noun. A piece of furniture typically having a flat or sloping top for writing and often drawers or compartments.

noun. A table, counter, or booth at which specified services or functions are performed.

noun. A department of a large organization in charge of a specified operation.

noun. A lectern.

noun. A music stand in an orchestra.

noun. A table specially adapted for convenience in writing or reading, frequently made with a sloping top, which may lift on hinges to give access to an interior compartment, as in the ordinary form of school-desk, or combined with drawers, and sometimes with book-shelves; also, a frame or case with a sloping top, intended to rest on a table, and to hold a book or paper conveniently for reading or writing.

To shut, up in or as if in a desk; treasure up.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.”

transitive verb. To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

verb. To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

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

"We may refer to all sets adapted to be mounted on a wall or partition as _wall telephones_, and to all in which the receiver, transmitter, and hook are provided with a standard of their own to enable them to rest on any flat surface, such as a desk or table, as _desk telephones_."

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