desk
noun/desk/
Слово англійською: desk
Переклад desk українською: робо́чий стіл, па́рта, письмо́вий стіл
Детальний опис
- a piece of furniture like a table, often with drawers (= parts like boxes in it with handles on the front for pulling them open), that you sit at to read, write, work, etc.
- at a desk I spend all day sitting at a desk.
- behind a desk The mayor sat behind his desk.
- a desk drawer/lamp/calendar
- He abandoned a career at sea for a desk job.
- a place where you can get information or be served at an airport, a hotel, etc.
- at a desk There was a long queue at the check-in desk.
- behind a desk The woman behind the reception desk was always on the phone.
- on a desk We asked the man on the information desk for a map of the city.
- an office at a newspaper, television company, etc. that deals with a particular subject
- the sports desk
Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin desca, probably based on Provençal desca ‘basket’ or Italian desco ‘table, butcher's block’, both based on Latin discus from Greek diskos.