Image:Hermann Hesse Desk Museum Gaienhofen.jpeg|thumb|250px|A [[typewriter on a desk]]
English
Etymology
From ML. desca, from L. discus.
Pronunciation
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Noun
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- 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.
- 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.
Hypernyms
furniture
Coordinate terms
chair
Translations
trans-top|table for writing and reading
Chinese: (shūzhu�)
Finnish: työpöytä, kirjoituspöytä
French: bureau m, pupitre m (school desk)
German: Schreibtisch
Greek: ��α�είο n
Hebrew: ש���� (šulkhán) m
Icelandic: skrifborð n
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Japanese: � (���, tsukue)
Kurdish:
* Kurmanji: do�k m, mase f, mêze f
Polish: biurko n
Scottish Gaelic: bòrd-sgrìobhaidh m
Serbian: pisa�i sto m
Spanish: escritorio m, pupitre m (school desk)
Swahili: dawati
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trans-top|lectern
See: lectern
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Translations to be checked
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ttbc|Interlingua: scriptorio
ttbc|Latin: scriptorium
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Derived terms
reception desk
Transitive verb
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en-verb
- To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
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