(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.
Pulpit
Definition:
(n.) An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.
(n.) The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.
(n.) A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wanted to make a big ideological point, and I had but one weapon in my arsenal: a pulpit that I could use to denounce the very thing that had given me a voice.
(2) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(3) So everything I do from the pulpit comes out of what I did as a librettist."
(4) Here’s how the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News — Exxon’s hometown paper, the morning read of the oil patch— put it in an editorial last week: “With profits to protect, Exxon provided climate-change doubters a bully pulpit they didn’t deserve and gave lawmakers the political cover to delay global action until long after the environmental damage had reached severe levels.
(5) "We are disappointed that he hasn't talked or used his bully pulpit.
(6) This new pope seems to have genuine concern for the most challenged members of society and better still seems to be prepared to use his pulpit to help them.
(7) He used his presidential bully pulpit to help elevate gun control from a fringe issue to a central policy priority for the Democratic party.
(8) And at the Globe theatre in central London on Sunday – even as Catholics were being urged from thousands of pulpits across the country to oppose gay marriage – there was no shortage of same-sex couples ready to heed his encouragement.
(9) An encyclical raises the prospect of speeches on climate change from the pulpit of more than 17,000 Catholic parishes.
(10) It would be disingenuous to use its problems as a bully pulpit for basic income.” He has also highlighted the risk that removing the obligation for those on benefits to look for work might encourage some people to drift into long-term worklessness .
(11) From the start, because it had a preaching pulpit but no church, it was associated with dissenters — as Bunhill Fields later became.
(12) "If he can use his bully pulpit like this I think the American people are going to get it."
(13) The Roman Catholic church provides constancy and many analysts claim Law and Justice will win the election thanks to its support from rural pulpits.
(14) "Even in the church, the priest will announce from the pulpit not to shake hands or touch," he says.
(15) The packed pink-walled church was attentive and welcoming of his message about El Señor, delivered not in the pulpit, but standing just in front of the first pews.
(16) This article deals with a type of pulpit spectacles which have been specially developed for emmetropic presbyopes.
(17) A dedicated fanbase absorb the virtues of a movie from the pulpit – Mission Pictures have close ties with ministries worldwide and provide worship packs to accompany releases – and they won't be shy about spreading the word.
(18) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(19) "Back then, at a time when there was barbed wire outside and police were not at his side, he stood at this pulpit and dared speak truth to power, truth to evil.
(20) I was lucky that my family, although poor, was enlightened enough to know that the hatred preached from the pulpits or espoused in the tabloids, was utter rubbish.