desk

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɛsk/    美 /dɛsk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  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.
  3. 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
  4. Ellipsis of mixing desk. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk.
  5. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure. transitive
  2. To equip with a desk or desks. transitive
    — But also that the said Chapell be desked, and the windowes of our said Chapell be glased, with Stores, Ymagies, Armes, Bagies ami Cognossaunts, as is by us redily divised, and in picture delivered to the Priour of Saunt Bartilmews besid Smythfel, maistre of the works of our said Chapell;
  3. To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further. transitive

词形变化

desks plural desks present,singular,third-person desking participle,present desked participle,past desked past

词汇关系

上位词
furniture
衍生词
al desko Carlton House desk cash desk cashier's desk checkout desk circulation desk city desk concierge desk copy desk deskband desk blotter deskbook deskbound desk caddy desk calendar desk chair desk check desk dictionary desk drawer desk drop deskercise desk fan deskfast deskful deskie desk job desk jockey desk killer desk lamp desklamp desklet desklike deskman deskmate desk murderer desk organiser desk organizer desk pad deskphone desk pilot desk potato desk rage desk rejection deskscape desk sergeant deskside deskspace desk tidy desktop deskward desk work deskwork deskworker double desk fly a desk front desk front-desk Governor Winthrop desk headdesk help-desk help desk hobby desk hot desk hot-desk infodesk information desk key desk kneehole desk lap desk litany desk mixing desk music desk news desk newsdesk partners desk picture desk reception desk Resolute desk rolltop desk roll-top desk secretary desk standing desk teacher's desk telephone desk Winthrop desk writing desk
并列词
chair

词源

词源 1
From Middle English deske, desque, from Medieval Latin desca, modified from Old Italian desco, from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. See also German Tisch, "table".
词源 2
From Middle English deske, desque, from Medieval Latin desca, modified from Old Italian desco, from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. See also German Tisch, "table".
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