(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.
Dusk
Definition:
(a.) Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
(n.) Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
(n.) A darkish color.
(v. t.) To make dusk.
(v. i.) To grow dusk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(2) Mosquito infection occurred primarily around dusk, the same period during which A. robustus and E. serrulatus were most abundant near the surface of the pond.
(3) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
(4) The time-related incidence of these cells entities--the appearance of "dusk" and "bright" cells at 5 min, transitory domination of "bright" cells and the nadir of "dusk" cells at 20 min, sporadic recognition of "bright" cells, lack of "dusk" cells at 45 min and the absence of both cell forms at 180 min--displayed that LP-reactive response promptly appeared and rapidly ceased.
(5) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
(6) Ten minutes' walk away is the wonderful Blaise Hamlet (open dawn until dusk).
(7) I shall never forget a cherry tree in Kyoto lit with braziers at dusk.
(8) (Nine-year-olds were discovered picking spring onions from dawn till dusk in freezing weather in Worcestershire last year.)
(9) Sixty-nine patients reported no symptoms of night blindness and 116 patients claimed no visual field changes; 90 stated that they saw better at dusk.
(10) Her most memorable film role to date has been dancing with a python in a state of undress in the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
(11) "Hegel once said wisdom was like an owl, and that it took flight only at dusk.
(12) The final picture shows Blackpool Tower at dusk with the seafront illuminations.
(13) Mighty Deer Stalker Tough 10km off-road (and very muddy) run in Peeblesshire, Scotland, which starts at dusk.
(14) As dusk fell across the city a motorcade of flashing lights and sirens escorted him to the airport, where he thanked his hosts and organisers and the vice-president, Joe Biden, escorted him to the plane.
(15) In Fourier's ideal world, one might kick off with gardening in the morning, try some politics, shift on to art around lunchtime, spend the afternoon teaching and wind things up with a go at chemistry at dusk.
(16) The city, one of the largest Kurdish bastions of resistance to Isis in northern Syria, was shaken by heavy shelling from the advancing militants at dusk on Friday, sending plumes of smoke skywards and more refugees scrambling across the border into Turkey .
(17) A reason for the higher amplitude variation of melatonin in the natural lighting conditions may be the gradual changes of illuminance at dawn and dusk.
(18) At dusk on 10 September last year, a few weeks after the juvenile birds had successfully left their nest, the 9.5g tag on Sky’s leg abruptly stopped transmitting.
(19) His offices released statements about meetings with cabinet ministers to discuss issues such as the availability of basic food items during Ramadan when Muslims feast on food after a day of dawn-to-dusk fasting.
(20) "Fabrice always wanted it to be dusk," said Jenna Thiam, who plays 19-year-old Léna, one of the twin girls at the centre of the drama.