desk /dɛsk/noun 5verb 3forms 3phrases 1 noun5 •a table for writing, reading or working at, often in an office or a schoolShe 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 department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms. •Ellipsis of mixing desk.Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk. — 2009 •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. •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. verb3 •To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further. •To equip with a desk or desks.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 — 1914 •To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure. formsdesked · desking · desks Phrases with desk desk jockeyOne who spends their time seated at a desk; especially one who is more concerned with procedure, paperwork, or administration than with an ultimate goal or a practical consequence.
