What's the difference between deck and desk?

Deck


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover; to overspread.
  • (v. t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
  • (v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
  • (v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
  • (v.) The roof of a passenger car.
  • (v.) A pack or set of playing cards.
  • (v.) A heap or store.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
  • (2) She said: "I was out on the deck enjoying the fresh air when I saw a winter jacket in the water.
  • (3) Over on the smaller boat, Mbalo remembers one of the two crew members then descending to the lower decks.
  • (4) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
  • (5) In Streatham, south London, for example, one user is offering her garden for £20 a night – and there are even deck chairs provided.
  • (6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
  • (7) Altogether 23% of deck officers serving throughout the study and 43% of engine-room ratings had one or more absences.
  • (8) Open daily noon-1am The Hudson Bar Facebook Twitter Pinterest Idiosyncratically decked out in antique bric-a-brac, this busy, multistorey cafe-bar and music venue has one of Belfast’s most comprehensive craft beer ranges.
  • (9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
  • (10) Christina was killed in a random attack on the top deck of a bus in Birmingham as she travelled to school.
  • (11) If ergonomic adaptation of the flight deck is impossible, anthropometric limits for pilot selection have to be employed.
  • (12) Thus, with the qualifications that college students were tested instead of pilots and that they performed monocular laboratory tasks imstead of binocular flight-deck task, it is concluded that 24-h rhythms in accommodation responses need not be considered in setting visual standards for flight-deck task.
  • (13) Use of the various areas of the pens was determined during a 24-h observation and by a videotape recording of the double-decked pens during the daylight hours.
  • (14) They are stunned beside their tank, a few seconds out of the water, rather than hauled out of the sea by net to die on a trawler deck.
  • (15) "With those stakes, the response must be all hands on deck.
  • (16) Decked in red shirts, the handful of supporters – mostly relatives – have tried to keep up the pressure with daily protests.
  • (17) Or it takes her much longer to shuffle the deck of cards than you thought."
  • (18) They pushed us aside and ordered us to lie flat out on the deck.
  • (19) The triple-decked and sequentially produced components of the mammillary system may arise from separate neuroepithelial sites.
  • (20) Its giant playing area for handball and volleyball is now decked out with campbeds.

Desk


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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."
  • (v. t.) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (2) One chief constable policing a rural area said he would have a copy of the winning candidate's manifesto on his desk when he met the new PCC on their first day of work.
  • (3) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  • (4) His latest thinking includes introducing concierge desks to welcome shoppers and tapas bars in its wine departments.
  • (5) He said there were a sufficient number of shifts at Heathrow to maintain "a full immigration desk policy" and insisted the contingency planning for security at the Games, which had seen more than 18,000 military personnel called in, meant the government had enough troops in place or in reserve to make up for the G4S staffing fiasco.
  • (6) In spite of resistance from Republicans and some Democrats, Obama expressed confidence that the legislation would be on his desk by the middle of next month.
  • (7) Just one problem (apart from the old roof falling off): it's 60 miles from my desk.
  • (8) The BMC approximated the standing lumbar curve in seated subjects writing at a desk to a greater degree than the SCC.
  • (9) A case is presented on the use of extracorporeal lithotrity by shock waves to treat vesical lithiasis, using the desk module of a Lithostar-PlusR (Siemens) lithotripter.
  • (10) The introduction of a desk computer improved morale, speeded up the work, and reduced both fatigue and mistakes.
  • (11) Vine's short-notice inspection report on border security checks at Heathrow's terminals 3 and 4, published on Thursday ,says that many of those who are being drafted in are ex-UK Border Agency employees who are being rehired, or staff who have been working elsewhere in the Home Office but have only been given basic training to work on the airport passport desks.
  • (12) The most widely used source of drug information for doctors is the industry-sponsored Physicians' Desk Reference, which overrates the therapeutic value of Valium and Librium as compared to disinterested medical sources.
  • (13) Stations Global must sell East Midlands: Smooth or Capital Cardiff and South Wales: Real or Capital North Wales: Real or Heart Greater Manchester and the north-west: Capital or Real XS with either Real or Smooth North-east: Real or Smooth or Capital South and West Yorkshire: Real or Capital Central Scotland: Real or Capital • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email media@theguardian.com or phone 020 3353 3857.
  • (14) In another, Underwood and his aide are monitoring police communications from his office – and laid out on their desk are no fewer than nine iPhones and iPads.
  • (15) Letters were sent to the 224 manufacturers listed in the 1984 Physicians' Desk Reference requesting a list of all products containing sulfiting agents.
  • (16) In early years Bloomberg reporters would assist on the help desk and even go on client pitches.
  • (17) Finally, statistical methods and a small desk-top computer were employed to compute linear regression equations, correlation coefficients, and t tests from the week's data.
  • (18) Or you can do it at the desk with your smartphone if you can remember the website address, don’t mind the data roaming charges, can remember your national insurance number and are impervious to the long queue developing behind you”.
  • (19) I remember the way I slid sideways through rows of desks, my arms crossed over my chest.
  • (20) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.