(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.
Preach
Definition:
(v. i.) To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.
(v. i.) To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.
(v. t.) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
(v. t.) To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching.
(v. t.) To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.
(v. t.) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
(v. t.) To advise or recommend earnestly.
(v.) A religious discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of these grime artists, if they’re telling you to vote, young people are going to listen.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Preach!” Speakers on the Grime 4 Corbyn panel debate.
(2) US Banker magazine, which ranked her the fifth most powerful female banker in the US, has quoted her as admitting to preaching a work-life balance but admitting: "I don't have much of one myself."
(3) Chief executive Lloyd Blankfein has been touring the world in recent weeks, preaching the virtues of restraint, self-discipline and responsibility.
(4) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
(5) Governments, from the Sunni side the Saudi government, on the Shia side the Iranian government, have been putting fortunes of money into making sure that extremist mullahs are preaching in mosques around the world, and in building and developing schools in which a whole generation is being educated in extremism — and trying to prevent other forms of education.” • This article was amended on 13 January 2015 because an earlier version referred to “Oscar-winning filmmaker and author Sam Harris”.
(6) How could it happen in the world's largest democratic country and the land of Gandhi, who preached against all forms of violence?
(7) Hezza has given interviews to any passing newspaper today to preach his case, just as he did when he challenged Margaret Thatcher for the Tory leadership in November 1990.
(8) And those who preach or teach extremism, those who say we should not respect other Australians, those who seek to gnaw away at that social fabric, are not helping the Australian dream.
(9) HTB's services, the preaching, even the miracles, are all slick and informal and the atmosphere seems to most people genuinely friendly.
(10) Team Cameron will play the ball, not the man, and let voters decide for themselves | Toby Helm Read more Those who preached so often to their party about the necessity of winning general elections proved to be useless at winning a Labour one.
(11) He is right when he describes the poisonous narrative they preach and I welcome his comments that British Muslim communities have a powerful and important role to play in dealing with a situation that is becoming increasingly grave.
(12) Whereas the founding fathers of democratic South Africa preached non-racialism, Malema has caused uproar with his singing of the protest song Shoot the Boer‚ a reference to Afrikaner farmers.
(13) The gendered nature of posts – from pictures of me in underwear to comments about how fertility affects my decision-making – also shows we’ve still a long way to go to be a movement that practises the equality it preaches.
(14) The grace that Reverend Pinckney would preach about in his sermons.
(15) A network of activists linked to Osama bin Laden and other major figures in the new global jihad were active in France, preaching and recruiting.
(16) (Of course, she was also perfectly aware of the feminist content, what it said about the disgusted-attracted-contemptuous male gaze, but she preferred the art to ask the questions, discomfit, not preach.)
(17) They converted and started to insult us, saying we do not believe in the oneness of Allah because of our love for saints.” Every Pakistani knows these preaching, self-righteous conservatives ... but you never expect them to indulge in violence Nadeem Farooq Paracha Like so many others, the Malik family were helped along in their religious journey by the experience of living as guest workers in the oil-rich Arab world.
(18) Rather than talk of nationalisations, Podemos preaches public control and accountability.
(19) Rowan Williams was preaching in the Danish capital as crucial UN climate change talks entered their second and final week.
(20) But even monarchists should recognise that the Queen has survived some four decades of her son’s often eccentric preaching on numerous topics.