English Dictionary

desk

IPA（発音記号）

/dɛsk/

名詞

略語 別表記

A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

日本語の意味

机。文章を書いたり読んだりするために使われ、引き出しが付いていることが多い家具。

She cleared the papers from the old oak desk before opening the ledger.

彼女は帳簿を開く前に、古いオークの机から書類を片付けた。

意味（1）

A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.

意味（2）

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 (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.

意味（3）

A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.

the city desk, the sports desk

意味（4）

Short for mixing desk.

Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk.

desks （ plural ）