desk
/dɛsk/ sustantivo A1En español: escritorio, pupitre, carpeta, mesabanco
- 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
- 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.
Plural desks
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“It _is_ the same thing with you,” said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn’t much.
With a snappy “Good-morning, Pitcher,” Maxwell dashed at his desk as though he were intending to leap over it, and then plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him.
Instead of going straight into the adjoining room, where her desk was, she lingered, slightly irresolute, in the outer office.
Once she moved over by Maxwell’s desk, near enough for him to be aware of her presence.
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