if she could use the phone.
▪ It would be a pleasure to return to one's desk in Septuagint College and resume one's ordinary work.
▪ The woman had not yet returned to the desk.
▪ He returned to his desk and sat down.
▪ Southworth returned to his desk, taking the brandy with him.
seat
▪ She seated herself at the desk, relocated a floral display and smiled as the first patient walked into the room.
▪ Because I am seated at that very desk!
▪ In his mind's eye, Vologsky could see Major Tzann seated at his desk, holding it between trembling fingers.
▪ And they will be seated there at that desk.
▪ The General was seated at his desk.
▪ He was seated at a desk in front of an office with caged windows.
▪ Canon Wheeler was seated at his enormous desk in front of the ghastly picture of Marsyas.
▪ He shot Mark Kelley, seated at a nearby desk, three times in the face.
sit
▪ He sat at a large desk covered with papers, journals, medical books, a portable typewriter pushed to one end.
▪ Blue goes to his office every day and sits at his desk, waiting for something to happen.
▪ Bogle himself sits at the desk by the door and takes the money.
▪ So... you make a pot of coffee, boot up the computer, and sit at your desk.
▪ As he sat at his desk, flicking through pieces of paper, it suddenly struck him that Jakowski really was dead.
▪ Geoff wanted to sit at the head desk and be the man right off.
▪ Julia sat on the desk and swung her legs.
▪ Marsha sits at her office desk, casually dressed, as usual.
sitting
▪ This was Mr Ross's office and he was sitting behind a desk.
▪ He was sitting at his desk in the study when he happened to glance up and look out the window.
▪ Michele was sitting behind a leather-topped desk.
▪ You notice a coworker sitting at her desk flipping through some papers.
▪ He is sitting behind his large desk and does not gesture you to sit.
▪ A recent letter from the senate of a local liberal arts college is sitting on my desk.
▪ He was sitting behind the big desk in his office when the telephone rang.
▪ They feel comfortable sitting behind a desk.
stand
▪ By eleven o'clock I was standing in front of Patterson's desk laying down the law.
▪ We stand around his desk, cursing Carolyn.
▪ They were standing at the desk by now and the girl was working on the bill.
▪ Pretend that the reader is standing by your desk.
▪ The unit's underside is also well constructed, standing fast on a desk thanks to six strong non-slip feet.
▪ Finally, unable to stomach the task anymore, Kim stood up from his desk and walked out of the room.
▪ A few seconds later, William stands gloomily behind the desk.
▪ Horton, standing at the desk when Truitte walked in, greeted him warmly.
trade
▪ The government trading desk was a counterpoint to the visible gluttony and ethnicity of the mortgage department.
▪ The mortgage trading desk evolved from corner shop to supermarket.
▪ But on the municipal trading desk Samuels could not be touched.
▪ They arrived at the Salomon Brothers mortgage trading desk hat in hand.
▪ The good news was he had landed a plum job on the mortgage trading desk.
▪ Banks with international operations, securities trading desks and other non-lending businesses fared best.
▪ The mortgage trading desks on 4I were between the elevators and the corner in which I had chosen to hide.
walk
▪ Keith walks to his desk at the front of the room.
▪ We went inside and walked up to the desk.
▪ She walked to the desk and put down the vase and by the time she had done this Gabriel was gone.
▪ Then Bernstein was walking back to his desk with the first page of the story; soon he was typing.
▪ With a thoughtful look Goebbels walked back to his desk.
▪ She walks back to her desk, takes out a large yellow box of chocolates and passes them around the room.
▪ Stone stood up and walked slowly round the desk.
▪ Then he walked back to his desk in the room and turned to face me again.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
desk/car/sink tidy
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A nurse was seated at the reception desk.
▪ Lloyd is running the sports desk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Conway's secretary, Marie, was sitting at a desk.
▪ He pulled the crumpled bills from his shirt pocket and dropped them on the desk.
▪ His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down.
▪ If I had any class at all, I would get up from this desk and go buy bagels.
▪ Lucy Lane was sitting at the desk, turning the pages of a loose-leaf manuscript file.
▪ Or at a pinch he might be able to squeeze himself into the desk drawer and hide.
▪ The desk floated through the door into the hallway.
▪ The people placed on other desks were permitted to call themselves salesmen or traders.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Desk

Desk \Desk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desked; p. pr. & vb. n. Desking.] To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

Desk

Desk \Desk\, n. [OE. deske, the same word as dish, disk. See Dish, and cf. Disk.]

  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 (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for ``the clerical profession.''

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
desk

mid-14c., from Medieval Latin desca "table to write on" (mid-13c.), from Latin discus "quoit, platter, dish," from Greek diskos (see disk (n.)). The Medieval Latin is perhaps via Italian desco. Used figuratively of office or clerical work since 1797; desk job is first attested 1965.

Wiktionary
desk

n. A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath. vb. To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

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WordNet
desk

n. a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments

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Wikipedia
DESK

VV DESK is a football club from Kaatsheuvel in North Brabant, Netherlands. DESK plays in the Sunday Eerste Klasse (5th tier) in the 2013-14 season, after being eliminated from promotion play-offs the foregoing season.

DESK won the national KNVB Amateur Cup for Sunday clubs in 1980.

Desk (disambiguation)

A desk is a piece of furniture used for writing at etc.

Desk or DESK may also refer to:

Places in Iran
  • Dask, Hormozgan
  • Desk, Anbarabad, Kerman Province
  • Desk, Bam, Kerman Province
  • Desk-e Bala, Kerman Province
Other
  • DESK, a Netherlands football club
  • Deutsche Schule Kobe/European School, a German school in Kobe, Japan
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Usage examples of "desk".

And the problem is that I need to access my workstation and the server from home, and I left my Secure ID in my desk.

Terrace Watson was seated behind his desk in the inner office, surrounded by file cabinets, an addressograph machine, a postage meter, a voice typer, and a computer with memory storage.

It was not a large affair: a reception desk, a bull pen for admin and communications, a hallway that led back to the holding cells, and an office for the sheriff himself.

The old lady was still at her desk, and she nodded affably to Campion as he appeared.

He left the price of admission on the little desk to his left and as an afterthought, tossed in something for the lock.

Lieutenant Alameda, in submarine coveralls under a Naval Academy sweatshirt, sat at the desk near the beds.

How embarrassing would that be, he thought in panic, if Alameda had heard him moaning her name while he was in the lower rack mere inches from her fold-down desk while she pulled an allnighter on her engineering paperwork?

His sudden twist hoisted Alker across the desk, to the far side, where the man dived hard to the floor, throwing his left hand ahead of him.

Grand Dame Alpha was sitting at her desk in front of the fireplace when Michael knocked on the door and entered her room.

Judit Kendoro walked through the swinging doors of Surgery and presented her Amalgamated badge to the desk clerk.

She matched the antique ambience of the place almost to a T, the only anachronistic feature being the optical fiber running from the desk to her datajack.

My eyes were fixed upon the thermometer in the aneroid, which hung on the wall over his desk.

Sivaraksa made a quick, cursive annotation in the notebook he had opened on his desk, then slid it beneath the smoky gray cube of a paperweight.

Oliver, or someone on the arbitrage desk, had traded on inside information.

During that six-month period Oliver would perform special projects for McCarthy, and when the cooling-off period was over, the arbitrage desk could start up again, but it would have to act legitimately.