desk – English noun declension

English noun forms of desk

Noun: desk
Singulardesk
Pluraldesks

Sample Sentences

  • 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.
  • He sat at his desk for hours, trying to finish the report.
  • Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • the city desk, the sports desk
  • the options desk, the equities desk
  • Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk. [2009, Rick Snoman, Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques, page 69:]
  • The first four desks of cellos play separate parts, making a lush, Impressionist harmony.
  • […]at best a competent viola player occupies a first desk, so that he may play the occasional solos for that instrument; but I have even seen this function performed by the leaderof the first violins. [2003, Sheila M. Nelson, The Violin and Viola: History, Structure, Techniques, page 158:]
  • First desk: Lalance, chevalier de, composer; Meslay, Masson de, President of the exchequer, amateur; Blasius, Pierre, the elder, professor of music; Second desk:[…] [2006, Gabriel Banat, The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow, page 270:]
  • Lori performed for years with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski as a first-desk violinist. (She says that Stokowski was not a Russian but an Englishman named Stokes. His Russian accent varied a lot.) [2014, Reuben Hersh, Peter Lax, Mathematician, page 46:]

Etymology

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". See: Middle English Nouns 'deske', Latin Nouns 'discus', German Nouns 'Tisch'.

Verbs referencing "desk"

Swedish Nouns disk, Zulu Nouns idesiki.